Earth is passing through a 'Co-rotating Interactive Region' in space. This is a region where fast and slow moving solar wind streams pile up, creating plasma density gradients which interact with Earth's magnetosphere and show up on magnetometers around the globe, including my garden magnetometers located here in NW England.
Here are some data from yesterday and today. The induced magnetic perturbations created as the plasma waves roll over our planet are plain to see.
Thanks for looking.
Stu.
Co-rotating Interactive Region (CIR)- Magnetometer response
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Co-rotating Interactive Region (CIR)- Magnetometer response
H-alpha, WL and Ca II K imaging kit for various image scales.
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
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Re: Co-rotating Interactive Region (CIR)- Magnetometer respo
Very impressive bit of kit you have there Stu!
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Excellent record and interesting reading Stu! I shall be relying on you for updates at the end of October when i'm in Iceland...
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Hi Stuart
a fantastic job , I love your plots
a fantastic job , I love your plots
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Most excellent, when do the text alerts come on line
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Thanks for your comments and support, everyone.
Maybe one day I'll have this linked up to some sort of alert service
Mark, good luck in Iceland. Let me know when you have some time-lapse video and we'll try to coordinate to create a sound track. Ideally the video should last 1-2 minutes and be something like 1hr of real time. If the video is too short, or the real time duration is not long enough, then there is not enough activity to make the sound track sufficiently dynamic, generally. It depends on the level of auroral activity, but this has been my experience.
I know you've seen this before, but this is the effect we'd be looking to achieve. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNpPdOHfeLc
Cheers
Stu.
Maybe one day I'll have this linked up to some sort of alert service
Mark, good luck in Iceland. Let me know when you have some time-lapse video and we'll try to coordinate to create a sound track. Ideally the video should last 1-2 minutes and be something like 1hr of real time. If the video is too short, or the real time duration is not long enough, then there is not enough activity to make the sound track sufficiently dynamic, generally. It depends on the level of auroral activity, but this has been my experience.
I know you've seen this before, but this is the effect we'd be looking to achieve. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNpPdOHfeLc
Cheers
Stu.
H-alpha, WL and Ca II K imaging kit for various image scales.
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
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Will do stu! I now have a mains power mod for my canon that will be going to Iceland with me so no more issues with batteries going flat just as things get interesting. In theory I can timelapse now for as long as I have space on memory card for, which is longer than a single night.
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Excellent.
Let's hope for clear skies!
Cheers
Stu.
Let's hope for clear skies!
Cheers
Stu.
H-alpha, WL and Ca II K imaging kit for various image scales.
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/