The Effect Of Sunspots On The Moon

In this paper I will explain how astronomers determine the composition, temperature, speed, and rotation rate of distant objects using various methods. I will explain the properties of stars. I will also summarize the complete lifecycle of the Sun and determine where the Sun is currently in its lifecycle.

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Sunspots are dark spots on the Sun caused its magnetic field. The spots are dark because they are cooler than the area of the Sun that surrounds them and are often as big as the Earth.

The Moon’s permanently shadowed regions haven’t been exposed to sunlight in millions, or even billions, of years. The Earth’s 23.5° tilted axis allows sunlight to reach everywhere on its surface including the poles. But the Moon’s tilt relative to the Sun is only 1.6°, not enough to get sunlight into some deep craters near the lunar poles. These regions are some of the coldest, darkest places in the solar system. Volatile chemicals that would normally vaporize and lost into space such as water become trapped in these dark regions in solid

For the World Moon Project we were supposed to observe the moon on certain key dates. Each moon observation is in chronological order with the date and is recorded in military time. We observed the moon and recorded our Big 5 data.

During this unit in my astronomy class, one thing that I found fascinating was sunspots. A sunspot is basically a patch that occasionally occurs on the surface of the sun, and appears darker by contrasting with it’s surroundings. Human’s have known about sunspots for a quite a while now, even all the way back to the fifth century B.C., when the Chinese were able to observe dark areas on the sun. However, it wasn’t until the year 1610 when there was a real break through. Four men, all of which no one is particularly certain who observed sunspots first, were able to see these blemishes on the sun through telescopes. These men were Galileo Galilei, Johannes Fabricius, Christopher Scheiner, and Thomas Harriott. All through their own independent studies, they recorded the changing shapes and locations of sunspots. Further advancement for study on sunspots began in 1749, when scientists began daily observations in several observatories. Continuous observation began in the year 1849.

Batalha et al. (2011), Rowe et al. (2014), and Huber et al. (2014) validated and revised the data collected or simulated on Kepler planets. Natalie M. Batalha et al. (2011) utilized photometric and spectroscopic techniques to model the frequencies of Earth-sized planets near sun-like stars, which resulted in precise knowledge of the fundamental stellar properties, and thereby detected the nature of Kepler-10, which is the first rocky planet of Kepler and the smallest transiting exoplanet discovered to date. (Natalie M. Batalha et al 2011) Jason F. Rowe et al. (2014) used fundamental parameters to present fundamental planetary properties based on an analysis of Kepler light curves, spectroscopy based on ground analysis, imaging in high resolution, and Kepler light curves, (Jason F. Rowe et al 2014). The paper cited the research of Borucki et al. (2013) to back up the idea of effective temperatures of the stellar hosts to aid in investigations done by other researchers. Daniel Huber et al. (2014) provide revised properties of the many planetary systems the Kepler mission has discovered, using broadband photometry and asteroseismology in order to characterize 11,532 Kepler targets which were not classified in the KIC(Kepler Input Catalog)

In 1945, Joseph Henry and Stephen Alexander, professors from Princeton University, discovered that sunspots emitted less radiation than surrounding areas of the sun. This is because the Sun’s outer shell, the photosphere, behaves as plasma, which is a very good conductor of electricity, and interacts with the magnetic fields of sunspots. The plasma slows down and cools to 1000 K less than the surrounding photosphere which makes it look darker than the surrounding areas. These areas were concentrated magnetic fields appear, are usually part of a loop, as sunspots generally present in pairs which line up parallel to the equator, showing a magnetic polarity. The sunspots in each hemisphere have the opposite polarity to the other. Over the 11 year cycle, the whole polarity reverses as the new set of sunspots form away from the Sun’s equator. Therefore, a complete 22 year cycle returns the polarity to its original

The Sun has been a measure source of knowledge since the past century. Being the nearest star to the Earth, the Sun is easily accessible to study

Task/material: Teachers/Teacher Aide were trained in 1 hour workshops to allow them to understand the procedure. The children will either receive cloud-covered or non covered suns and the most desired actions resulted in the biggest version of the sun (token economy), shown in Figure 1. This study occurred over a 6 week period and obtained daily for 40 min each

In 1977, the Television was release album Marquee moon which is mostly success. This is a great album and you need to heard it right now . Tom Verlaine the main singer of this album was present perfectly. This is not a old way of rock song , it have some thing special inside of it. Most of people call it alternative rock. This album is mostly punk , sound different from the other rock album . This album has a well sale in Europe but little bit poor in American and enter the billboard 200 and got 30 place in some country board.

Buckle your seatbelts, because in three shorts pages, I am going to teach you, something I learned a few days ago. So sit down, and enjoy the experience. Usually during the night the most noticeable thing in the sky is the moon and its brightness. However, the moon does not actually make any light of its own or ever change shape. The moon appears like that because it reflects light from the sun. The moon appears to be lighter or darker at different times of the month because of the positions of the moon, sun, and Earth. The moon revolves around the Earth. As the moon orbits it reflects different amounts of light due to the angle at which it receives sunlight. Which cause the lunar cycle. The cycle is made up of different stages which are new

The methodology in this mission involved the curation of a spacecraft unlike its predecessors. The spacecraft used to carry out this mission is very unique because the craft itself and its tools for data collection are powered by solar panels as appose to the typical power system involving radioisotope decay. Where Jupiter lies relative to the Sun, it receives 25 times less sunlight than Earth receives. Given this lack of sunlight in comparison to Earth, the solar panels for the spacecraft were created to be larger than those used on spacecraft closer to the Sun. There are three solar panels in total, each approximately 60ft long. The spacecraft’s orbit around Jupiter is designed in a way that the solar panels are always orientated in the direction

Smith Telescope, which uses a 2.72 m diameter mirror made of fused silica, was used to gather information about the composition of the star and the planet’s characteristics (‘Texas Astronomers Help Find Earth’s Older, Bigger Cousin’). The Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona used high-resolution spectrographs to determine the size of Kepler-452b, and the attributes of its host star (Hammond). This observatory houses 7 telescopes in its ground based telescope dome (‘Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory’). The data analysts used the 10-metre Keck I Telescope at Keck observatory in order to confirm the data obtained from the Kepler Instrument, and further analyze the host star’s characteristics. This was done by adding the HIRES instrument to the telescope, which creates high resolution spectrographs (‘Found: Earth’s Closest Cousin Yet’). High resolution spectrographs are spectras of objects covering a wide range of wavelengths by separating light into stripes of spectra (‘Found: Earth’s Closest Cousin

For our solar study, we set the location to Urbana. The solar study was from sunrise to sunset, and the time interval between frames was 15 minutes. The date for the settings was December 4th, 2017.