ACTIVITY IN SUNSPOTS
' — Preas Ausoclation.)
Many Disturbances
(By I'Glegrapf
WELLINGTON, Last Night. During January the sun has been showing signs of great activity. There have been many groups of sunspots and some of the individual spots have been of large dimensions. Wihonever the limb of the sun has been examined with the spectroscope active prominences in considerable numbers have been present. On Thursday the sun showed a very disturbed appearance. In all, 124 individual sunspots wero counted by observers at the Dominion Observatory, although a great many of them were sraall. The most active group was 86,000 miles in length. and had one complicated spot composed of three large nuclei. The wihole spot measured 29,000 miles in its greatest length.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 13, 30 January 1937, Page 14
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