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Sunspot AR2936

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An impressive sunspot was visible today.  In the middle of the disk, AR 2936 can easily been seen.  More to the right, also AR 2934 is visible.  Luckily, it was sunny, for the first time in a while, so I could take some pictures with my Canon EOS 80D and 70-300mm zoomlens.

The Udvar-Hazy Center near the Washington DC airport

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For work (helping with the commissioning of the MIRI instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope), I had to be in Baltimore for a bit more than two weeks.  I flew to (and from) the Washington DC (Dulles) airport.  Very close by the airport, I visited the Udvar-Hazy Center, an air and space museum.  The most impressive spacecraft to see is the Space Shuttle Discovery.  The planes that are displayed are also really impressive: The concorde, Enola Gay, the Blackbird, ...  A very nice museum to spend some time before boarding the flight back to Europe! Space Shuttle Discovery Gemini 4 Mercury 6 Space Shuttle Discovery Space Shuttle Discovery