FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Sunspot number "0"

["Steven Dodder" <sdodder@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Right, Brian.  An even better indication of solar activity comes from the 
MDI Magnetogram which shows magnetic activity, whether there's sunspots or 
not.  These are two images I check regularly, especially whena sked if 
there's anything going on on the Sun.  :-)




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>From: Brian Skiff <bas@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>      One can also get a good idea of the spottedness from the
>SOHO spacecraft images:
>
>http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/
>
>The 'MIDI continuum' picture is a good proxy to the visible-light
>state of the Sun, which as you can see today is immaculate.
>
>
>\Brian

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