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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: ghi on June 08, 2011, 01:33:42 AM
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I read about this looking for weather news on NOAA:, looks like yesterday morning (Tuesday) , a rare huge solar eruption took place, this explosion caused a massive ejection of particles from the sunspot as well as flare. This wave of particles is going to hit the Earth today and tomorrow and NOAA is waining for geomagnetic storms and some believe could trigger earthquakes. Don't forget your sunglasses. :cool:
http://www.weather.gov/
http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-06_07_2011_geoquake.html
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uh oh, this was one of the 2012 doomsday scenarios wasn't it? Starting early. :noid
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I found it funny that all of the Jersey Shore is under an Air Quality Alert.
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I hope to see auroras down this low of latitude
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I found it funny that all of the Jersey Shore is under an Air Quality Alert.
snooky back in town?
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Wow....good thing I checked before going to the beach.
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I wonder what they do on the ISS for this. Gunna check the NASA channel.
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lol, every one take a big breath. It was not directed at earth but of coarse the news had to remind us what the worst possible scenario could be even though it was categorized as medium and not directed at us.
Every one out of your basements now :rofl
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Every one out of your basements now :rofl
No way, i'm digging deeper :lol remember this movie? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j8nuUVByrU
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No way, i'm digging deeper :lol remember this movie? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j8nuUVByrU
:rofl
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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/06/07/the-sun-lets-loose-a-huge-explosion/
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We Earthlings must send a demand for the Sunlings to reduce their carbon footprint now.
:noid
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I hope to see auroras down this low of latitude
THAT would be awesome :aok Such a thing hasn't happened for your latitude for quite some time. (and almost NEVER at mine). I hope you get some Aurora action Meat!
For those freaking about possible power outages to major power carriers the chances are extremely low. There was a flare almost/just as as big in (ok, I'm brain pooting here, 2001? 2002?) that carried no outages on Earth to any well designed and maintained power grid.
For all the naysayers and "scientists" in all the journals claiming (spitballing) that we were going to go into yet another "Maunder Minimum" and another "Mini-Ice Age" and that the end of Cycle 23 would herald over 300 years of no sunspots...journals in 2007, 2008, 2009 were full of such articles, sure are eating their words with the sunspots we've had just since the first of the year. Cycle 24 is starting out quite nicely.
While there have been an extra-large amount of "quiet" sunspots and a correspondingly relatively low solar flux compared with simple sunspot COUNTS (not the sunspot number) since the first of the year, the number of solar flares fueling the flux with class C flares and better are improving.
spaceweather.com is your friend if this is your area of interest.
Good Luck!
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We Earthlings must send a demand for the Sunlings to reduce their carbon footprint now.
:noid
The Sunlings have responded, telling us: "STFU and get back in your holes. It's fusion n00bz!"
Fascinating event IMHO. It will be a glancing blow to earth, to arrive sometime in the next couple of days.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
Anyone want to take a guess when the solar X-rays spiked from the sun on our planet yesterday due to this event? (I thought I felt my testicles twitch yesterday, lol)
(http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/Xray.gif)
Satellite environment around the earth already noticing the impact too:
(http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/SatEnv.gif)
Doubt it will have anything other than a measureable effect on our planet or current way of life, so I'll grab some popcorn and watch the instrument readings.
For anyone who hasn't seen the video of yesterday's solar flare event (and you should check these out, great stuff, it's amazing what technology can do these days):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkW_yByO7r4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14vlh_537V8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xESw6G8JdM
And further distance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKOMajibOIg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCuP3_uc1oo
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I find it ironic that this happens right at the beginning of Motley Crue's 30th anniversary tour. :rock :rock
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Think back in the late 90's or early 2000's there was some aurora here. Just enough to be seen with a long exposure on film but it was a dull red color and might of been one that was a dull green low on the horizon
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Think back in the late 90's or early 2000's there was some aurora here. Just enough to be seen with a long exposure on film but it was a dull red color and might of been one that was a dull green low on the horizon
There was one PHENOMINAL Aurora in 84/85 but I was north of Chicago in Lake COunty at the time. The main solar wind blast hit during the day, IL time and it was a 3-ring circus on 28 mHz! (I didn't have 50 or 144 mHz equipment at the time). The books tell you that Aurora is mainly a VHF deal, but I had fluttery/watery SSB signals from both coasts, all S-4/5. I could contact both coasts but the coasts could not hear each other. SSB Aurora is "supposed" to be a CW only affair but SSB worked just fine if folks talked slowly and distinctly. FM was a washout due to mere bandwidth.
We never get Aurora down this far south :(
I hope you work a boatload!
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A few nights ago there was some aurora activity on 6 meters according to vhfdx.info, but it was too far north for me to receive. Lately I have been missing some of the good openings