ENORMOUS SUNSPOT.
Wanganui, November 30. Extraordinary and unique activity on the morning sun’s surface was recorded this morning by the well-known jfstronomer, Mr J. T. Ward, at the Wanganui Observatory. He slates that an enormous sunspot passing the limb of the sun has given vise to colossal prominences, and seen through the spectroscope at the observatory il presented a wonderful sight. The prominences are estimated to be fifteen to two hundred and fifty thousand miles in height. They are to the kind and form known as metallic, and quiescent and are of great variety. Air Ward states that the spectacle is unique in astronomical research in the Dominion, although a smaller scale was observed ten a smaller scales was observed fen years ago in Wanganui.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2818, 2 December 1924, Page 3
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125ENORMOUS SUNSPOT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2818, 2 December 1924, Page 3
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