Credit where credit is due....

Thanks go out to Dr. Steven Lantz, my advisor for this project, without whom I would not have understood the math, physics, or computer science behind this project.

To Frank Jary, who helped me throughout the project, particularly with Mosaic and getting this online document together.

The U.S. National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak Arizona, for the He I 10830 Å Spectroheliogram of the Sun from Aug 3, 1994, which appears at the start of this document.

The Professors at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey (Dr. Murray Kirch, Dr. Harry Benson, and Dr. Hal Taylor) who pointed me to this program and wrote letters of recommendation for me.

This research project was conducted as part of the Cornell Theory Center's 1994 Supercomputing Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) which is funded by the National Science Foundation's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. The activities of the Theory Center are supported by major funding from the National Science Foundation and New York State, IBM Corporation, and other industrial partners. Additional funding comes from the Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Institutes of Health, IBM Corporation and other members of the center's Corporate Research Institute.