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Posted in Astronomy, sun, Uncategorized on Feb 7th, 2010
Super-Sol Sunday! Get it? Ok, my brain froze a little while I was out for yet another weekend doing solar astronomy. It was 26 degrees outside with the wind gusting at about 15 miles per hour as I set up my scope in Farley Field in Marlborough, Ct. After checking Spaceweather.com it looked like a [...]
I was traveling down Route 9 in Middletown the other day enroute to a photo assignment when I spotted a sun halo at about 45 degrees in elevation. This one the frist I have seen a in quite a while. I surmize that there was plenty ice crystals in the air from the blizzard that was [...]
Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography, sun on Jan 31st, 2010
Despite the winter storms of this week, today, the last day of January provided me a nice quick view of the sun. With a new sunspot grouping called AR1043 coming around the limb in the northern hemisphere of the sun, I managed to get some video of it. I will post it as soon as I [...]
Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography, sun on Jan 26th, 2010
In a previous posting I mentioned that I had taken some video of sunspot complexes 1041 & 1042. Here is the result of my efforts with a Meade Electronic Eyepiece and some turbulent atmosphere under some poor seeing conditions. Hey, it was sure nice to get out there and do some solar astronomy in the winter [...]
Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography, Moon, public outreach, sun on Jan 24th, 2010
It was a rare January Saturday afternoon when you can go out and do some comfortable Solar Observing. There was a slight breeze but crystal clear skies as I set up my solar observing setup in Farley Field in Marlborough, Ct. Within minutes I had not one, but two sunspot complexes with in view. Sunpot [...]
Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography, sun on Jan 16th, 2010
A balmy day of 45 degrees left no doubt that this was a good day to do some solar photography. For January, this was a bonus day of observing in the middle of winter. After giving solar observers a great show for the past week or so Sunspot complex 1040 is slowly dissapearing in size [...]
Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography, sun on Dec 20th, 2009
The lure of doing one last solar observing session this year was to great to pass. Sunspot complex 1035 has been making it’s way around the sun for about a week now, and was ready to dissapear around the limb. I had one last chance to do some solar observing this year. The sun was [...]
Posted in Astronomy, astrophotography, sun on Oct 30th, 2009
Over the past 10 days or so Sunspot 1029 made a nice showing to solar observers around the world anxiously waiting for Solar Cycle 24 to get ramped up. Hopefully this is a nice start. This sunspot complex was the first one I observed since July (sunspot 1024). Take a look at the video and [...]
Posted in sun on Sep 5th, 2009
It’s been awhile since we had the nice burst of solar activity in the beginning of the summer. I figured I owed it to Sol that I give it one more look before summer ends. For weeks the disk has been void of anything, and today was no exception. I did manage to get an [...]
Posted in Astronomy, clouds, Meterology, Nature, Science, sun, Travel, weather on Jul 24th, 2009
It was a quick couple of days off from work, but I managed to squeeze in something I always wanted to do. I finally got to do some astronomy from Mt Washington, in New Hampshire. It was two years ago when I had chance to spend four days and three nights at the Mt. Washington Observatory as part of [...]
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