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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Plane on April 30, 2007, 12:43:13 AM

Title: Pretty..........hot
Post by: Plane on April 30, 2007, 12:43:13 AM

(http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2007/28apr07/kersten_strip2.jpg)

(http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2007/28apr07/kersten.jpg)


PHOTOGENIC SUNSPOT: Sunspot 953 is an active region of remarkable beauty. Regard this image taken yesterday by Sebastien Kersten of Le Cocq, Belgium:


Sunspot 953: the view through an H-alpha filter.

His snapshot reveals not only the dark sunspot, but also a curious bright fringe just above it. This may be a cloud of extra-hot gas held aloft by the sunspot's magnetic field. Or it could be a zone of intense magnetic turbulence crackling with micro-solar flares.
http://www.spaceweather.com/

Title: Re: Pretty..........hot
Post by: The_Professor on April 30, 2007, 09:53:37 AM

looks like the top of my head during the dog days of summer down here.

Oops, that's Plane's!

 :D

Title: Re: Pretty..........hot
Post by: Plane on April 30, 2007, 09:56:34 AM

It reminds me of a Van Gough, with seven yellows and visible brush strokes.

Title: Re: Pretty..........hot
Post by: hnumpah on April 30, 2007, 01:49:17 PM

I thought someone had found the sun's backside...