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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binastro" data-source="post: 3148192" data-attributes="member: 111403">Hi David,I thought that the pimple was smaller, but I will photograph it and get the accurate size.It is shaped like a small pyramid and is part of the top chimney brick. I think that British bricks may be about 9" x 4.5" but I will check. The building must be about 1930s or earlier and is a mansion block. Birds like sitting on the chimney, which is about 80 feet above the ground.Unfortunately it is now cloudy and dull. I just went for a walk hoping to view the sunspots with a filter and although this morning was very bright and sunny I could not view the Sun today, except in the morning with the H alpha telescope.There has been a protected unaided eyes sunspot for several days now, about 39 or 40 arc seconds penumbral size. It is actually composed of two close subvisual sunspots which are seen as one to my eyes. With the moons of Saturn and Jupiter I found that if two subvisual moons were separated by less than five times the Dawes limit I would see them as one small visual moon. I think I probably see about the same with two subvisual sunspots with protected unaided eyes, which can then be seen as one. I.e less than 5x Dawes limit apart.When I was out I took photographs of the crows flying around.What was very strange was a Boeing 747 flying at about 220 kn with half flaps down and at about 6000 feet altitude. It seemed to be flying sideways so I assume the crosswind was around 50 kn or more at that height.You don't say what binocular you were using to read the Easy Jet name.The one problem with the Canon 8×25 IS is that it uses a camera battery and although I have some unused ones they are quite old and I will have to buy some new ones. They cost around 4 pounds although you can get them cheaper from somewhere like Mathers of Lancashire, I think. I used to buy ten at a time for cameras but I don't need them nowadays. I think they were mainly used in film cameras.I remember buying a daft tiny handheld television that was made by the British inventor and he used a Polaroid battery, which was typical of him. The successful Japanese ones used ordinary batteries.I remember having a white small Cambridge calculator, which used for memory, reverse Polish logic.Then he invented the daft electric tiny vehicle for driving around on the pavement.Sinclair maybe?I might be able to photograph the pimple but the light is very poor today.The pimple was invisible with 8x25 IS unstabilised. Continually, easily visible with stabiliser on (2014 new version, more difficult old version).With the 18x50 stabilised a lot of detail is seen in the pimple and no ordinary handheld binocular comes close.</blockquote>

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