HUGE SUNSPOT.
100 TIMES BIGGER THAN AUSTRALIA. A 6unspot 100 times the area of Australia was observed recently from the Commonwealth Solar Observatory at Mt. Stromlo, Australia. Observations of sunspots are made daily at the Commonwealth Observatory. At present spots are. few in number and small in size, it being the period of minimum sunspot activity. The largest sunspot seen since February, 1931, made its appearance on the edge of the sun on Wednesday, December 7. This spot had an area of about 400,000,000 square miles. By reason of the sun’s rotation, it appeared on the centre of the sun s disc on Tuesday, December 13, and is now in the process of breaking up into three smaller spots. Spots of this size were fairly common during the last period of sunspot maximum—l92s to 1930—but since 1930 they have been rare, and it is not expected that many large spots, sucli as that now visible, will be seen until 1936. This spot is near the sun’s equator, indicating that it belongs to the cycle which is drawing to a close, and is not a forerunner ot a new cycle of sunspot activity.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 28, 30 December 1932, Page 7
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192HUGE SUNSPOT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 28, 30 December 1932, Page 7
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