The Dutch Observatory

The Astronomical League’s Analemma Program. After taking measurements for a year, I finished the project in April, and did submit my results after I completed the write up, produced the graphs, and made the calculations.  The purpose of the project is to calculate, based only on the data you collected, the latitude of where you are, the tilt of the Earth, as well as the eccentricity of the orbit of our Earth around the Sun. On June 7th I was informed that I had met the requirements for the project. But not for the first time, the AL managed to spell my name incorrect on the certificate, so today I did receive the corrected version and I can close the book on this project.

Clear skies this morning for a while with good seeing.  Solar Activity is Medium with 8 C-class flares in the last two days.  We have three regions with a total area of 720 millionths and the spot count for today is 28.  AR2567 has grown to 390 millionths and is a Dki on the McIntosh scale.  Full disk images today and close up in the three wavelengths of AR2565, 67.