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"...a bird pooped on the Sun"
I invited my 9-year-old out to see sunspot 756, and his reaction when he
saw it was, "Whoa--is it the black spot that looks like a bird pooped on the Sun?" My 12-year-old asked how big it was, probably anticipating the magnitude of the answer, but she was suitably impressed when I told her it was several Earths wide. - Ernie http://home.comcast.net/~erniew |
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"Ernie Wright" wrote in message ... I invited my 9-year-old out to see sunspot 756, and his reaction when he saw it was, "Whoa--is it the black spot that looks like a bird pooped on the Sun?" My 12-year-old asked how big it was, probably anticipating the magnitude of the answer, but she was suitably impressed when I told her it was several Earths wide. - Ernie http://home.comcast.net/~erniew Yup, it's a big one alright. I spent over two hours trying to fight off wind and sunlight so I could grab images into the laptop, but nothing would cooperate, not even seeing, so I wasn't successful today. I did get a look though and it's large. Robin |
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Robin Williamson wrote:
"Ernie Wright" wrote in message ... snip Robin replied Yup, it's a big one alright. . . I did get a look though and it's large. I got in a couple of hours of white light viewing of sunspot 756 as the Sun poked in and out of the local clouds. This sunspot is very impressive in size and is in the shape of an extended comma. (It's definitely worth taking a look at if any of your lurkers have missed it.) The central core is almost rectangular and appears to consist of two side by side overlaping spots. It is reminiscent of a barred galaxy in appearance. The extended "tail", which includes a trail of smaller spots, wraps about 200=B0 around the central core. At about 2005/05/02 01:00 UTC (2005/05/01 7:00pm MDT Local Time) I made a rough measurement of its maximal diameter (with the tail) and the major axis of the central core using a graduated reticule: 75" - maximum diameter of the core with tail - about 54500 kilometers 46" - major axis of the central core - approx. 33400 kilometers Is the emergence of this sunspot somehow related to the large coronal hole seen the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) 284 A angstrom images? http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/ http://spaceweather.com/ - Canopus56 P=2ES. - The estimated linear distance is a simple proportional calculation based on the NASA JPL Horizon Ephemeris Generator ( http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eph ) listing of 1905" diameter for the Sun for 1:00 UTC 5/2/2005 and my OP. |
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"Robin Williamson" wrote in message ink.net... "Ernie Wright" wrote in message ... I invited my 9-year-old out to see sunspot 756, and his reaction when he saw it was, "Whoa--is it the black spot that looks like a bird pooped on the Sun?" My 12-year-old asked how big it was, probably anticipating the magnitude of the answer, but she was suitably impressed when I told her it was several Earths wide. - Ernie http://home.comcast.net/~erniew Yup, it's a big one alright. I spent over two hours trying to fight off wind and sunlight so I could grab images into the laptop, but nothing would cooperate, not even seeing, so I wasn't successful today. I did get a look though and it's large. Robin I looked at it last sunday, through clouds. It is a very nice sunspot. reminds me of sunspot 652, which was a little bit larger I think, and of which I made one of my best images. -- md 10" LX200GPS-SMT ETX105 www.xs4all.nl/~martlian |
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