• The Sunspot Solar Observatory (SSO) is an astronomical observatory designed for the study of the Sun. The observatory is operated by New Mexico State...
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    800 m). The Sunspot Solar Observatory and Apache Point Observatory are located in Sunspot in the Sacramento Mountains. The site of Sunspot is leased by...
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    Sunspots are temporary spots on the Sun's surface that are darker than the surrounding area. They are one of the most recognizable Solar phenomena and...
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  • Long-term Investigations of the Sun Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope See Sunspot Solar Observatory for the telescopes located there Global Oscillation...
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    the international sunspot number series. The international sunspot number series is still being produced today at the observatory of Brussels. The international...
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    The solar cycle, also known as the solar magnetic activity cycle, sunspot cycle, or Schwabe cycle, is a nearly periodic 11-year change in the Sun's activity...
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  • Solar cycles are nearly periodic 11-year changes in the Sun's activity that are based on the number of sunspots present on the Sun's surface. The first...
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    Solar cycle 25 is the current solar cycle, the 25th since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. It began in December 2019 with...
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    The Apache Point Observatory (APO; obs. code: 705) is an astronomical observatory located in the Sacramento Mountains in Sunspot, New Mexico, United States...
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  • solar irradiation than today, so that greater glacial melting (and thicker sediment deposits) could have occurred during years with greater sunspot activity...
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    It is located at Sacramento Peak in Sunspot, New Mexico. It is the main telescope at the Sunspot Solar Observatory, operated by New Mexico State University...
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    Solar cycle 24 is the most recently completed solar cycle, the 24th since 1755, when extensive recording of solar sunspot activity began. It began in...
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    The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi...
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    expanded on, by solar astronomers Edward Walter Maunder (1851–1928), and his wife Annie Russell Maunder (1868–1947), who also studied how sunspot latitudes...
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  • With Teeth "Sunspots", an episode of Static Shock Sunspots (TV series), a 1974–75 Canadian television series Sunspot Solar Observatory, a solar telescope...
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    A solar telescope or a solar observatory is a special-purpose telescope used to observe the Sun. Solar telescopes usually detect light with wavelengths...
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    The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a NASA mission which has been observing the Sun since 2010. Launched on 11 February 2010, the observatory is part...
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    installed. Research included solar rotation, sunspot polarities, daily sunspot drawings, and many magnetic field studies. The solar telescope would be the world's...
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    including solar wind, radio wave flux, solar flares, solar tornadoes, coronal mass ejections, coronal heating and sunspots. These phenomena are believed to...
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  • list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. For a detailed description, see observations of small Solar System...
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    "Galileo's sunspot letters". British Library. Retrieved 26 July 2020. Webster, Larry. "The 150-Foot Solar Tower Sunspot Drawing". Mount Wilson Observatory. Retrieved...
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  • bought by Meade Instruments in 2004 and sells SolarMax solar telescopes up to 8 cm Most solar observatories observe optically at visible, UV, and near infrared...
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    collectively called solar activity. Solar flares and coronal mass ejections tend to occur at sunspot groups. Slowly changing high-speed streams of solar wind are...
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    – via YouTube. Garofalo, Meredith (13 May 2024). "How a giant sunspot unleashed solar storms that spawned global auroras that just dazzled us all". Space...
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    Advanced Composition Explorer Parker Solar Probe Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Solar Dynamics Observatory Solar Orbiter WIND (spacecraft) Charles Hyder...
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    Commission for Space History. From 2016-2021 he was the Director of Sunspot Solar Observatory. Dr McAteer graduated from Queen's University Belfast with a master's...
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    active regions, often around sunspots, where intense magnetic fields penetrate the photosphere to link the corona to the solar interior. Flares are powered...
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  • Foundation. Sunspot Solar Observatory (SSO) operates the Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope (DST) on behalf of the NSF. The Big Bear Solar Observatory in California...
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    2024-02-19. "Sunspot Solar System Model". Archived from the original on 2017-04-11. Retrieved 2024-02-19. "VISITING THE SUNSPOT OBSERVATORY". sunspot.solar. 19...
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    Center Solar Flare Telescope, Sunspot Telescope, TAMA 300 gravitational wave detector Tokyo Photoelectric Meridian Circle Historical instruments: Solar Tower...
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