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Martin Y
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Re: Astronomy and Space

Post by Martin Y » Tue Aug 13, 2024 10:53 am

Now I'm trying to remember when it was we showed the kids an impressive display of sunspots. The morning sun just happened to be shining through the stairs landing window onto the white-painted kitchen door about 5m away, so I stood at the window holding the binoculars (one lens capped), projecting the sun's image onto the door. I think the kids were almost as impressed at the sight as we were. Eeh, must have been 15+ years ago.

Daughter and I were sitting out in the garden last night watching Perseid meteors (and at one point rather excruciatingly pretending neither of us could hear the neighbours having noisy sex) and I did think the light pollution/haze seemed to come and go rather quickly; much faster than light cloud would pass over. I failed to put two and two together and realise it was probably the aurora.

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Re: Astronomy and Space

Post by Gfamily » Tue Aug 13, 2024 1:01 pm

Martin Y wrote:
Tue Aug 13, 2024 10:53 am
Now I'm trying to remember when it was we showed the kids an impressive display of sunspots. The morning sun just happened to be shining through the stairs landing window onto the white-painted kitchen door about 5m away, so I stood at the window holding the binoculars (one lens capped), projecting the sun's image onto the door. I think the kids were almost as impressed at the sight as we were. Eeh, must have been 15+ years ago.
I read that there were over 200 sunspots on the visible face of the sun over the weekend. This is the most there has been for over 20 years.
Given that the solar sunspot cycle is about 11 years, it would most likely to have been nearer 20 than 15 years.
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Re: Astronomy and Space

Post by Gfamily » Fri Aug 30, 2024 10:06 pm

My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!

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