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Celestia modding possibilities?
Observations of the motion of sunspots and solar flares, which are usually associated with sunspots, have shown that the rotational period of the Sun is just short of 25 days. But this figure is valid for the Sun's equator only, the sections near the Sun's poles seem to have a rotational period of 34 days.

Another interesting fact is that the Sun can have 'Sunquakes' similar in seismic behaviour to Earthquakes, in 1998, scientists observed a flare-generated solar quake equivalent to a 11.3 magnitude earthquake. It contained about 40,000 times the energy released in the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake. You don't want to be around when one of those buggers goes off ;)

So, the sun, in realtime, rotates about 1 degree at the equator roughly every 1hr 40 mins.