HUGE SUNSPOT.
NOW VISIBLE IN LONDON.
SEEN WITH THE NAKED EYE
{United Press Association— Copyright.! (Received Tilts Bay, 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, January 19.
The “Daily Telegraph”-says that one of the . largest sunspots observed since 1875, when the records were begun at Greenwich Observatory. is clearly visible in London to the naked, eye, on the upper right-hand of the orb, as an elongated dark patch. The area is estimated at 3,500,000,000 square miles. It is believed that recent difficulties in Empire broadcasts, especially to Canada, were due to it.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 85, 20 January 1938, Page 5
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