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So awesome! Enjoy. I don't see the most recent one you picked up. Looks like an observatory there. Catch any meteors?
I see much more meteors offshore at nite away from lights. Best to just lay down and use your eyes in a dark sky. I buy and sell scopes as a hobby since i was a kid. Have had over 230 scopes. So they come and go. Here are the two newest scopes and i also just got anther one and another on the way.
Lunt makes a nice 50 and 60mm solar scope. They are not cheap but show plenty of surface detail.
I can tell ya the surface of the sun is dead boring in white light at this time. Not one spot or limb shading.
That...is...cool... Keep us posted! Always cool how far back we been keep track of sun spots. I can just picture them way back in the past with telescopes waiting to see those spots..
Check it out! The sun has been blank for 61% this year!
Here's a nice link that keeps track of it.. I'm not as interested as where we are for the lows right now as I am where we actually peaked! (circled).. So much lower than any other decade for past 100yrs.
Since there is a lag time with the affects on Earth I just wonder if the Midwest & Northeast U.S is experiencing results from that low peak. I'm never one to put my finger on 1 thing... Weather and Climate is a marriage of so many factors out there including a PV that splits easier because of a warmer Arctic.
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