Lab Exercise 7 An Incident On the Sun

Rotation Of The Sun 

Read  Laboratory Exercise 7 section 7.3b and answer question 21.



Use the following image of the sun's photosphere to calculate the rotational period of the sun.

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Figure 7.16  Animation of SOHO MDI white light image of the sun for the month of June 2002



June 1
June 2
June 3
June 4
June 5
June 6
1
2

4
5
6
June 7
June 8
June 9
June 10
June 11
June 12
7
8
9

11

June 13
June 14
June 15
June 16
June 17
June 18
13
14

16
17
18
June 19
June 20
June 21
June 22
June 23
June 24
19
20
21

23
24
June 25
June 26
June 27
June 28
June 29
June 30
25
26
27

29
30

Figure 7.17  Table of SOHO MDI images of the sun. Sunspot groups are labeled by number. There was no data available for the days with blanks.



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