SOLAR ACTIVITY
OBSERVERS INTERESTED By leleurnt-ri Association WELLINGTON, January 29. During January the sun has been showing signs of great activity. There have been many groups of sunspots and some of the individual spots hai/fe been of large dimensions. Whenever the limb of tile sun has been examined with a spectroscope active prominences in considerable numbers have been present. Yesterday the sun showed a very disturbed appearance. In all 214 individual sunspots were counted by observers at the Dominion Observatory, although a great many of them were small. The most active group was 86,000 miles in length and had one complicated spot composed of three large nuclei. The whole spot measured 29,000 miles in its greatest length.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20639, 30 January 1937, Page 10
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117SOLAR ACTIVITY Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20639, 30 January 1937, Page 10
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