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Originally Posted by spin0
The Bourbon stars were misidentified SUNSPOTS!
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Yep! His view was in line with Scheiner's. It was Galileo who was first to correctly place them on the Sun and assume they moved due to the Sun's rotation. [I just realized that this was the first claim for an object in space to be seen to rotate. Since Galileo held that the Earth rotated, it made it that much easier to contemplate, I suppose.]
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He named those imaginary planets Bourbon stars to please his king.
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I wonder if he was rewarded for that? It worked for Galileo (the Medician moons of Jupiter), and it worked for W. Herschell (the planet George [it sure beats Uranus!]
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Originally Posted by Miles
I was just wondering why you didn't call them elliptical lobes.
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I should have, but I always picture a full ellipse when I use the term, which is not what is seen.