Monday, May 31, 2010

31 May 2010

This month has not been a good astronomy month.

Sunspots Observed

I have checked on the Internet a few times this month to see if there were any sunspots up there big enough for me to see but there haven't been whenever I checked. I don't have a sense of how active the sun was this month and I only got out to look at it once all month and wasn't able to find the spots I knew were there that day.

Observing Hours for the Year 2010

 DayNightTotal
HoursDaysAvgHoursDaysAvgHoursDaysAvg
Jan0.0000.0012.5081.5612.2081.56
Feb2.2530.753.7550.756.0080.75
Mar8.2561.3813.7591.5322.00121.83
Apr0.7530.2511.2533.7512.0062.00
May4.2522.130.0000.004.2522.13
TOTAL15.50141.1141.25251.6556.75361.58

The one time I got out to see stars other than the Sun was an event that started before sunset and was logged as a daytime event although it was probably about half-and-half.