BS: Our sun is being naughty

Subject: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 12:16 PM

At the pediatrician's office the other day, a four year old said repeatedly "the sun is being naughty".

I told the parents that in one sense he is correct.
The sun's behavior should be at a minimum now but it instead is behaving as if it is in an extreme maximum.

http://blog.hasslberger.com/2006/12/major_solar_eruption_little_co.html

The coronal mass ejections can go any direction. If a maximum flare hits Earth dead on, one could see Auroras as far south as Virginia.

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 12:23 PM

Check out the solar tsunamis sub links.

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 12:26 PM

Aha!!! LOL So that's why our phone lines are f*cked up. We keep getting static and bleed over from our company phone on our home phone line. I thought it was a result of major power and phone outages and wind and snowstorms here. Maybe not....

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 12:33 PM

Yeah it could be the extreme magnetism that hit us this week but not related to the killer flare that went the other way.

When I laid in the sun with my lids closed yesterday I got an unusually intense purple blue after image. The golds were really super too. What can I say , I'm a color junkie.

I wonder if the sun swallowed something really big from behind where we could not see it hit, would it get indigestion?

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 01:07 PM

If you go further down the page it all gets discredited though.

X9 isn't very big apparently, compared to the X28 which occurred on november 4th 2003. I don't remember much changing on that day.

I was my birthday funnily enough - I can't even remember the party much ... though scientifically speaking that's probably not the most reliable information ... ='p

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 01:55 PM

As far as the auroras being visible "in the northern United States" is concerned, they have been visible in the past as far south as Georgia. Not common, of course, but not at all unprecedented.

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 02:05 PM

well our power's being naughty again....don't know how much longer we will be online today....

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Rowan
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 09:50 PM

They're routinely seen as far south as Antarctica.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: GUEST,Bruce Baillie
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 01:51 AM

...Yes I remember being a 'young son'...my coronal mass ejections used to go everywhere as well!

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 09:47 AM

If the Geomagnetic field keeps weakening at its present rate, the whole world will be seeing the aurora, which although pretty would present a few difficulties, even without a CME.


Of course we don't know if it's a short term blip in the data, which doesn't go back very far directly, and I've not heard about any techniques to establish the strength of the magnetic field from enviromental records, or the start of a full magnetic pole inversion...

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Dec 06 - 09:52 AM

Its about 10% down from 200 years ago and accelerating downward.
We are almost 300,000 years overdue for a pole reversal.
IT commonly flips every 200,000 years.

But the point about the sun is that it is way overactive for its minimum cycle. One would expect the recent activity to happen during the maximum.

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 16 Dec 06 - 12:31 AM

Within the last week, the great website called ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY featured a short video of the huge Earth size sunspot that erupted and sent out a tsunami shock wave that could be seen encircling the entire sun. It's a great site and I highly recommend it. Our radio reception has been poor ever since.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Bert
Date: 16 Dec 06 - 02:57 AM

My Grandson is often naughty. But we usually forgive him 'cos he's only seventeen months old.

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Tom Hamilton frae Saltcoats Scotland
Date: 16 Dec 06 - 07:24 AM

I sometimes see it and I live on the south west of Scotland

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Dec 06 - 10:42 AM

Art, yes that solar tsunami was one cosmic shudder.

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: BK Lick
Date: 16 Dec 06 - 08:19 PM

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Dec 06 - 08:56 PM

At what point does aurora borealis become aurora australis?

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 07:18 AM

When North becomes South ...

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Ebbie
Date: 17 Dec 06 - 12:53 PM

My point being, FT, when one sees the lights in Antarctica- hey, I just caught on that Rowan was being facetious. Sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 12:22 AM

{:-P

Subject: RE: BS: Our sun is being naughty
From: Rowan
Date: 18 Dec 06 - 08:22 PM

Facetious?
Me?
You can't be serious!

Cheers, Rowan