12th February - Monthly Zoom Solarchat ***Now with link***

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Post by Montana »

I'm very excited to share with you that Tom Bridgeman who works for NASA will be joining us for the February monthly Zoom chat. Mark this date in your diary now!

Here is the link:

Topic: Solarchat Monthly Hangout on Zoom
Time: 12th February 18:00 UTC

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5813691822

Meeting ID: 581 369 1822
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He is currently the primary heliophyisics visualization person working at the SVS and this is an example of some of the things he does
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/search/?nasa_ ... &people=12

His questions for us are, what would we like him to cover in a short presentation and do you have any burning questions you would like to ask about the SDO data?

Please let us know as soon as possible so that we can get back to him.

Thanks Shawn (SJohnson) for making this happen :bow2

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Great news, thank you Shawn and Alexandra ! Looking forward to the meeting…

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Something I have wondered has to do with with the phenomenon we saw last week with the X1 flare that occurred but was preceded by smaller eruptions starting on the west limb that progressed to the big flare and are these events related or just an amazing coincidence since they occurred in a sequence.


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Thank you for getting the post up Alexandra! I'll relay the interest to Tom after there's been enough time for everyone to see it so he will be able to prepare.

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Really looking forwards to this Sol Chat Zoom. Here is a link to an animation I made back on the 18th November 2022 of the region around AR3147. My question is that there appears to be an interaction/connection with the bright flare in AR3147 and another at the same time to the West. Is this coincidence or can (and how) a flare cover such a huge distance which I estimated to be around 150000km (near the diameter of Jupiter)?

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I certainly won't miss this one. The NASA SDO is among my most used resources for solar data.


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Do you have any queries James?

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Montana wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 7:36 am Do you have any queries James?

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This is fantastic. Looking forward to the meeting!

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I'm looking forward to the meeting, I bought a new webcam so I can use my main PC and not a tiny laptop.

The meeting is at 18.00 UTC can we log in before then?


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Martin_S wrote: Wed Jan 18, 2023 8:06 pm I'm looking forward to the meeting, I bought a new webcam so I can use my main PC and not a tiny laptop.

The meeting is at 18.00 UTC can we log in before then?


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Thanks Peter


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Hi Alexandra,

Any image processing tips from Tom would be more than welcome, if he can share anything with us? :D

My question is, are there any pro/am collaboration opportunities with NASA’s solar physics team that we can contribute to? I wonder if our hi-res images of the chromosphere, or photosphere, might be of any scientific value in addition to their own data.

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I’m sure this zoom meeting will be good but how do I tune in.


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There will be a Zoom link posted nearer the time :)

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I hope to attend.


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I'm looking forward to it. I exchanged emails with Tom yesterday to give him the Zoom link and he confirmed we are all set for Sunday. See you then!


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Thanks for a great meeting everyone. Thanks to Shawn for organising and especially to Tom for such an informative presentation!


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Great to see everyone and a great presentation


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Happy to be able to attend this meeting very entertaining. Thankyou Shawn for arranging. Hello everyone

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After the meeting Tom sent me a list of the links and references he showed.

Scientific Visualization Studio


https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov




HelioViewer & JHelioViewer


https://helioviewer.org/Interactive web page


https://www.jhelioviewer.org/Application




Citizen Science Projects




Aurorasaurus


https://aurorasaurus.org/


Tracking aurora sightings




Sungrazer Project


https://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/


Identify comets in SOHO/LASCO and STEREO-A/B imagery


Visualization of sun-grazer comet families


https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4343




Solar Jet Hunter


https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/sop ... jet-hunter


Identify jets ejecting material off the Sun




HamSCI


https://hamsci.org/


Ham radio operators monitoring the ionosphere and near-earth space




GLOBE Observer


https://observer.globe.gov/do-globe-observer


Environmental and Climate studies




HARP(Heliophysics Audified:Resonances in Plasmas)


https://listen.spacescience.org/


Listening for plasma waves




Eclipse Soundscapes


https://eclipsesoundscapes.org/


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Radio JOVE Project


https://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov/


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I really enjoyed the meeting. Tom was great at his presentation on the meeting. I am very grateful to Tom and NASA for making data from their various missions available to the general public where we can access it. Like Alexandra stated SDO is very valuable to our observing programs. I was also really pleased that he brought up HelioViewer. It's a great viewing and editing tool for SDO, SOHO, Hinode etc data. I just wish they could integrate the NSO GONG data into it.

I really like the idea of NASA being able to access our data. As Tom said, Amateur astronomers are among the few in amateur STEM fields that can still provide useful data to the professional community.

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Thank you Shawn for bringing him. It was interesting and gave us some new resources.

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This was a great session today, with the presentation by Tom and a record attendance too ;)

Nice to see everyone again, and look forward to March.

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Thanks to Tom for the super informative presentation. Thanks also to Shawn for inviting Tom. Thanks Stephen and your whole admin team for events/monthly Zooms, they are sincerely appreciated. And of course to the fun n friendly crew that attend each month. BravO to all!

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Again

I totally missed it. I guess I need to set an alarm :shock:


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It was absolutely fabulous and I thoroughly enjoyed it :)

Thanks Tom and thank you Shawn :hamster:

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Very interesting and informative. Thank you so much Tom and everyone.

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It was awesome! Thanks Stephen, Tom and Shawn!


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I enjoyed it very much. Nice to put faces to names.
Thank you Stephen, Tom and Sawn.

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