Activity m Sunspots
MANY DISTURBANCES Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Last Night. During January the sun has been showing Bigns of great activity. There have been many groups of sunspots and some of the individual spots have been of large dimensions. Whenever the limb of the sun has been examiued 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 were counted by observers at the Dominion Observatory, although a great many of them were small. The most active group was 86,000 miles in length, and had one complicated spot composed of Vhree large nuclei. The whole spot measured 29,000 miles in »ts greatest length.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 5
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119Activity m Sunspots Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 25, 30 January 1937, Page 5
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