{"id":7113,"date":"2014-03-27T21:03:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T21:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7113"},"modified":"2014-03-27T23:25:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T23:25:44","slug":"sunspotter-citizen-solar-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7113","title":{"rendered":"Sunspotter – citizen solar science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunspotter<\/a>\u00a0is a Zooniverse citizen science project in which participants ”<\/p>\n

help to organize sunspot images in order of complexity to better understand and predict how the Sun’s magnetic activity affects us on Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Sunspotter blog<\/a>\u00a0includes interesting items such as this\u00a0Space weather \u2013 a short guide<\/a>\u00a0and \u00a0The Making of a Magnetogram Part I: Lost in a Magnetic Field<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"sunspot_size\"<\/a>“Sunspots vary in size and tend to range between 1.500 – 50,000 km,<\/em>
\n making some larger than Earth.Observed with the Swedish 1-m<\/em>
\n Solar Telescope (SST). The SST is operated on the island of La Palma<\/em>
\n by the Institute for Solar Physics in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque<\/em>
\n de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrof\u00edsica de Canarias.<\/em>
\n Observations: G\u00f6ran Scharmer and Kai Langhans, ISP.<\/em>
\n Image processing: Mats L\u00f6fdahl, ISP”<\/em><\/p>\n

===<\/p>\n

See the\u00a0HobbySpace Sun & Space Weather<\/a>\u00a0page here for real time images and data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunspotter\u00a0is a Zooniverse citizen science project in which participants ” help to organize sunspot images in order of complexity to better understand and predict how the Sun’s magnetic activity affects us on Earth. The\u00a0Sunspotter blog\u00a0includes interesting items such as this\u00a0Space weather \u2013 a short guide\u00a0and \u00a0The Making of a Magnetogram Part I: Lost in a … Continue reading Sunspotter – citizen solar science<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-solar-science","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1QJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7886,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7886","url_meta":{"origin":7113,"position":0},"title":"NASA green-lights citizen science group’s effort to contact & redirect ISEE-3 spacecraft","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I've written about the\u00a0ISEE-3 Reboot Project\u00a0effort by a private non-profit group to reconnect with NASA's\u00a035\u00a0year old International Sun-Earth Explorers (ISSE)\u00a0spacecraft and direct it back to its original solar science mission. 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