Melia Puga Birthday Event Calander

February 2005

Birthday Event Calander

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The Sun

The Moon

Tides

Eclipses

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Sun Activity

Sunspot Data

Solar Flare Activity

Overall Solar Activity

Analysis Questions for Solar Cycle:

What is a sunspot? What is a solar flare? What is the Solar Cycle?

Sunspots are an event that occurs on the Sun's photosphere that appear to us as temporary dark spots on the sun, darker than surrounding areas. They are regions of reduced surface temperature caused by concentrations of magnetic flux that are the cause of convection. A solar flare is an intense localized eruption of electromagnetic radiation in the Sun's atmosphere. Flares occur in the active regions and are often, but not always, followed by coronal mass ejections, solar particle events, and other solar phenomena. The solar cycle, also known as the solar magnetic activity cycle, sunspot cycle, or Schwabe cycle, is a nearly periodic 11-year change in the Sun's activity measured in terms of variations in the number of observed sunspots on the Sun's surface

Did you have a lot of sunspot/solar flare activity during your birth month and year?

Yes, my average for solar activity was 43.5.

Compare your month/year vs the entire solar cycle graph. Was your birth month/year a solar maximum, minimum, or in between? If it’s in between, is it heading into a minimum or maximum?

February 2005 was almost exactly the middle fot the solar activity that took place during the year.

Lunar Activity

Moon Phases:

Feb 2005 - Lunar Orbit Graph:

Define Sidereal and Synodic below:

Sidereal time is a system that astronomers use to keep time so that they can locate celestial objects. Using sidereal time, it is possible to easily point spot things in the night sky using a telescope. A synodic day is the period for a celestial object to rotate once in relation to the star it is orbiting, and is the basis of solar time. The synodic day is distinguished from the sidereal day, which is one complete rotation in relation to distant stars, which is the basis of sidereal time

Did you have any special Lunar Events during your month?

Saddly I did not have any Lunar Events that occured during the month of Februrary in 2005.

Tide Activity

What are tides and what causes tides?

Tides are long waves that move across the oceans. They are caused by the gravitational forces exerted on the earth by the moon, and a little bit by the sun but not as much as the moon, seeing as it is far closer than the sun.

What are high and low tides?

When the highest point in the wave, or the crest, reaches a coast, the coast experiences a high tide . Low tides are the lowest part of the wave also known as the trough.

Water Levels for Feb 6, 2005:

Days with highest and lowest tides:

Highest: 3.02 ft. Lowest: 0.06 ft.

Why are there two high tides and two low tides every day?

There are two high and low tides everyday because the Earth rotates through two tidal “bulges” every lunar day. Coastal areas experience two high and two low tides every 24 hours and 50 minutes.

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Tide Activity

What are Spring and Neap Tides?

No matter the season, spring tides occur twice each lunar month all year long. Also occuring 2 times a month, Neap tides, happen when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other.

Spring and Neap Tides:

Water Levels for February 2005:

What is the highest tide during the Spring Tide? What is the lowest?

What is the highest tide during the Spring Tide? What is the lowest?

Highest: 2.36 ft. Lowest: 1.19 ft.

Highest: 3.92 ft. Lowest: 1.21 ft.

Dates and Moon phases of Spring Tide:

Dates and Moon phases of Neap Tide:

Date:February 1st and February 16th Moon phases: First quarter and Last quarter

Date:February 8th and February 23rd Moon phases: New Moon and Full Moon

Eclipses

What is a lunar eclipse? Explain and use an image to show when this happens.

When the moon is in the full moon phase lunar eclipses can occur. When the Earth is positioned exactly between the Moon and Sun, Earth’s shadow falls on the surface of the Moon, dimming it and sometimes turning the lunar surface a striking red over the course of a few hours. Each lunar eclipse is visible from half of Earth.

How a Lunar Eclipse Occurs:

Any Lunar Eclipses?

There were saddly no lunar eclipses in the month of February in 2005. This is because the moon was never directly inbetween the Earth and the Sun.

What is a solar eclipse?

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon gets between Earth and the sun, and the moon casts a shadow over Earth. A solar eclipse can only take place during the phase of the new moon, when the moon passes directly between the sun and Earth and its shadows fall upon Earth’s surface.

More information about the solar eclipses:

There was a total solar eclipse that could be observed on April 8th, 2005 and another on October 3rd, 2005. The eclipse that was on April 8th could be seen in South Australia and South America. The October 3rd eclipse could be seen in Africa and Europe.