All observing logs tagged with Sunspot 900
2006-07-20
Location: | Billingborough (South Lincolnshire, UK) |
From: | 2006-07-20 14:35 UT |
To: | 2006-07-20 14:40 UT |
Equipment: |
Solarscope
|
Temperature: | 29.5°C ... |
Dew Point: | 17.3°C ... |
Humidity: | 48% ... |
Wind Speed: | 0.6mph ... |
Wind Dir: | West North West ... |
Pressure: | 1013.0hPa ... |
Notes: |
Hot and sticky day that had been mostly overcast. During the afternoon the cloud started to clear a little but the skies were still very hazy. Took the Solarscope out to do a sunspot count. |
Sun
From: | 2006-07-20 14:35 UT |
To: | 2006-07-20 14:40 UT |
No spots were visible on the Sun today. All I could see was some slight darkening around where active area 900 should have been. |
2006-07-19
Location: | Billingborough (South Lincolnshire, UK) |
From: | 2006-07-19 12:50 UT |
To: | 2006-07-19 12:55 UT |
Equipment: |
Solarscope
|
Temperature: | 29.4°C ... |
Dew Point: | 14.0°C ... |
Humidity: | 39% ... |
Wind Speed: | 4.0mph ... |
Wind Dir: | East South East ... |
Pressure: | 1014.5hPa ... |
Notes: |
Hot clear and very breezy day. Took the Solarscope out to do a sunspot count. |
Sun
From: | 2006-07-19 12:50 UT |
To: | 2006-07-19 12:55 UT |
It took me quite a while to find active area 900 today — at first I thought it had totally disappeared. However, after a short while I managed to find it but all of the spots appeared to have faded a lot. I could just about count 5 spots in the area. |
2006-07-18
Location: | Billingborough (South Lincolnshire, UK) |
From: | 2006-07-18 12:25 UT |
To: | 2006-07-18 12:30 UT |
Equipment: |
Solarscope
|
Temperature: | 29.8°C ... |
Dew Point: | 12.1°C ... |
Humidity: | 34% ... |
Wind Speed: | Calm ... |
Pressure: | 1019.7hPa ... |
Notes: |
Hot, calm and clear day. Took the Solarscope out to do a sunspot count. |
Sun
From: | 2006-07-18 12:25 UT |
To: | 2006-07-18 12:30 UT |
Active area 900 was still visible I could only count 4 spots today (down 1 from yesterday. The whole group also seems to appear like it's faded a little when compared to yesterday. |
2006-07-17
Location: | Billingborough (South Lincolnshire, UK) |
From: | 2006-07-17 12:35 UT |
To: | 2006-07-17 12:40 UT |
Equipment: |
Solarscope
|
Temperature: | 29.9°C ... |
Dew Point: | 13.1°C ... |
Humidity: | 36% ... |
Wind Speed: | 1.1mph ... |
Wind Dir: | East North East ... |
Pressure: | 1023.2hPa ... |
Notes: |
Very warm and clear day, pretty much no cloud around at all. Took the Solarscope out to do a sunspot count. |
Sun
From: | 2006-07-17 12:35 UT |
To: | 2006-07-17 12:40 UT |
Active area 900 was still visible and, just like yesterday, I could count 5 spots in the area. Two of the spots appeared slightly darker than yesterday's observation. |
2006-07-16
Location: | Billingborough (South Lincolnshire, UK) |
From: | 2006-07-16 09:00 UT |
To: | 2006-07-16 10:30 UT |
Equipment: | Naked Eye |
Notes: |
Sunny morning with quite a bit of cirrus cloud about. Managed to observe a partial halo around the Sun for the second time during the weekend. |
Partial solar halo
From: | 2006-07-16 09:00 UT |
To: | 2006-07-16 10:30 UT |
At around 09:00 UT I initially noticed a bright and colourful partial halo around the Sun. I grabbed my mobile phone and, with the camera in it, took this image: Over the course of the next 90 minutes or so the cirrus cloud seemed to get thicker and spread out more. During this time the halo appeared to lose colour but also to grow in size: |
Location: | Billingborough (South Lincolnshire, UK) |
From: | 2006-07-16 12:00 UT |
To: | 2006-07-16 12:05 UT |
Equipment: |
Solarscope
|
Temperature: | 25.8°C ... |
Dew Point: | 13.9°C ... |
Humidity: | 48% ... |
Wind Speed: | Calm ... |
Pressure: | 1026.2hPa ... |
Notes: |
The cloud from earlier had cleared so I took the Solarscope out to do a quick sunspot count. |
Sun
From: | 2006-07-16 12:00 UT |
To: | 2006-07-16 12:05 UT |
After a little bit of effort I noticed that active area 900 was visible. Within it I managed to count 5 spots. All were very small. |