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Technology Chat => New Technology, Science etc ... => Topic started by: Snowcrash on September 02, 2010, 17:59:20 PM
The sun has finally come out of solar minimum, by far the longest time of no sun spots in recent history (last 100 years).
Space weather (http://www.spaceweather.com/) is a good site for what's going on and this site has live data (http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/satenv.html) of the solar wind near Earth. The bottom graph is the KP level of aurora. This denotes how much power they have and how far south you can see them. KP 7-9 to be able to see it from UK (Scotland most likely).
It appears there is a coronal mass ejection (CME) event going on now (02/09/10).
Aurora last night assumeing you are north (or south) enough to view 'em.
If you view this site (http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/satenv.html) in the next day or so you'll see electron flux is jiggly (can't think of a better discription). The best auroras (aurorae?) are when we get a direct CME and the proton flux goes nuts (high KP values, pun intended).