Sunspot data for 27 February 2024 of period 2024Q1: (PREV DAY - NEXT DAY)

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Today we started out with about 25% cumuli and it soon cleared to only light cirrus and some contrials. By the time I was able to observe the transparency had deteriorated and turned to very poor. The scintillation monitor reported good seeing on average. I made the following observation:
Observation date/time:   27 February 2024 15:38 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 (341mm distance, 80mm diameter)
Reference:               Earth's rotation axis
Exposure (transparency): 4.600ms (using 82nm bandwidth green filter)
Seeing (SSSMon):         2.0-3.0" (1.2" at best)

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Total number of sunspots:  19

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