Sunspotter Talk

Sneaky CMEs...

Subject: ASZ000042p

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by Mjtbarrett

Cancel that. Found this http://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/help/the-magnetic-classification-of-sunspots

Posted February 27, 2014 10:33 AM
by Mjtbarrett

#delta

Posted February 27, 2014 10:43 AM
by pahiggins

Another interesting thing about this ss. group is that it has a 'double' polarity separation line. This often seems to lead to big flares!

Posted February 27, 2014 6:16 PM
by pahiggins

Just as a note, it is not really possible to classify a sunspot group using Hale without comparing both vis. light images and mag. images.

Posted February 27, 2014 6:18 PM
by Mjtbarrett

@pahiggins thank you for taking the time to comment. Looks like I will need to do some homework on terminology... 😃

Posted February 28, 2014 8:26 AM
by pahiggins

Actually, if there are terms/acronyms you would like us to define, please list them in the comments of this blog post: http://wp.me/P3xkyb-B

Posted February 28, 2014 7:33 PM
by pahiggins

BTW here is an example of a visible light/magnetogram overlay that can be used to determine if a spot is a delta: http://tinyurl.com/meqwxa4

Posted February 28, 2014 8:50 PM
by Mjtbarrett

@pahiggins, thanks again. 😃 sadly I couldn't get the magnetogram link to work 😦 The blog link worked fine though so thank you.

Posted March 1, 2014 9:54 AM
by Mjtbarrett

I found this helpful: http://solar-center.stanford.edu/solar-images/magnetograms.html

Posted March 1, 2014 9:59 AM
by Mjtbarrett

And it has a link to a good non-technical glossary 😃 http://solar-center.stanford.edu/gloss.html #TRANSITION

Posted March 1, 2014 10:02 AM