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Other (Other, est. mag 6.0, est. to be in Corona Australis)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 50-mm binoculars Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: light Transparency: fair Seeing: fair
Time: Sun Jul 24 02:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1266
This Evening, my friends, Mike Dzubaty, Steve Borer and I tried to observe the Southern Crown from Connecticut. The Southern Crown, also known as Corona Australis, is located below Sagittarius. From our perch at 41 degrees north latitude, we were not able to see the Southern Crown with our naked eyes. However, we could easily see The Southern Crown with our binoculars. In binoculars the Southern Crown looks like the Northern Crown's twin. I kept scanning both Crowns with my binoculars. Earlier, during daylight, we observed the sun with a hydogen alfa solar scope. On one side of the sun, there was a very large twisted filiment that extended rather far out from the sun. There were about three other small flares also coming out from the sun. In white light, I was only able to see one small sunspot.
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