Glad to see there are few more observers out there. What I saw were two
groups moving from north to south. Earlier there were three groups. But
one group rotated out of view. I'm more of a deep sky observer and
seeing the sun is a bit of a new experience. I bought a small solar
scope to observe the eclipse. It was quite fascinating to see it happen
where the sun appeared as large as an apple in the eyepiece.
Now that I have the little solar scope it's kind of interesting to see
spots with my own eyes. I'm hoping this is, in fact, the beginning of
cycle 25. The doldrums on 20 and 17 and a bit depressing.
Oddly enough, despite the low activity, I've been quite amazed at the
number of good Q's I've made on 20 with the KX2. Seem to get a lot of
5x5 to 5x7 reports along with the comment "I can't believe you're only
running 10 watts into a dipole". Of course the dipole is about 8300' ASL
or about 50' above average terrain which is 8250' in elevation. That
seems to be my QRP ace-in-the-hole.
73 - actually 72! -- Viva la QRP
Doug -- K0DXV
On 8/25/2017 6:17 AM, Tommy wrote:
Hi Fred,
Yup, I did the Sunspot counts daily for the AAVSO for 8 years a
long time ago. It was nice to see a few groups during the eclipse! The
"K" factor is an individual observer's factor that takes account of
experience of the observer. See:
https://www.aavso.org/dances-wolfs-short-history-sunspot-indices
73!
Tom - KB2SMS
KX2 #01927
On 08/24/2017 11:11 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
FWIW: Counting sunspots is a fairly arcane diversion. The generally
accepted [although by no means universally] is the Wolf Number,
Wn=k(10g+s), where g denotes the number of groups [sunspots tend to
come in groups, not always individually discernible], s denotes the
number of individual spots, again somewhat hard to discern, and k is
an "observatory factor", which appears to be much like Einstein's
Cosmological Constant, and can take on any value that makes the data
work as you wish it to. If you see spots, and they are at high solar
latitudes, this augurs well, they may be Cycle 25. If they're on the
solar equator, probably just part of Cycle 24.
All that said, right now there aren't very many G's or S's, and k
could be zero for all we know. I am currently at the point where
living to the Cycle 25 maximum is an immediate goal. [:-)
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 8/24/2017 3:29 PM, Doug Person wrote:
Sadly, I can only see 3 sunspots today. Down from 6 at the beginning
of the week.
Doug -- K0DXV
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