Solar Satellite Alignment

[pacificrim]

It's still a couple days away from the solar outage period but when I came home late morning I could see my dish lining up with the sun. Its going to rain for another week, so today was my only close chance to see it. This was pointed to 107w. I know my Ku in the center is pretty much perfect at this time as I am getting everything in Ku, perhaps even better than my previous 1.2m

 

[FaT Air]

Getting there. another few days for peak interference here.
http://www.satellite-calculations.com/Satellite/suninterference.php
Maybe I'll take a pic of the sun when it's at 30W next Thursday in the AM.

 

[pacificrim]

Bingo! The sun just came out in the middle of a rain storm and I found a perfect alignment way past 139w - I calculated it to be about 155 deg w.

 

[polgyver]

I was thinking about a new post about Sun outage, but now it is easier to add on some info to existing post, thanks, pacificrim
Tried to figure out how the Sun outage depends on various cities' geographical location, and there are some findings:
Towns located close to meridian 117* :
Spokane, WA - March 1, 10.31 AM Tonopah, NV - March 4, 10.29 AM San Diego, CA - March 6, 10.27 AM

Towns close to meridian 97*:
Grand Forks, ND - March 1, 12.40 PM Wichita, KS - March 4, 12.39 PM Corpus Christi, TX - March 7, 12.39 PM

Towns close to meridian 80* :
Erie, PA - March 3, 1.38 PM Charleston, SC - March 6, 1.49 PM West Palm Beach, FL March 8, 1.49 PM

Anchorage, AK - already had its max. Sun outage, February 28, 9.26 AM.
The more North we are, the earlier the Sun outage occurs.
I did not use the numerous web sites about Sun outage, just used US Navy site, as it is the easiest to use.
Cheers, polgyver