I have another post or two from the Chinati Foundation, but the sun had a magnificent complex grouping of sunspots today and so I set up my telescope and photographed the sun.
The main thing of interest to me is these three large spots in a row. If you click on this image it will be larger and you can see how many smaller spots there are in this grouping, and then even tinier ones. Far too many to count. A really exciting thing to see. The sun goes through 11 year cycles that begin with no spots on the sun at all, to a sun that looks like this, and then at the end of the cycle it goes back to having no spots at all. Just another fascinating part of this universe we live in
2 comments:
Thank you for the lesson of the day. I was not aware of an 11 year cycle and it hard to imagine that the sun will go back to no spots.
I also had no idea that the sun goes through an 11 year cycle. Good thing that you are taking photos now. Betsey
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