Re: Kids can't choose, so I get to

[BRIGGSP@Citadel.edu]

> Keith:

> How about a solar study?  Photograph the Sun thru telescope (with filters
> of course) everyday at about the same time for a month or so.  If there are
> several sun spots at different lattitudes, some interesting things can come
> about when one tries to estimate the rate of rotation of the sun.

> Dewey

You can do this experiment by Internet, too.  Daily images of the Sun are
archived at
		http://www.sel.noaa.gov/images/index.html

You can see the sunspots and plage regions rotating across the surface of the
Sun day by day.

Regards,	PRB

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