Comments on: Sky this Week http://www.raben.com/weblog/2007/06/24/sky-this-week-5/ Occasional observations about astronomy, astrophotography, and software Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:09:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Vern http://www.raben.com/weblog/2007/06/24/sky-this-week-5/#comment-20974 Vern Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:45:05 +0000 http://www.raben.com/weblog/2007/06/24/sky-this-week-5/#comment-20974 Hey Andrew, No we're socked in here with clouds too -- probably for the rest of the week. The sun rotates just a bit over 13 degrees a day. I'd guess its about 75 or 80 E right now. It should be near mid disk in 5 to 6 days. Regions can always disperse and in disappear in just a few days. Hopefully, we'll be able to get some images before then. Hey Andrew,

No we’re socked in here with clouds too — probably for the rest of the week. The sun rotates just a bit over 13 degrees a day. I’d guess its about 75 or 80 E right now. It should be near mid disk in 5 to 6 days. Regions can always disperse and in disappear in just a few days. Hopefully, we’ll be able to get some images before then.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.raben.com/weblog/2007/06/24/sky-this-week-5/#comment-20961 Andrew Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:23:42 +0000 http://www.raben.com/weblog/2007/06/24/sky-this-week-5/#comment-20961 Hi Vern,Yeah the moon has a habit of messing with observing but,then again it makes a nice target to look at!.Hope you have the nice skies to see the new sunspot just coming around the limb.Looks to be a pretty big one.Perhaps 2 Earth sizes?!.We are going to have hazy hot and humid weather for the next few days.So maybe Friday it will still be intact. Hi Vern,Yeah the moon has a habit of messing with observing but,then again it makes a nice target to look at!.Hope you have the nice skies to see the new sunspot just coming around the limb.Looks to be a pretty big one.Perhaps 2 Earth sizes?!.We are going to have hazy hot and humid weather for the next few days.So maybe Friday it will still be intact.

]]>