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The weather had been cloudy for a while. It cleared enough, for a brief period, to allow me to see three sunspots through my binoculars and filters....
There was some thin cloud around but the Sun showed two large sunspots to my binoculars and filters. It doesn’t sound much but felt great after a few...
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Certainly quieter.
Is it the calm before the storm?
I hope to get some clearer skies with a more active Sun and get my Mak and DSLR on it.
There were some breaks in the cloud, so I had a look at the Sun with my binoculars and filters. The Sun was a lot quieter, showing just two sunspots,...
sunspots! This was quite remarkable and showed that, whilst my Mak/DSLR combination was the best for recording sunspots that computer-based drawings...
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Hello again Philip. Another nice full Solar disc drawing from you again. And you caught the two large active region groups AR 3372 and AR 3373 in...
There was enough clear sky to see the Sun through my binoculars and filters. Naturally, it would have been better to have my Mak and DSLR at work but...
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Hi Philip. I am glad that you got the opportunity to get some solar viewing even with just the binoculars and not the Mak telescope. Thanks for...
With a bad back and moving cloud, interspersed with rain, I was lucky to see anything at all. Fortunately, having large (15x70) binoculars and solar...
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