Sunspot data for 16 March 2022 of period 2022Q1: (PREV DAY - NEXT DAY)

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Today we started out grey again, then it cleared completely for an hour or so before 90% stratocumuli started drifting in. Transparency was good, seeing was reported reasonable by the scintillation monitor but had some long period undulations. I made the following observation:
Observation date/time:   16 March 09:55 UTC
Telescope:               GTT60 (Galileo Type Telescope)
Focal length:            1490mm (plano convex singlet)
Aperture:                60mm
Stop:                    30mm
Eyepiece:                -75mm (plano concave singlet, 24mm aperture)
Observation type:        projection (340mm distance, 80mm diameter)
Reference:               Earth's rotation axis
Exposure (transparency): 0.210ms
Seeing (SSSMon):         3.0-3.5"

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Total number of sunspots:   13

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