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SOLAR PHOTOGRAPHY | March 2016……

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Using a alpha filter you can see the sunspots..
Using a alpha filter you can see the sunspots..

 

Early morning March  was weathered with clumps of clouds started to roam nomadically across the Auckland morning skies landscape… As during the morning in setting up the scope for solar viewing, with a temporary modifying by  removing the finder scope for just in case to stop people of looking through them as a very important precaution..  Then applying the alpha fitter in front of the Telescope then taping with duct tape to seal off any light leakage from the sun entering ..

Using the Mead LX200 eight inch, maneuvering it viewing position in directly to the sun… And finding that ambered disc glow in the light funnel of the telescope in the lens in which you knowing have the sun in view filtered safely then locking in the view….

The interesting parts of the sun, is always the sunspots, there was a few of them across the sun, they’re an interesting anomaly on the sun’s Photo sphere in which the anomaly’s temperature is reduced in compare to the surroundings in due to the concentrations of the magnetic field flux that inhibit  convention on the photo sphere….in which looking on that day there was a dozen string of sunspots tracing from the lower hemisphere left to the direction of the equator of the sun in various sizes much larger than the planet Earth….

AUCKLAND | Lunar Eclipse 2015- April on a clear night…!

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During the months of early April Auckland, New Zealand, of between the late night heading to the early parts of the morning of fourth to the Fifth of April… The moon Luna blushed with red, as Earth cast its shadow onto the Moon…  as during the very late night entering into midnight you could see Earth’s shadow casting as seen in the Backyard of the ” Stardome- Auckland Observatory “.. also with the Edith Blackwell Winstone Telescope… . As it held the observation event also with online stream with the other stream observation from “Griffith Observatory” from Los Angeles in conjunction with “Slooh Observatory”…

During that night onwards till early hours in the morning, with the crowds of Audiences from the Planetarium shows gathered around, also other’s whom just Drop by to view the never seen again event in that moment of time … the crowds assemble in viewing the event from weather wise surprising clear weather unlike the previous that had been cloudy in the past as the presenters directed of what they’ve seen in the Planetarium into the real night sky.. Then directed the crowds into view of the Telescopes operated by the wonderful volunteers whom braved the nightly morning cold..

 

SLIDESHOW | that last southerly summery blue sky – 2014

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At the moment over here in Auckland, we just headed into autumn… the hours duration of daylight are noticeable with each passing week heading into the next season… as heading into the next season the constellations in the night sky are noticeable aswell too into its folding.. of fall.

This month coming up to autumn, it’s been warmly dry with humid …. But with an oncoming cyclone Lusi that ruffled rained on up mostly of the North Island in New Zealand,  in a way it did sort of made the hay colour pastures a little greener… once you seen the grassy colours  on One tree Hill…. Not so postcard…as it was hay colored..

Is it partly cloudy yet…?

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I’ve try this weather app for quite some time now, it’s really easy to use due to the way how it’s isographically presented. It’s very simple to understand the infromationally digested. The iOS App is design in a dial clock format which makes it swiftly to see what’s going on in your current weather situation.

It’s present the day and night in either a twelve, twenty four or a whole week’s worth of weather assumption prediction forecast. In which using versus the is Device Weather App, which shows limited data of what’s going on throughout the whole day or week, with Partly Cloudy it show me the duration of the incoming rainfall precipitation, it’s density or intenseness, which is good if you decide to avoid putting laundry on the backdoor clothes hanger, then you wonder what’s a clothes hanger…? In where you could use conventionally a clothes dryer after washing.

If you into farming or sailing this will show you interesting wind force by the intensely of wind measure in Beaufort wind force scale, given farming this will determine how much spread of irrigation of spread of water spray is require to maximized . it gives you the current temperature readings in also in highs and lows, and also displayed on the clock like grid showing the different degrees of temperature thought colour. In real time it shows the current timing, on the current day, with this mind you could add different locations of cities so see what the weather , current, or a week worth, so you judge what to wardrobe when you travelling or adventuring.

like to know more about Partly Cloudly app is made in German, by Raufeir, also its source of data is gathered from Norwegian Meteorological Institute also from the Open weather map.

The Crescent Moon.

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Have you ever wondered why there’s a crescent Moon. which on some nights it looks like the moon is blinking right back you like this 😉 !  while on some night it’s looks like a Pac Man chasing after a Planet naming Venus on some seasonal nights in the Southern Hemisphere, trying to out run some Ghosties!, or is it some big smile 🙂  that trying to cheer you up at night sideways.

You’ve been wondering how does Crescent, forms on the  Moon?  They’re  form when most of the Earth shadow overcast onwards to the most coverage surface area of the luna surface giving a sliver of light. This happens in different paths in conjuction with the Sun, Earth and the Moon. 

Best times to observations of cresecent are in the early and the later week quarters durations of the of the month, the times of  observing a smiling moon is after a New Moon, and slowly right after a full Moon.

So when you look up in the night sky at the moon, you could be mistaken that you’re in Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland having  The Cheshire Cat leading you to the way of Mad hatters tea party, or look up knowing the moon is giving you a smile, cheering you up after a hard weeks work!

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