Are there any experts available to give accessment of june 23 and 24 solar flare

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Are there any experts out there who can give us an accessment of the recent solar flare activity and weather it is cause for concern and special action today. Will the Results of the flares be felt tonight,tomorrow or monday?

-- y2k aware mike (y2k aware mike @ conservation . com), June 26, 1999

Answers

I'm no expert, but the following site may interest you.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

-- Bob Brock (bbrock@i-america.net), June 26, 1999.


I follow the site at :

Noaa/GOES/SOHO

From there you can also see the soho pictures (usually) and a bunch of other stuff (warning, this sometimes crashes my browser)

Soho Pictures, etc

The magnetic storm you were expecting already arrived. It can be most easily seen in the electron flux. it normally tends to oscillate in a sinusoidal pattern, but during a storm it crashes and begins to look noisy. The same can be said for the GOES magnetometer.

The data on this site isn't always available, sometimes the data sources go offline for whatever reason.

I haven't noticed any really good flares above 10-5 W/m^2 in xray intensity. Most of the recent ones are really short and teeny. about a month ago there were some really scary ones that instead of spiking, would rise and slowly decay over a couple hours. That's a lot of xrays. The xray plot hasn't shown any X class flares that I've seen for some time (6 months?) There's been a couple that came close (within 1dB of X class)

enjoy.

-- hunchback (quasimodo@belltower.com), June 26, 1999.


http://members.aol.com/phikent/orbit/orbit.html

There's already been sudden magnetic disturbances... the link above is actively tracking this story as well as many others relating to space and science research activity.

-- watcher (watcher@solarheat.com), June 26, 1999.


My pubic hairs stand straight up when the solar flares start.

-- Raw (Itchy@scratching.com), June 26, 1999.

This is another good site: http://www.dxlc.com/solar/

-- Dave (Dannco@hotmail.com), June 26, 1999.


Hunchback,

Would you mind expressing your views in a language we non- astronomers can deal with? Sh*t, I can't even spell it!

-- Mike_ (midwestmike_@hotmail.com), June 27, 1999.


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