31 March 2012

EarthHour.org graphic

I went out to Times Square tonight to see it go dark for Earth Hour. I might as well have stayed home since, with a few notable exceptions, nobody turned their lights off. After a half hour of standing there with no further change I decided to walk around Mid-Town to see of other illuminated venues had shut their lights off and found the trend continued. Once I get all my images into a web page a link will appear here.

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March observing

Sunspots

The blue and green traces are my R and running MDS and the yellow and red are the provisional international numbers. Unfortunately Numbers is very inconsistent in the way it deals with charts in general and with missing values in particular. With no difference in the way the base data is recorded or the way the chart is structured it has recorded most of my days without observing as having an R of 0 while this month it did not place a point for dates with null values.

Observing Hours for the Year 2012

	Day			Night			Total
	Hours	Days	Avg	Hours	Days	Avg	Hours	Days	Avg
Jan	0.00	0	0.00	1.00	1	1.00	1.00	1	1.00
Feb	6.75	6	1.13	13.75	6	2.29	20.50	9	2.28
Mar	4.75	12	0.40	14.25	7	2.04	19.00	14	1.36
TOTAL	11.50	18	0.64	29.00	14	2.07	40.50	24	1.69

	Days With Observing	Time Spent Observing
Jan12	3.23%	0.13%
Feb12	31.03%	2.95%
Mar12	45.16%	2.55%
2012 To Date	26.37%	2.85%