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Old 21-04-2009, 06:46 PM
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Question Quiet Sun Baffling Astronomers

The Sun is at it's quietest in a hundred years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8008473.stm
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Old 21-04-2009, 08:22 PM
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The Sun is at it's quietest in a hundred years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8008473.stm
Ron. Intriguing phenomenon.
and no sunspots.
Guess we'll have good TV and GPS reception for a while longer.

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Old 21-04-2009, 08:43 PM
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Its just taking a deeeep breath, before going
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Old 21-04-2009, 08:57 PM
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Ron. Intriguing phenomenon.
and no sunspots.
Guess we'll have good TV and GPS reception for a while longer.

Rob
That's if you have got TV
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Old 21-04-2009, 09:24 PM
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Old 21-04-2009, 09:55 PM
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Intermediate mass stars like our sun don't cool down activity before running out of hydrogen to fuse and collapsing then burning the last little bit of hydrogen around the core before burning that up and expanding into a red giant do they?

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It might just be that some secondary activity cycle (the is longer, and cumulative with the regular 28 year solar cycle), and that it is approaching its minimum, and when added on top of the solar cycle's current minimum, we are just in a period of ver low activity.

(and I just bought some baadar solar filter film too, so I can view the sun, but have very little to look at).
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Old 01-05-2009, 08:19 AM
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The Sun is at it's quietest in a hundred years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8008473.stm
It appears that there is more in heaven than current philosophy ever dreamed of. So, if the facts don't fit the hypothesis, the hypothesis must change.
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Top time to buy a Lunt, hey H0ughy?
Oh Chris you're a cruel, cruel man

A 70 year quite spell might have to pass that on to the great grand kiddies.
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