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Soon after, in 1609 and 1610 respectively, Harriot turned his attention towards the physical aspects of the Moon and his observations of the first sightings of sunspots. [4] In early 1609, he bought a "Dutch trunke" (telescope), invented in 1608, and his observations were among the first uses of a telescope for astronomy.
Galileo Galilei almost certainly began telescopic sunspot observations around the same time as Harriot, given he made his first telescope in 1609 on hearing of the Dutch patent of the device, and that he had managed previously to make naked-eye observations of sunspots. He is also reported to have shown sunspots to astronomers in Rome, but we ...
Sunspots expand and contract as they move across the surface of the Sun, with diameters ranging from 16 km (10 mi) [3] to 160,000 km (100,000 mi). [4] Larger sunspots can be visible from Earth without the aid of a telescope. [5] They may travel at relative speeds, or proper motions, of a few hundred meters per second when they first emerge.
At left is the first cubical version of the original Sunspotter solar telescope, first built in 1978 by the late inventor Daniel R. Janosik Sr. who built them from his home in Pike County.
Schwabe obtained his first telescope through a lottery in 1825 and began his observations on sunspots from 30 October 1825. [2] In 1826 he obtained a better telescope, a 4.8-in. Fraunhofer refractor that was used by Wilhelm Lohrmann to map the Moon. From 1829 he was completely involved in scientific work.
Johannes first observed a sunspot on February 27, 1611; in Wittenberg in that year he published the results of his observations in his 22-page pamphlet De Maculis in Sole observatis..... [5] It was the first publication on the topic of sunspots. [6]
Scientists analyzed famed astronomer Johannes Kepler’s 1607 sketches of sunspots to solve a mystery about the sun’s solar cycle that has persisted for centuries. Johannes Kepler thought he ...
Galileo made studies of sunspots, [68] the Milky Way, and made various observations about stars, including how to measure their apparent size without a telescope. [ 77 ] [ 78 ] [ 79 ] He coined the term Aurora Borealis in 1619 from the Roman goddess of the dawn and the Greek name for the north wind, to describe lights in the northern and ...