Sunspots

10 responses to “Sunspots”

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   jurvetson

   May 6, 2012 at 10:00 pm

   Oh, and NASA came out with a cool music video, with some amazing visuals…
   I’d suggest full screen
   

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   jurvetson

   May 7, 2012 at 12:38 am

   Speaking of sparking interest in space, I just saw this graph showing that the public interest in the International Space Station has spiked dramatically of late:

   why?

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   solerena

   May 7, 2012 at 6:07 am

   🙂

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   scleroplex

   May 7, 2012 at 3:20 pm

   wow

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   jurvetson

   May 7, 2012 at 11:47 pm

   thanks. It was particularly tricky because it does not have manual focus. An iPhone camera is a bit easier to use in this context, looking through the eyepiece to a virtual focal plane…

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   Pieces of Eye

   May 8, 2012 at 5:53 am

   I’ve used a spotting scope with a pair of rotatable polarizers. The trick is not burn your retina finding the right angle but it works 🙂

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   rwoodworkr

   May 8, 2012 at 4:07 pm

   Thank you for the labels. I always get sunspot 1474 mixed up with sunspot 1475.

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   jurvetson

   Jun 10, 2012 at 1:54 am

   yeah, me too. Here is a cool video of Venus passing in front.

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   Pieces of Eye

   Jun 10, 2012 at 4:33 am

   Oh yeah I’ve seen some awesome vids of the transit including that wonderful one. I’ve been trying to get an answer to this but presumable STEREO should get its own transit(s).

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    jurvetson

    Jul 12, 2012 at 5:45 pm

    1520 just rotated into view
    
    The large spot on the bottom left stretches more than 11 Earths across.

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