19 October 2008

If the black band of the wolly caterpiller is broad in autumn it will be a severe winter.

Observing Location	PKR
Observational Period	1200-1215 EDT
Atmospheric Conditions	Cloud Cover Scattered Clouds Temperature 51° F Wind Light Breeze Humidity Moderate Barometric Pressure 30.36" Hg Rising Feels Like Cool There was a lot of moderate opacity stratus on the southern horizon. Transparency Good Seeing I
Instruments	Brunton 8x21 compact binocular w/Welco gold shade 14 welder's filter - Charlie
Observing Party	Charlie Ridgway

Target Sunspots Constellation Vir Category Solar Time yyyymmdd.hhmm 20081019.1200 EDT Comments Distance Light Time 0.996 AU 8m 17s Angular Size 32' 10.4" Altitude 38.8° Heliographic Latitude (B0) 5.49° Heliographic Longitude (L0) 56.95° Parallactic Angle (P) 25.93° Carrington rotation number (CR) 2075 Nothing Seen There is nothing showing in the SOHO images but Active Region Explorer is still showing 1006 as a pore near the NW limb.   Groups Spots R North 0 0 0 South 0 0 0 Total 0 0 0 R = (Groups * 10) + Spots)

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NASA is going to move Atlantis back to the VAB tomorrow, where it will wait for a chance to launch it for the HST repair mission. I

On Wednesday, 14Oct08, NASA got HST reconfigured to transmit data again and began bringing the science instruments online on Thursday, 16Oct08. During the end of that process they experienced several anomalies and everything was put into safe mode where it remains while they try to figure out what happened.