Observing Log for Mike Durkin 11/29/2008 about noon Locust Valley, NY Transparency: 7/10, Seeing ??/5 Temperature: about 30-40 degrees Equipment: Coronado Hydrogen Alpha PST Another chance to do some solar observing. This time I saw 2 noticable prominences. There was also some small filaments in the northern part of the solar disk. After that I tried taking a few pictures with my Nikon Coolpix. Even though I was ablw to get the disk of the sun on the LCD display, I was never able to get the image to focus. A dark shroud or something to cover my head when looking at the display would probably help. 11/23/2008 12:30PM-1:00PM Locust Valley, NY Transparency: 7/10, Seeing 4/5 Temperature: about 30 degrees Equipment: Coronado Hydrogen Alpha PST It was cold, but I havent done any observing in a while and I was itching to do something, so I took out the PST and my camera tripod. There was only one significant prominence to be seen. I looked at the disk for any filaments, but there wasn't anything significant. There were a couple of spots that I thought might have matched up with some sunspots, but when I checked the SOHO site, there weren't any active regions. I guess the sun us still in it's inactive period. Other Log Entries <-- 2007  Jan   Feb  Mar   Apr   May  Jun   Jul  Aug  Sep  Oct  Nov   Dec   2009 -->