On Tuesday June 2nd I was working on my 6″ F5 reflector that is set up for solar viewing. I added a electronic focuser so I could focus high power EP’s aqnd eliminate the shakes. I decided to test it and set it up to view the Sun. To my surprise there appeared to be two groups of two spots in the EP. Due to the long current run of no spots at solar minimum, I thought I had some dust particles on the EP. To check I lossen the the thumb screw and rotated the EP. The spots remained stationary. I took the power from 35X up to 100X and sure enough there were two binary spots with some smaller pores. I quickly logged on to the SOHO site to verify my sighting. It was confirmed. If you have solar filters get out and view this nice complex spot system.
JJ
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