Sunspot data for 1 April 2022 of period 2022Q2: (PREV PERIOD - NEXT DAY)

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Last night we had heavy snowfall and this morning we had a thin stratus, just thin enough to observe. Transparency was poor, but seeing was reported reasonable by the scintillation monitor. I made the following observation:
Observation date/time:   01 April 09:05 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 (343mm distance, 80mm diameter)
Reference:               Earth's rotation axis
Exposure (transparency): 0.430ms
Seeing (SSSMon):         3.5-4.0"

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Total number of sunspots:   25

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