[TheForge] OT sunspots

Fri Nov 14 16:52:07 2003

I looked for info on that several years ago and came up with a #14.

Steve Smith

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> Is it safe to look at the sun with a welding hood #10 shade?
> 
> Bob
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> Space Weather News for Nov. 14, 2003
> http://spaceweather.com
> 
> Using a technique called helioseismic holography, astronomers can do
> something amazing: look through the sun to find sunspots on the far side
> of our star. On Nov. 11th and 12th their holographic maps revealed giant
> sunspots 486 and 488--the same active regions that caused so much intense
> space weather a few weeks ago.
> 
> These spots are still active. Explosions from their vicinity have been
> hurling clouds of gas over the sun's limb in recent days. The sun's 27-day
> rotation will soon carry the pair around to the Earth-facing side of the
> sun. More solar storms are possible when they reappear on or about Nov.
> 19th.
> 
> Meanwhile, another one of last month's giant sunspots has already
> reappeared. Active region 484 is peeking over the sun's eastern limb. The
> sunspot looks smaller than it did in late October, but it too remains
> active--hurling a bright coronal mass ejection into space on Nov. 13th.
> 
> Visit spaceweather.com for more information and updates.
> 
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