Sunspot data for 27 May 2023 of period 2023Q2: (PREV DAY - NEXT DAY)

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Today started out with about 80% cumuli, but it soon cleared to less than 5% cumuli. Transparency was good, but the scintillation monitor reported very poor seeing on average. I made the following observation:
Observation date/time:   27 May 2023 09:38 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 (349mm distance, 80mm diameter)
Reference:               Earth's rotation axis
Exposure (transparency): 0.500ms (using 82nm bandwidth green filter)
Seeing (SSSMon):         7.0"-7.5" (4.5" at best)

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Total number of sunspots:   26

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