Monday, April 13, 2009

SUNSPOTS




A) A region on the suns surface that is marked by intense magnetic activity.

B) The Climate makes them change.

C) Shows the latitude of sunspot occurence versus time (in years)

D) The number of sunspots reaches minimum of about every 11 years.

E) When there are significant sunspots it makes the Earth Colder

F) Is expected bewtween 2011 and 2012

G) Sunspots are observed with land-based solar telescopes as well as ones on Earth-orbiting satellites. These telescopes use filtration and projection techniques for direct observation, in additional to filtered cameras of various types. Specialized tools such as spectroscopes and spectrohelioscopes are used to examine sunspots and areas of sunspots

H) Dearborn Telescope

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