VAST SUNSPOT
BIGGEST EVER OBSERVED FROM WELLINGTON DOMINION OBSERVATORY REPORT. INTERFERENCE WITH CABLES & WIRELESS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The biggest sunspot ever observed from the Dominion,. Observatory, covering approximately sixty times the area of the earth, being 175,000 miles long by 72,000 miles broad, began crossing the meridian about noon on Tuesday and finished about noon yesterday. Its effects were evident last night in the serious interference with cable and wireless communications. Several reports have been received of Auroral displays last night, and the chances are that there will be further such phenomena tonight. The spot, which developed from two groups visible at the beginning of this week, can easily be seen by the naked eye, through smoked glass.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 6
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121VAST SUNSPOT Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 6
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