The Effect of Online Sunspot Data on Visual Solar Observers
Volume 40 number 1 (2012)
- Kristine Larsen
- Physics and Earth Sciences, Central Connecticut State University, 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, CT 06053; larsen@ccsu.edu
Abstract
Solar observing affords opportunities for amateurs and students to contribute to the AAVSO. This study explores the use of online solar data and photographs in training solar observers, and the bias effects such data can have when not used judicially.