HUGE SUNSPOT
Watch By Carter Observatory
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, January 13. A huge sunspot is obscuring a section of the sun measuring 300,000,000 square miles—a much larger area than the total area of the earth. The director of the Carter Observatory (Mr I. L. Thomsen) said today the observatory had been watching the sunspot since last week until recent overcast weather blotted it from Wellington.
“It is the seventeenth or eighteenth largest sunspot seen since 1954,** he said.
In spite of its size it was not particularly active and he had had no reports of radio interference.
Mr Thomsen said that permanent damage to the eyes was likely if precautions such as using heavily smoked glass aver exposed film—were not taken when persons were watching the surface of the sun.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28793, 14 January 1959, Page 3
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