I arrived early for the Sun alignment to take some measurements. I has already checked my SoHo app and knew that there is a sunspot group in the NW quadrant of the Sun which is supposed to be growing rapidly but is probably still too small for me to see with my 8x hand held binocular but I gave it a try anyway. I didn't see anything through just the welders glass so gave it a try with the glass Helsinki in front of the binocular. I wasn't able to get ten sun into sharp focus. I suspect that there are two many air/glass boundary transitions for this system to work well.
| | 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) |
The Sun Triangle points to approximately 240° magnetic. I tried laying my iPad and compass along the edge of the pedestal but, as I suspected there would be, there appears to be a ferrous framework within the Triangle that is sheathed in a shiny metallic skin and I can't get compass readings there.
Planetarium says the Sun will be at azimuth 180° magnetic at 1241 EDT. At 1242 EDT I measured it's azimuth to be about 186° magnetic.
The alignment appeared to have occurred at about 1257 EDT but I can't be sure of that because one of the local Druids had to stand under the point of the Triangle where he was casting a shadow where the shadow of the Triangle's point should have been. And he was not looking either up the edge of the Triangle or back at it's shadow.
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