Talk:Stellar magnetic field
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Hi Bob, nice job in setting up this page. One comment: the terms "sunspot" and "solar flare" refer to the Sun. The term "starspot" is in common use, and other stars certainly have "flares" (although I don't recall seeing "stellar flare" in the literature). Timb66 11:14, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks Timb66. Note that I only used sunspot because, on wikipedia, starspot is a redirect to sunspot. But I've modified the page to say starspot instead. — RJH (talk) 17:12, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Hmmm. I don't think starspot should redirect to sunspot. Nor should stellar flare redirect to solar flare. Timb66 09:45, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
- When there are separate articles for those topics then the links will point to the appropriate pages. (I seem to recall there may have been a separate "starspot" article at one time, but it was merged into "sunspot".) Alternatively the terms could be defined on this page and the redirects pointed here. Thanks. — RJH (talk) 14:55, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
While I agree "starspot" is the correct term, as I understand it "sun" can apply to any star with an associated solar system, so "sunspot" can be considered a valid substitution. Don't know if the same can be said for stars without orbiting bodies, though.--Scorpion451 21:33, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
I concede that another star might be call a "sun" in colloquial use, but this is not done by astronomers. And using this to say that a spot on another star could be called a "sunspot" is certainly stretching it a bit far. Timb66 01:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
