8 June 2005

Observing Location	Parkchester South Condominium oval, The Bronx, NY
Observational Period	1750-1855 EDT
Atmospheric Conditions	Hazy, Hot and Humid. The temperature was near 90º again today. I could see the haze lit up in front of the sun while I was making my observations. When I got done dinner there were some thin stratus clouds in the area. Transparency fair Seeing good
Instruments	Canon 15x50 Image Stabilized binoculars with Baader AstroSolar filter film - Charlie
Observing Party	Charlie Ridgway

Target	Sunspots
Constellation	Tau
Category	Solar
Time	8Jun05; 1750 EDT
Comments	Group 776 continues to develop and I think 775 may be a little bigger today also. SpaceWeather.com says 776 may be a solar flare threat soon. The SOHO image shows two sunspots still there for group 774 but they are too small for me to detect them with hand held binoculars. 772 This southern hemisphere group is moving to the leading limb and will soon start to exhibit foreshortening. It is the only group that had a complete void ring around it. 773 The trailing spot of this group has a penumbra around it. It is near the meridian in the southern hemisphere. 775 I could detect a bit of a void around the leading edge of the group but not on the side closer to the limb where granularity is supposed to be more easily observed. The larger of the two spots is surrounded by a penumbra and the smaller spot is sitting on the edge of that penumbra. 776 This is still a complex group. The leading spots are large and surrounded by a penumbra. The trailing spots appear to be more like penumbra than spots. The trailing spots were surrounded by a void ring but I did not detect one around the leading spots I forgot to label east again. It is to the left as usual.   Groups Spots R Northern Hemisphere 1 2 12 Southern Hemisphere 3 8 38 Total 4 10 50 NOAA Boulder Sunspot Number 94 R = 2 * Groups + Spots