This morning I finished reading
1634: The Galileo Affair, by Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis. I saw this book, which is supposed to be an alternative history, one day when I was browsing Barnes & Nobles and subsequently borrowed it from the library thinking I would learn more about Galileo’s trial by the Inquisition. After reading over 500 pages I finally came to the meat of the Galileo stuff. The trial is covered in eight pages and a good part of that is the intrigues of the Committee of Correspondence who are there to spring Galileo. At nearly 700 pages it is a longer book than I like and ended up not being what I was hoping for. I also jumped into the middle of the story since this is the third book in the Ring of Fire series so I was playing catch up all the way.
| Observing Location | PSC |
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| Observational Period | 1100-1115 EDT |
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| Atmospheric Conditions |
| Cloud Cover | Overcast |
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| Temperature | ~70°F |
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| Wind | Light Breeze |
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| Humidity | Moderate |
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| Feels Like | Muggy |
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I was trying to observe through thin spots in the cloud so it took a while for a thin enough spot to pass by that I could see the spots.
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| Instruments | Canon 15x50 IS binocular w/Baader AstroSolar filter film - Charlie |
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| Observing Party | Charlie Ridgway
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| Target | Sunspots |
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| Constellation | Ari |
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| Category | Solar |
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Time
yyyymmdd.hhmm | 20070512.1100 EDT |
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| Comments |
Distance
Light Time | 1.010186 AU
8ms |
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| Angular Size | 31'42.9" |
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| Altitude | 57.4° |
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Heliographic Latitude
(B0) | -2.98° |
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Heliographic Longitude
(L0) | 163.37° |
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Position Angle
(P) | -21.71° |
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Carrington rotation number
(CR) | 2056 |
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Conditions are too poor to do anything other than locate the group.
| | Groups | Spots | R |
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| North | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| South | 1 | 2 | 12 |
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| Total | 1 | 2 | 12 |
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| R = (Groups * 10) + Spots) |
- Group 955
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| Heliographic Latitude | -11° |
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| Heliographic Longitude | 192° |
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Carrington rotation number
(CR) | 2056 |
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| Mcintosh System | Bxo |
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I could see two small spots and there may have been some even smaller spots behind the main spot but it was only a hint of something through the moving clouds and may not have been anything at all.
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