{"id":753,"date":"2012-01-01T20:40:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T20:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astronotes.offworldventures.com\/?p=753"},"modified":"2012-09-02T18:55:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T18:55:02","slug":"the-sun-january-1-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/astronotes.offworldventures.com\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"The Sun January 1, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun on January 1, 2012, as seen through the 50 mm f\/4 Stellarvue finderscope mounted on the 150 mm reflector telescope that I use for doing visual sunspot counts. The image was acquired using a humble Meade Lunar Planetary Imager (LPI) with an inexpensive black polymer filter across the main lens of the finderscope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/astronotes.offworldventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sun_K3CCD-0001_20120101_123402_ST60_web1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-754 aligncenter\" title=\"Sun_K3CCD-0001_20120101_123402_ST60_web1\" src=\"http:\/\/astronotes.offworldventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sun_K3CCD-0001_20120101_123402_ST60_web1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On this day, the seeing was quite poor with high cirrus clouds passing across the face of the Sun.\u00a0 In any event, the day\u2019s relative sunspot number by visual count (through the 150 mm scope) was 43.\u00a0 This image shows several small sunspot groups.\u00a0 The larger telescope that I used to visually count\u00a0 sunspots was able to show many individual sunspots within each group.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Image &amp; Equipment Details<\/span>:<br \/>\n1 January 2012<br \/>\n18:34:02 UT<br \/>\nStellarvue 50 mm f\/4 Finderscope<br \/>\nRainbow Symphony Black Polymer Solar Filter<br \/>\nMeade LPI 60 frames<br \/>\nSeeing poor (through high cirrus clouds)<br \/>\nK3CCD_0001_20120101_123402_ST60_web1.jpg<br \/>\nImage captured using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pk3.org\/Astro\/index.htm?k3ccdtools.htm\" target=\"_blank\">K3CCDTools<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sun on January 1, 2012, as seen through the 50 mm f\/4 Stellarvue finderscope mounted on the 150 mm reflector telescope that I use for doing visual sunspot counts. The image was acquired using a humble Meade Lunar Planetary Imager (LPI) with an inexpensive black polymer filter across the main lens of the finderscope. On this day, the seeing was quite poor with high cirrus clouds passing across the face of the Sun.\u00a0 In any event, the day\u2019s relative sunspot number by visual count (through the 150 mm scope) was 43.\u00a0 This image shows several small sunspot groups.\u00a0 The larger telescope that I used to visually count\u00a0 sunspots was able to show many individual sunspots within each group. Image &amp; Equipment Details: 1 January 2012 18:34:02 UT Stellarvue 50 mm f\/4 Finderscope Rainbow Symphony Black Polymer Solar Filter Meade LPI 60 frames Seeing poor (through high cirrus clouds) K3CCD_0001_20120101_123402_ST60_web1.jpg Image captured using K3CCDTools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/astronotes.offworldventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/astronotes.offworldventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/astronotes.offworldventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astronotes.offworldventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astronotes.offworldventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/astronotes.offworldventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"http:\/\/astronotes.offworldventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/astronotes.offworldventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astronotes.offworldventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/astronotes.offworldventures.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}