2006-10-31
| Location: | Billingborough (South Lincolnshire, UK) |
| From: | 2006-10-31 15:30 UT |
| To: | 2006-10-31 15:35 UT |
| Equipment: |
Solarscope
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| Temperature: | 11.1°C ... |
| Dew Point: | 6.2°C ... |
| Humidity: | 72% ... |
| Wind Speed: | 2.9mph ... |
| Wind Dir: | North West ... |
| Pressure: | 1005.5hPa ... |
| Notes: |
Overcast and stormy for most of the day but started to clear a little into the late afternoon. While I had the chance I took the Solarscope out to do a quick sunspot count. |
Sun
| From: | 2006-10-31 15:30 UT |
| To: | 2006-10-31 15:35 UT |
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Active area 921 had developed quite a bit and looked a lot stronger than yesterday. I counted 5 sunspots, all quite small. Close by I could also see another single spot but I wasn't sure if this was in a separate active area or was part of 921. Checking later it turned out that it was part of new active area 922. |
| Location: | Billingborough (South Lincolnshire, UK) |
| From: | 2006-10-31 19:15 UT |
| To: | 2006-10-31 19:20 UT |
| Equipment: | 7x50 Binoculars |
| Temperature: | 7.6°C ... |
| Dew Point: | 1.6°C ... |
| Humidity: | 66% ... |
| Wind Speed: | 6.5mph ... |
| Wind Dir: | North West ... |
| Pressure: | 1012.5hPa ... |
| Notes: |
Reasonably clear evening, if a little hazy. The view of the sky was made worse by a 61% waxing Moon. |
Comet M4 Swan
| From: | 2006-10-31 19:15 UT |
| To: | 2006-10-31 19:20 UT |
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Annoyingly I didn't have the available time to do a proper observation of comet Swan so I quickly grabbed by 7x50 binoculars and went outside for a few minutes to see if I could still find it.
I found it almost right away, a small fuzzy patch just off the
bottom left hand corner of the Keystone in
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