Here I have collected real errors in the book
by Jack B. Zirker "Journey from the Center if the Sun",
1st edition, Princeton University Press, 2002
H.Woehl, last update (typing error corrected): March 24, 2006

1) ch.2, page 18: The detection of the spectral lines in the
   solar spectrum in 1802 should be credited to W.H. Wollaston 
   (1766-1828) instead of J.Fraunhofer, who found the lines
   only in 1814. Correct is that Wollaston detected only
   the strongest, while Fraunhofer counted about 500 absorption
   lines.
2) ch.4, page 58 bottom and Fig.4.3 on page 59, top: The "size" of
   granules should better be given as its "diameter" ? - Worse is that
   their lifetime is given as "about eight or ten minutes" in the
   text and "last for 5 minutes" in the caption to the figure.
   In fact large granules have lifetimes up to 20 minutes and
   smaller granules can dissolve even after less than 5 mintes.
3) ch.4, pages 59-61: The Benard cells in laboratory experiments
   depend not just on the convection, but mainly on surface tension.
   It's not just the difference in Rayleigh numbers that counts.
4) ch.4, pages 65-67 and Fig.4.6: Neither in the text nor in the
   caption to the figure the scale of the subimages is given. I guess
   it is a few 1000 km. It would also to be helpfull to have an idea 
   about the gray-scale-coding, either by a 'code bar' transforming 
   grey-scales to values or at least by the minima and maxima in each
   subimage...In addition: its again a terrible grey-scale image for
   me.
5) ch.5, page 83, 15th line from the bottom: There is a reference
   given to Figure 5.9, it should read 5.8
6) ch.5, page 84, 4th line from the bottom: It is unclear whether the
   old Figure 5.8, cited here was skipped, because the caption of Fig.5.8
   indicate data of Grec and Fossat, not of the Birmingham group...
7) ch.6, page 99, 8th line from the top: The granules, each as large
   as Brazil, packed edge to edge... - The mean diameter of granules is
   about 1000 km - Brazil or Alaska (cited in chapter 1, page 12 in the
   caption to Fig.1.7 and in chapter 4, page 58, 5th line from the
   bottom) - are both larger and Brazil is even about 5 times as large
   as Texas...In addition there is an intergranular net between the
   granules, so they are not really "packed edge to edge". See e.g.
   the Fig. 4.3, page 59 - although its a rather bad image by todays
   standards.
8) ch.6, page 102,at the bottom: See remark (1) - the credit for the
   detection is now given to Wollaston, but the year is wrong, instead
   of 1814 it should read 1802.
9) ch.7, page 120, bottom: It was not "just as a hobby", that Schwabe
   started to observe sunspots, but he was searching for a planet between
   Mercury and the sun, the famous 'Vulcan'. As many astronomers of his
   time expected, such a planet could be detected during the passage
   on the disk of the sun...[See the biographies of Schwabe, e.g. in
   the INTERNET: http://www.plicht.de/chris/32schwab.htm]
10) ch.7, page 138 : There are two famous sites on the Canary Island:
   The one mentioned in the text is on the most western of the group
   of islands. Its name is "La Palma". The french-italian telescope
   THEMIS is not there ! It stands nearby the german Vacuum Tower Telescope
   on the main Canary Island called "Tenerife". For details of the
   site selection for solar telescopes on the Canary Islands
   see e.g.: Brandt and Woehl: Astron.Astrophys. 109, 77 (1982).
11) ch.9, Fig. 9.7: There is no information given about the wavelengths
   of light in which this image of a sunspot was taken. I doubt it was
   in "white light" - maybe H alpha ?
12) ch.9, page 164, line 2: When a fact was reported more than 20 years ago, 
   its not "recent" in scientific publication standards: See the report
   about sunspot contrasts by Albregtsen, F., Maltby, P. in Solar Physics, 
   vol. 71, June 1981, p. 269-283
13) ch.12, page 231, 14th line from the bottom: Figure 11.8 is a model
   of the "magnetic carpent", maybe the author refers to Fig.11.4 here -
   again one of very poor quality...Hopefully O.Engvold had better examples
   available when examing the movies of R.Dunn...
14) ch.13, page 237, middle: H.Schwabe observed the sunspots very frequently
   from 1826 until 1843 and then announced a period of the sunspot cycle of
   10 years.