To: neverdem
Don't see any sunspots. Can't remember the last time I went to Spaceweather.com and didn't see any.
84 posted on
02/09/2008 2:55:57 PM PST by
dirtboy
To: dirtboy
Bigger photo, different filter, from SOHO. I don't know if it will periodiacally refresh, upon each new [5 minute cycle] renewal rate, or not.If the time and date indicates later than the "post" time, then perhaps it will/does.
124 posted on
02/09/2008 5:59:15 PM PST by
BlueDragon
(what a sad song it has become, no?)
To: dirtboy
The sun has been virtually blank for probably the last six months or so. Pretty strange sight. Finally got a small “cycle 24 sunspot” a week or so ago, but it’s gone now.
126 posted on
02/09/2008 6:08:35 PM PST by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: dirtboy
I just downloaded the data files and did a count:
Ol’Sol was blank for 161 days in 2007 - no spots at all for half the year.
127 posted on
02/09/2008 6:21:27 PM PST by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: dirtboy
Good posting! Real data as opposed to emotional scare mongering.
This is a NASA image of the sun on February 8, 2008 that readers can learn more about by going to www.spaceweather.com
The 70 year Maunder Minimum that extended from 1645 to 1715 coincided with the coldest portion of what is known as "The Little Ice Age" in Europe and North America.
128 posted on
02/09/2008 6:39:04 PM PST by
StopGlobalWhining
(Only 3 1/2-5% of atmospheric CO2 is the result of human activities. 95-96.5% is from natural sources)
To: dirtboy
Don't see any sunspots. Can't remember the last time I went to Spaceweather.com and didn't see any.My husband likes to show sunspots to kids who visit his StarLab program. (He projects them on a flat surface).
They have seen very few this year.
172 posted on
02/11/2008 5:22:53 AM PST by
syriacus
(McCain promises to transfer all Gitmo prisoners to Ft. Leavenworth on his first day as president.)
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