2005-11-19
| Location: | Billingborough (South Lincolnshire, UK) |
| From: | 2005-11-19 12:28 UT |
| To: | 2005-11-19 12:44 UT |
| Equipment: | Naked Eye Solarscope |
| Temperature: | 4.0°C |
| Humidity: | 83% |
| Notes: |
Cold, rather hazy day. No cloud visible. Decided to have a look at the Sun (5th day in a row) with the naked eye and with the Solarscope to see how sunspot 822 was progressing. |
Sunspot 822 with naked eye
| Time: | 2005-11-19 12:28 UT |
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Like yesterday, sunspot 822 was immediately visible — no effort was required to find it. I've seen no obvious change in it, with the naked eye, over the past few days. |
Sun with Solarscope
| From: | 2005-11-19 12:34 UT |
| To: | 2005-11-19 12:44 UT |
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With the Solarscope I could see a new, small, pair of spots some distance from 822. I checked on SpaceWeather.com but couldn't see any mention of them (although the image being displayed at the time was from yesterday) so I don't know if they have an ID. Subsequent checking showed that they'd been given the number 823. Sunspot 822 hadn't greatly changed a whole lot from the previous day. Did the following sketch:
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