When reading this, this, this and this, I found the article about Solar Eclipses very interesting. They are very interesting to look at as well as observe the corona. Taking Astronomy in high school, we got the opportunity to observe the corona a little more in depth and started talking about them in relation to sunspots and the magnetic field of the sun. I found these interesting because there are a lot of unanswered questions concerning why the plasma shoots out from the sun, and what the effect of these coronal mass ejections (CME) is on the earth. This is also related to the magnetic field of the sun, which I am completely fascinated with. It is very interesting to see how the middle of the sun rotates faster than the poles and how it just coils around itself until it catches and gets tangled up and erupts in a solar flare. I also found the ecliptic a little hard to understand. I have some experience learning about it, but it gets confusing when trying to look at constellations and someone tells you that it is on the ecliptic, and you look at the equator instead. It would have been a lot easier for everything to just be on the same line and so it would make observing much easier. And that was pretty much the most interesting concepts for me.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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Hi Steven,
ReplyDeleteThe whole tilt of the Earth on its axis has to screw everything up doesn't it.
Prof. Bary