Lab Exercise 7 An Incident On the Sun

The Photosphere

Read  Laboratory Exercise 7 section 7.2a and answer questions 5-7.



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Layer: Photosphere

Filter: Visible Light

Temperature: 5700 K

Visible Features: Sunspots, Granules

Figure 7.2  The Photosphere



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Figure 7.3 The Sun Rotating



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Figure 7.4 Close up view of photosphere showing granules.

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