SOlar and
Heliospheric
Observatory images are available in near-real time at the
SOHO: Exploring the Sun website.
If you'd like to keep tabs on aurora conditions, or if you are a radio broadcaster, DXer, or ham operator, stop by the Spaceweather.com site. There's also lots of information on asteroids, meteor showers, eclipses, etc.
Here is what the corona looks like visually (only visible from Earth during total eclipse).
To: MozartLover; Joan912; NovemberCharlie; snowfox; Dawgsquat; viligantcitizen; theDentist; ...
2 posted on
03/18/2003 5:13:30 AM PST by
petuniasevan
(cogito, ergo spud: I think, therefore I yam...)
To: petuniasevan
Whoa! Fantastic pic - the fury of our sun is unimaginable...
3 posted on
03/18/2003 5:35:03 AM PST by
GodBlessRonaldReagan
(where is Count Petofi when we need him most?)
To: petuniasevan
WOW!!
6 posted on
03/18/2003 6:48:57 AM PST by
Joan912
(couldn't think of a witty line...)
To: petuniasevan
Spectacular!!!
To: petuniasevan
The best auroral displays in recent years were in the mid 70s. There has been nothing like that since. It was also a rabbit maximum, and there have been no rabbit maxima like that since. With the 11 year sunspot cycle, now updated to the 22 year cycle, astounding auroral displays were expected in the mid 90s, but although aurora displays were frequent, huge, swirling, sky-covering, colorful displays were nothing like the ones of the mid 70s. I don't know if the rabbit maxima and sunspot maxima are actually related, but both have that 11 year wavelength.
31.5 hours.
8 posted on
03/18/2003 9:28:21 AM PST by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts: Proofs establish links)
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