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PostPosted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:50 pm 
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Space Weather News for Jan. 19, 2011
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EARTH-DIRECTED FLARE: Active sunspot 1401 erupted today, Jan. 19th, for more than an hour around 16:00 UT. The long-duration blast produced an M3-class solar flare and a CME that appears to be heading toward Earth. Forecasters say strong geomagnetic storms are possible when the cloud arrives during the late hours of Jan. 21st. High-latitude (and possibly middle-latitude) sky watchers should be alert for auroras this weekend. Check http://spaceweather.com for movies and updates.

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I'll be hiding in my Faraday cage all day the 21st then. :doom:

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:42 am 
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AN. 22ND CME IMPACT: Arriving a little later than expected, a coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field at 0617 UT on Jan. 22nd. According to analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the CME strongly compressed Earth's magnetic field and briefly exposed satellites in geosynchronous orbit to solar wind plasma. For the next 24 hours, Earth's magnetic field reverberated from the impact, stirring bright auroras around the Arctic Circle.


Well its not time to hide in your cage yet in fact I find all of this solar shit quite interesting.

NASA Breaks down their Solar storm theory

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogal ... =119864551

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2012-01-23 07:02 Largest Solar Radiation Storm Since 2005 in Progress

The strongest Solar Radiation Storm since September, 2005 is in progress and continues to get stronger and a very fast Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) is headed towards Earth. Geomagnetic storming is a near certainty from this event, pending preliminary analysis no estimates are available yet for timing or strength of the storm. The associated solar flare peaked at the R2 (Moderate) level on January 23 at 0400 GMT (11pm Jan 22 EST).


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ALMOST-X FLARE AND CME: This morning, Jan. 23rd around 0359 UT, big sunspot 1402 erupted, producing a long-duration M9-class solar flare. The explosion's M9-ranking puts it on the threshold of being an X-flare, the most powerful kind.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:49 am 
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At least The End will be pretty...

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/n ... rday-night


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 11:51 am 
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I've been following the danger of solar storms for a while now - they have a real potential to make a mess of our society through their effects on electronics and the electrical grid.

Here's a non-tinfoil hat take on the subject:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110302-solar-flares-sun-storms-earth-danger-carrington-event-science/

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:55 pm 
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yeah all doomsday predictions aside NASA has been telling us the end of this Solar Cycle presumably since 2009 will be the strongest we've seen in 400 years peaking anywhere from 2012-2014. Quite honestly it does not seem to be life threatening directly. The problem is our electronic infrastructure is not prepared to take this kind of hit which is exactly what the before posted article says. Sure we'd recover but it would be a period of 6-8 months before that happened. So certainly not a doomsday....unless your life revolves around your smart phone and/or you freak out. It might actually be beneficial for this generation to get out and stretch their legs with the rest of the world. They might learn actual useful skills.

I'll just stick with Spaceweather being quite fascinating and leave it at that.

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This is real interesting stuff, gentlemen. I've only heard tidbits about solar storms and never really investigated it on my own, so this info is pretty golden.

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Volcanoes and solar storms. Methinks we gots the apocalypse pretty much covered!


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Volcanoes and solar storms. Methinks we gots the apocalypse pretty much covered!

We'd need an alien invasion thread, an asteroid thread, a deadly virus thread, and a nuclear holocaust thread to truly have it covered. For the site's hippies, a "we're ruining the planet" thread could also double up.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 9:34 am 
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Uh oh....the mainstream media has gotten a hold of the most recent event! Panic Mofos! Run to the Hills!

Hey don't forget Earthquakes professor....we don't have a thread for that yet. We already had a Bird Flu thread and we are discussing what to do with Iran (holocaust thread). Alien Invasion can be combined with an Asteroid or Meteor impact since its really the same thing.'

I like your Hippy suggestion.....We also need a Countdown to when the Oil runs out thread.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:57 am 
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Here's a picture aboard a SOHO satellite showing protons hitting the observatory's onboard camera.

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If you folks up in B.C. or Vermont see an Aurora tonight snap a shot and put it up.

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clouded over with rain - won't see anything tonight... :argh:

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The sun is getting busier again...Sunsport pointed in this direction....and oh.....we were hit by an asteroid the size of a small car!!!!!
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/Sma ... 81431.html

http://spaceweather.com/


Like Ducks in a shooting gallery! Happy New Year!

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Space Weather News for Jan. 7, 2014
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STRONG SOLAR ACTIVITY: One of the largest sunspots in years, AR1944, has turned toward Earth and it is crackling with strong flares. So far on Jan. 7th, the active region has produced M7- and X1-class eruptions, and more appear to be in the offing. As this alert is being issued, analysts are waiting for more data from solar observatories to clarify the possibility of CME impacts and geomagnetic storms in the days ahead. For updates, stay tuned to http://spaceweather.com.

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The active sun will take center stage in a live webcast from the online Slooh Space Camera today (Jan. 15).

The sun is currently in the active phase of its 11-year solar cycle, known as Solar Cycle 24. So far, experts think that this has been the quietest solar maximum in the last century. However, the sun has been a bit more active in recent weeks due to a huge sunspot — called AR 1944 — that appeared earlier this year. Slooh will broadcast live views of the sun accompanied by expert commentary detailing the sun's uptick in activity. You can watch the 30-minute sun webcast live here, beginning at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT).

The sunspot AR 1944 is about seven times the size of Earth. A powerful solar flare shot of by the sunspot is responsible for delaying the launch of a private Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station. [See photos of the biggest solar storms of 2014, so far]

"Researchers are excited and a bit dumbfounded by the odd behavior of the sun since the last peak 14 years ago," Slooh astronomer Bob Berman said in a statement. "There is increasing speculation that the nearest star might have already entered a deep, extended era of reduced solar activity. No one in the field is ignorant of the dramatic cessation of virtually all solar storms from 1645 to 1715, accompanied by extreme cold here on Earth, and widespread hardship."

"It remains unlikely that the sun is on the verge of becoming that extreme; nonetheless at the back of our minds flit the possibility that the sun's strangeness will not be transient," Berman added. "On Wednesday, we will review the consequences of that 17th century 'Maunder Minimum' and see how a present-day version might affect our world."

You can also watch the webcast directly through Slooh at www.slooh.com, as well as via Slooh's iPad app.

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X-FLARE: Active sunspot AR2158 erupted on Sept. 10th, producing a strong X1.6-class solar flare. Because the sunspot is directly facing Earth, this is a geoeffective event. HF radio blackouts and other communications disturbances have already been observed on the day-lit side of Earth. Stay tuned to http://spaceweather.com for more information and updates about the possibility of an Earth-directed CME and geomagnetic storms in the days ahead.

Watch out!

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RADIO-LOUD EXPLOSION: The X-flare of Sept 10th caused a radio blackout on Earth. Ironically, it also caused a blast of radio noise. Radio astronomers and hams in the Americas and across the Pacific Ocean heard static roaring from the loudspeakers of their shortwave receivers. "It was absolutely howling," reports Thomas Ashcraft, who sends this 3-minute recording from his amateur radio observatory in rural New Mexico:

"This is what I heard at the onset of the flare," he explains. "By the time the flare peaked, it became almost too intense for my ears."

Advice: Listen to the sound file using stereo headphones. The two channels correspond to two radio frequencies--22 and 23 MHz.

Radio emissions like these are caused by shock waves in the sun's atmosphere. Looking at the CME pictured in the news item above, it is easy to imagine how the fast-moving cloud would spawn shock waves in the atmosphere overlying sunspot AR2158. Those shock waves triggered plasma instabilities which, in turn, generated the shortwave radio emissions.

More radio bursts may be in the offing. Sunspots AR2157 and AR2158 have unstable magnetic fields that harboor energy for strong explosions. NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of X-class flares and a whopping 85% chance of M-flares on Sept. 11th. Stay tuned. Solar flare alerts: text, voice

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I had zero appreciation for the risks involved until I read the article below. Life without electricity for a year? Can't imagine what the death toll would be from that. And its likely to happen again in the next couple centuries.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120308-solar-flare-storm-sun-space-weather-science-aurora/

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Should arrive on Saturday.....if the paranoia is eating at you throw your electronics in an unplugged microwave!

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 10:21 am 
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http://vimeo.com/106051784

Aurora Borealis over the weekend. Supposedly it was seen as far south as Arizona.......

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Dammit...stayed up until 4am in hopes of seeing it. No dice.


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