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Old May 27th 09, 11:56 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default What are the white spots showing on the sun

On May 23, 1:32*pm, dave wrote:
Telamon wrote:
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*Graham wrote:


What are the *white *spotsshowing on the *sun.... are these *solar
flares ?
something *showing on this :-


http://www.bbso.njit.edu/Images/daily/images/kfull.jpg


but *image will change with time (22/5)


full set of images :-


http://www.n3kl.org/sun/


Very small sunspots where the field lines are not twisted much or very
strong. Look at the magnetogram where the redspotsare negative gauss
and the blue positive gauss.


http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~obs/cur_mag_fe1.html


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Ok .. can see the link in the two images and the field lines

Q do these 'small spots' infulence radio or is there a differant type
of spot that needs to form for this ?

tnx- G .