SOLAR ASTRONOMER

Visit the surface of the sun! Use the Internet to travel the world of magnetic storms, sun spots, flares , solar quakes, faculae , and solar particle emissions. Find out how solar radiation can shut down Earth's satellites and the services they provide us, as well as the sun's effect on our weather. Be part of a national solar study program called Live From the Sun , in which students from all over the world are learning how to study the Sun. Find out for yourself using daily pictures of the sun from earth and solar orbiting satellites how long it takes for the sun to rotate on it's own axis. Use image processing to capture your own pictures of live surface features or use daily astronomical pictures of these features to track their lives from birth to death. When you visit all the places about the Sun, on the Net today, you will have more information than most professional solar astronomers had just a few years ago. Welcome to the world of SOLAR ASTRONOMY!

spectacular image of the sun

ACTIVITIES

Visit LIVE FROM THE SUN

acquire daily pictures of the Solar surface and keep a SOLAR JOURNAL

monitor specific surface pictures and print them out when they arise, keeping track of them from BIRTH TO DEATH

Learn the names and definitions of all the Sun's features

Build a pin hole camera to make your own pictures of the sun

Use your daily images of the sun to FIND THE PERIOD OF ROTATION OF THE SUN

Visit the ACE SATELLITE site to see the effects of solar radiation on the earth's satellites and the services they provide us.

SHOW YOUR STUFF

The solar pictures acquired here in can be laminated and displayed in school show cases as an exhibit

The lives of solar features such as sun spots, solar flares and magnetic storms are a study in them selves.

Notebooks and journals are something students may well want to keep as they proceed from grade to grade. We are in a period of increasing solar activity and the differences from year to year are significant enough to detect.

If a contact is made with solar scientists, a journal of the interaction as well as a tape of any visits can become a significant resource for the school

RESOURCES

Sites related to the Sun:

SOHO

SOHKOH

ACE

Others mentioned on LFS

Big Bear Solar Observatory

CSUN's site