Sunspot data for 8 December 2022 of period 2022Q4: (PREV DAY - NEXT DAY)

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Today we had about 90% cumuli, plenty of which with hail and rain. In between I was able to do some observations. Transparency was reasonable, but the scintillation monitor reported mediocre seeing on average. I made the following observation:
Observation date/time:   08 December 12:18 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): 0.230ms
Seeing (SSSMon):         3.0-3.5" (1.5" at best)

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Total number of sunspots:   28

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