Stars/Sun/Heliography/Quiz

This visual image using the Vacuum Tower Telescope shows solar granulation around and outward from a sunspot or hole. Credit: Vacuum Tower Telescope, NASA.

Heliography is a lecture focusing on the features of the Sun's surface. It is a lecture as part of the radiation astronomy course on solar astronomy.

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Quiz

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1 Yes or No, As geography describes the features of the surface of the Earth, heliography describes the surface features of Helios or the Sun, Sol.

	Yes
	No

2 True or False, The Sun has no specific heliographic feature that allows the direct derivation of longitude and latitude.

	TRUE
	FALSE

3 Complete the text:

The longitude (λ2) is measured from the central meridian as it passes through the node of the solar equator at noon on January 1, 1854 (JD 2398220.0) and rotating with the period of 25.38 Earth days.

4 Yes or No, The surface of the Sun is often described by features observed which are located using heliographic coordinates based on heliographic north and south poles.

	Yes
	No

5 True or False, Sunspots are holes in the surface of the Sun.

	TRUE
	FALSE

6 What features occasionally show a heliographic distribution on the surface of the Sun?

	granulation or supergranulation
	active regions
	coronal holes
	the north an south heliographic poles
	sunspots
	latitudinal bands that rotate at different rates

7 Yes or No, The Stonyhurst Disk may be superimposed on an image of the Sun to determine the heliographic coordinates.

	Yes
	No

8 Complete the text:

Match up a heliographic feature of the Sun with a heliographic property:

sunspots - L

polar coronal holes - M

coronal mass ejection - N

coronal loops - O

flares - P

photosphere - Q

atmosphere - R

106 temperature region - S

chromosphere - T

transition region - U

corona - V

heliosphere - W

begin to appear at high latitudes and move toward the equator .

hemispherically centered on the solar equator .

uniform and independent of latitude and longitude .

intensity tracks with active regions .

uniformly active above the photosphere .

tracks with flaring .

tracks with flares, loops, and active regions .

tracks with active regions away from sunspots .

differential rotation with latitude .

track in active regions with sunspots .

appear around the magnetic poles and track with them .

forms a kind of nimbus around chromospheric features such as spicules and filaments, and is in constant, chaotic motion, viewed in the ultraviolet .

9 Yes or No, The first longitude (λ1) is measured from the plane of the "central meridian" as it passes through the rotation axis of the Sun and the line connecting the center of the Sun to the observer.

	Yes
	No

10 Yes or No, The Carrington longitude (λ2) is measured from the central meridian as it passes through the ascending node of the solar equator at Greenwich noon on January 1, 1854 (JD 2398220.0) and rotating with the sidereal period of 25.38 Earth days.

	Yes
	No

Hypotheses

Main resource: Hypotheses

1. Phenomena occurring above or below the surface of the Sun alter its appearance.

See also

• Astrognosy/Quiz
• Heliocentric astronomy quiz
• Heliogony quiz
• Heliography quiz
• Heliology quiz
• Heliometry quiz
• Heliophysics quiz
• Heliosphere quiz

External links

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