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Three Sunspots
Published on 22 Oct 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 22nd October 2010
Three Sunspots are displayed now, please do not look at your binocular or telescopes at the Sun that could be permanent blindness will be result even just quickly look at the Sun. See Derekscope Archive :- Friday 30th April 2010 for safety observing the Sun.
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A new rash of new Sunspots
Published on 19 Oct 2010 at 00:00.
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Tuesday 19th October 2010
NEVER NEVER LOOK AT OR NEAR THE SUN
THROUGH BINOCULARS or TELESCOPES !
PERMANENT BLINDNESS WILL RESULT EVEN
JUST QUICKLY LOOK AT THE SUN.
NEVER means DO NOT TRY!
A rash of new sunspots is emerging at the circled location.
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See Derekscope Archive :- Friday 30th April 2010 for safety observing the Sun.
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The First Sunrise of Autumn
Published on 24 Sep 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 24th September 2010
Autumn Sunrise
Yesterday if you saw a sun rise in the morning that the first sunrise of Autumn where the photo was showed above and captured by Monika Landy-Gyebnar woke up early and went outside at dawn to photograph the first sunrise of autumn!
The sight of this Super Harvest Moon beaming
through the trees
Above a [...]
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Big Sunspot Number 1108
Published on 19 Sep 2010 at 00:00.
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Sunday 19th September 2010
Click here for enlarge image that the Big Sunspot Number 1108.
The Sunspot Number?
Scientists track Solar Cycles by counting sunspots – cool planet-sized (Earth) areas on the Sun where intense magnetic loops through the star’s visible surface
Counting sunspots is not as straightforward as it sounds. Suppose you looked at the Sun through a [...]
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The Sun exploded
Published on 5 Sep 2010 at 00:00.
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Sunday 5th September 2010
NEVER NEVER LOOK AT OR NEAR THE SUN
THROUGH BINOCULARS or TELESCOPES !
PERMANENT BLINDNESS WILL RESULT EVEN
JUST QUICKLY LOOK AT THE SUN.
NEVER means DO NOT TRY!
Click here for enlarge image that it shows Sun Spots (Ref Number Spots :- 1105) is growing rapidly, but does not yet pose a treat for a strong solar flares [...]
What is the Sun?
Published on 13 Jul 2010 at 00:00.
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Tuesday 13th July 2010
What is the Sun?
The Sun is a star! – Great glowing ball of two gases (Hydrogen and Helium).
Without the Sun’s light and heat – You won’t be here today, nothing could survive on this planet, Earth would die, because we need the Sun’s ray for our plants to change carbon dioxide and water [...]
Sun’s Heat Clouds
Published on 11 Jun 2010 at 07:00.
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Friday 11th June 2010
Prominence (Click here for enlarge image for the scale size.)
A heat cloud of matter escaping from the Sun then returning into the Sun’s surface – 60,000 K.
The flame – Prominence erupts that can reach heights of up to 450,000 miles in just one hour.
All prominences have spectra showing lines of neutral hydrogen, [...]
Amazing Transit
Published on 24 May 2010 at 00:00.
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Monday 24th May 2010
Amazing Transit (Click here for enlarge image.)
Image of the solar transit of the International Space Station (ISS) and Space Shuttle Atlantis during the STS-132 mission, taken from Niederbipp in Switzerland on May 22nd 2010 by a French man, Thierry Legault.
Derekscope BSL Video
NASA Facts:-
NASA’s shuttle program is coming to an end later this [...]
NEVER means DO NOT TRY!
Published on 30 Apr 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 30th April 2010
NEVER NEVER LOOK AT
OR NEAR THE SUN
THROUGH BINOCULARS or TELESCOPES !
PERMANENT BLINDNESS WILL RESULT EVEN
JUST QUICKLY LOOK AT THE SUN.
NEVER means DO NOT TRY!
I have to say that to remind you because I have stopped one adult with his child, were trying to look at the Sun with their exciting new [...]
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Solar Dynamics Observatory – Got an answer.
Published on 29 Apr 2010 at 00:00.
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Thursday 29th April 2010
Coronal Rain
Encircled are two plasma streamers, one hitting the sun’s surface and another incoming behind it.
See the feature movie for a magnetic filament erupts on April 19th that for the first time Solar Dynamice Observatory (SDO) provides an answer :- “The rain appears to be brighten by a cushion of hot gas [...]
