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Ray Rolfe

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From: Northeast Minneapolis
Registered: Sep 5, 2001
Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Jun 25, 2003 12:51 AM
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I am activly aware of this information. I thought I should share it. Please don't freak out.

Link to the charts = http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html

Link to the Comprehensive data page= http://www.n3kl.org/sun/index.html

Aroural map = http://sec.noaa.gov/pmap


Alicia Patrick

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Registered: Nov 21, 2002
Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Jun 25, 2003 1:28 PM
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hi ray,
i'm definitely not freaking out. mainly because i'm clueless about what i'm looking at.

what am i looking at?

Ray Rolfe

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From: Northeast Minneapolis
Registered: Sep 5, 2001
Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Jun 25, 2003 5:54 PM
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Well first is the X-ray flux, ...holy crap it's high today. The peaks are indicators of solar flares. The Dips are indicators on the Electron flux chart.... eh Well, lets just stick to the direct visual information on the comprehensive solar data page = http://www.n3kl.org/sun/index.html
The Daily terrestrial images section pulls images from sources all over the internet. The most detailed of which are the soho images which they have "Bakeout" stamped over. They come from here http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
Most times you can get live movies of the last 24 hours, or go to the archive and compile your own.
But anyway, the realy graphic mind blowing stuff is here http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mpeg/
Latly they seem to be editing the most intence explosions out! This is bunk. They should just leave the raw data alone. But you can see enough to get the idea.
All technical stuff aside, what you are looking at is the extended peak of solar cycle 23 which should have been over a year and a half ago. But the sun is potentialy going super nova before out eyes as it is a G-class star and we have recently observed g-class stard spontaniously going super nova in other parts of the universe. Possibly related to recent gamma-ray bursts which are the largest explosions ever observed in the universe since we didn't directly observe the "big bang"

Alicia Patrick

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Registered: Nov 21, 2002
Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Jun 27, 2003 10:23 AM
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hmm. not boding well for humankind. welp. at least we'll all go together, yes?

Lauren DeSteno

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From: Minneapolis, MN
Registered: Oct 19, 2001
Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Jun 27, 2003 2:32 PM
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Yes. On really bad days, you can look up at the sky and say, "At least the sun will eventually swallow it all."

Ray Rolfe

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Registered: Sep 5, 2001
Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Jun 27, 2003 2:36 PM
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were all in it together.

Ray Rolfe

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Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Jun 27, 2003 3:10 PM
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latest from c3.mpeg (272.3 K)

THe latest movies are still 4 days old and highly edited.

SOLAR WIND At 17:38 UT
Speed:
760 km/s
Density:
3.95 p/cm3

I've never seen the solar wind above 3 or 4 hundred! Wow this is fast. It is usualy at a few hundred.

Ray Rolfe

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From: Northeast Minneapolis
Registered: Sep 5, 2001
Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Jun 27, 2003 3:17 PM
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C2flare_4.mov (455.9 K)

This is what was going on in the begaining of the month.

For a 30-hour period this week (June 9-10, 2003), at least one X-flare (the strongest category), several M-flares (next strongest), and a number of coronal mass ejections erupted on the Sun (April 25-27, 2003). The still image from the LASCO C2 coronagraph shows two almost simultaneous solar storms as they are blasting away from the Sun. The movie shows that the last and largest storm is a "halo" CME, so called because the front seems to move away from the Sun in all directions, hence the halo name. This storm was determined to have occurred on the far side of the Sun so it headed directly away from earth into space.
And doubtless some eagle-eye observers will notice the white dot that moves from the lower right edge (first seen in frame June 10 06:03) careens up half way towards the Sun before it disappears. That is a comet, probably from the Kreutz family of sun-grazing comets. It is not uncommon for SOHO to see comets like this one heading towards the Sun where they usually disintegrate.

Ray Rolfe

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From: Northeast Minneapolis
Registered: Sep 5, 2001
Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Jun 27, 2003 3:17 PM
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C2flare_4.mov (173.5 K)

This is what was going on in the begaining of the month.

For a 30-hour period this week (June 9-10, 2003), at least one X-flare (the strongest category), several M-flares (next strongest), and a number of coronal mass ejections erupted on the Sun (April 25-27, 2003). The still image from the LASCO C2 coronagraph shows two almost simultaneous solar storms as they are blasting away from the Sun. The movie shows that the last and largest storm is a "halo" CME, so called because the front seems to move away from the Sun in all directions, hence the halo name. This storm was determined to have occurred on the far side of the Sun so it headed directly away from earth into space.
And doubtless some eagle-eye observers will notice the white dot that moves from the lower right edge (first seen in frame June 10 06:03) careens up half way towards the Sun before it disappears. That is a comet, probably from the Kreutz family of sun-grazing comets. It is not uncommon for SOHO to see comets like this one heading towards the Sun where they usually disintegrate.

Ray Rolfe

Posts: 3,263
From: Northeast Minneapolis
Registered: Sep 5, 2001
Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Jun 27, 2003 3:18 PM
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C2flare.mpeg (671.3 K)

This is what was going on in the begaining of the month.

For a 30-hour period this week (June 9-10, 2003), at least one X-flare (the strongest category), several M-flares (next strongest), and a number of coronal mass ejections erupted on the Sun (April 25-27, 2003). The still image from the LASCO C2 coronagraph shows two almost simultaneous solar storms as they are blasting away from the Sun. The movie shows that the last and largest storm is a "halo" CME, so called because the front seems to move away from the Sun in all directions, hence the halo name. This storm was determined to have occurred on the far side of the Sun so it headed directly away from earth into space.
And doubtless some eagle-eye observers will notice the white dot that moves from the lower right edge (first seen in frame June 10 06:03) careens up half way towards the Sun before it disappears. That is a comet, probably from the Kreutz family of sun-grazing comets. It is not uncommon for SOHO to see comets like this one heading towards the Sun where they usually disintegrate.

Ray Rolfe

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From: Northeast Minneapolis
Registered: Sep 5, 2001
Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Jul 25, 2003 6:04 PM
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Dear Moderators,
may you please delete the last 2 posts as they are repeats. An error somehow.

Ray Rolfe

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From: Northeast Minneapolis
Registered: Sep 5, 2001
Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Jul 25, 2003 6:04 PM
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In current news, the sun is still acting ..."passionately"
check it out, it looks like the deathstar http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html

Sam Spiczka

Posts: 1,671
From: Sartell, MN
Registered: Jul 20, 2001
Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Jul 25, 2003 6:56 PM
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> Dear Moderators,
> may you please delete the last 2 posts as they are
> repeats. An error somehow.

Hey Ray, I'll have to get Alicia or Colin on that one. Looks like my superpowers only extend to the borders of the Plaza.

Sam

Colin Rusch

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Registered: Oct 16, 2002
Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Aug 5, 2003 11:54 PM
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What's the latest on the storms people? I'm curious.

Le C

Ray Rolfe

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From: Northeast Minneapolis
Registered: Sep 5, 2001
Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted: Aug 7, 2003 9:47 AM
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Well there were some pretty big blasts on the 3rd and again on the 5th. All together I'm counting about 6 or 7 different CMEs (coronal mass ejections) since Aug1.

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