| Observing Location | Chief Dennis L. Devlin Park, Bronx, NY |
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| Observational Period | 1000-1015 EST |
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| Atmospheric Conditions |
| Cloud Cover | Scattered Clouds |
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| Temperature | 21°F |
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| Wind | Gentle Breeze |
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| Humidity | Moderate |
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| Barometric Pressure | 30.06" Hg
Rising |
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| Feels Like | Very Cold
Wind Chill 6°F |
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It doesn’t seem to be as windy as they were predicting and there isn’t much going on in the way of gusting but it is still very cold.
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| Instruments | Brunton 8x21 compact binocular w/Welco gold shade 14 welder's filter - Charlie |
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| Observing Party | Charlie Ridgway
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| Target | Sunspots |
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| Constellation | Aqr |
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| Category | Solar |
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Time
yyyymmdd.hhmm | 20080228.1000 EST |
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| Comments |
Distance
Light Time | 0.991 AU
8m 14s |
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| Angular Size | 32' 20.7" |
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| Altitude | 33.5° |
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Heliographic Latitude
(B0) | -7.21° |
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Heliographic Longitude
(L0) | 269.18° |
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Parallactic Angle
(P) | -21.26° |
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Carrington rotation number
(CR) | 2067 |
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Space Weather indicates that Group 983 is still there but when I look at the high resolution SoHo image all I see is a little bit of plage. I don’t see anything in my binocular.
| | Groups | Spots | R |
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| North | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| South | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| R = (Groups * 10) + Spots) |
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There was lots of news yesterday on the planned return to the lunar surface.
- New Lunar Rover concept vehicle
NASA graphic
- Moon Robot
NASA graphic
- Lunar Landing Site
NASA graphic
- Lunar Impact Mission
NASA graphic
My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants.
The National Geographic society has held a contest to devise a mnemonic to help remember the order of the current 11 planets.
Space.com says that a 10-year-old girl has won the contest but they aren't saying what the mnemonic is. I did find it on a
blog, however.
