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Did you know? Here’s a space weather and radio propagation educational tidbit – from http://SunSpotWatch.com – at 14:00 UTC on 2017-03-29:
All sunspots (and other features) rotate from east to west, across the solar disc. But, the Sun’s east and west are opposite the Earth’s, when we look at the Sun. Both the Sun and the Earth rotate in the same direction, east to west. The Earth orbits around the Sun in the same direction as the Sun rotates. When we view the Sun, the left limb of the Sun in our view is the Sun’s EASTERN limb.
Earth is a solid body, and rotates from east to west at the same rate over all of the Earth. However, the Sun is a gaseous body, and rotates faster at the solar equator than at the solar poles. The Sun’s differential rotation helps explain some of processes occurring on and inside the Sun.
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