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Hibernation

In the northern hemisphere, all caves in which bears hibernate open in which direction?
- North

Sunspots

Never Look At The Sun Without Proper Protection. For information on how to safely observe the sun, visit www.spaceweather.com/sunspots/doityourself.html.

'nuff said.

Friday, July 23, 2004

... I was sitting in my car this morning and the fog was burning off so I could see the sun and in the middle was a big black dot. So get something and go out today and see if you see it. You can't miss it. It's very noticeable. ...

Brad

... Haven't had time to check it out. I did have time to go onto SOHO web site. Check it out, if you can: http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/realtime-update.html. Provides real-time images of the sun and there are two huge sun spots.

I will try to see the sun spots [later when I make a pin telescope to protect my eyes].

Naked Eye Sunspot

An image of the Sun showing a sunspot with a passing airplane and its contrail. The Sun looks like a large orange ball. At the one o'clock position, an airplane lies on the edge of the Sun. The airplane's contrail slices the Sun into two pieces at the intersection of eleven o'clock and one o'clock. A sunspot, two black marks, lies slightly above the center of the Sun.

Sunspot 720 and a passing airplane. Photo credit: Jan Koeman of Kloetinge, the Netherlands.

Monday, January 17, 2005, 1:51:15 AM

January 16, 2005, Sunspot 10720 began as a speck that was barely visible in a telescope. The spot has grown so dramatically in the recent days that it's now visible to the naked eye using the proper protection.

Although condition were marginal due to the blurring effects of atmospheric turbulence, the editor took several experimental photos of the spot today. The best image is posted online at www.spacearchive.info/temp.htm.

Brian Webb
Ventura County, California
E-mail: kd6nrp@earthlink.net
Web Site: http://www.spacearchive.info

An image of the Sun showing a sunspot slightly above center. The Sun looks like a large pale orange ball. A sunspot, two black marks, lies slightly above the center of the Sun.

This un-enhanced solar image taken on 2005 January 16 22:26 UTC with an 8-inch SCT and Nikon D70 digital SLR.

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Created: 23 Jun 2005 19:43:00 -0700
Changed: 19 Jun 2006 05:55:23 -0800

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