Present Values of the Optical Depth as Measured at the CSO

The most recently measured value of the 225 GHz optical depth at the CSO is 0.174. This measurement occurred at 05:49 UT. The current time is 05:57 UT.

The most recently measured value of the 350 micron optical depth at the CSO is 2.0. This measurement occurred at 05:30:58 UT on 2008-05-16. With a scaling factor of 24.75, this gives another estimate of optical depth at 225 GHz of 0.081.

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