Sun Stuff: What's up!

[Violet]

Effect on electronics
Cosmic rays are suspected as a possible cause of an in-flight incident in 2008 where an Airbus A330 airliner of Qantas twice plunged hundreds of feet after an unexplained malfunction in its flight control system. Many passengers and crew members were injured, some seriously. After this incident, the accident investigators determined that the airliner's flight control system had received a data spike that could not be explained, and that all systems were in perfect working order. This has prompted a software upgrade to all A330 and A340 airliners, worldwide, so that any data spikes in this system are filtered out electronically.[65]
(Wikipedia)

Dates would need checking to see if there is overlap.

[Wind]

I'm sure someone has already done that...

Electrons took a dive, but I'm not affected. Though the 30C temperature here does affect me, not much good sleep for me...

[Fairy Friend]

Not feeling the best. Energies are All over the place. Pain, trouble sleeping, queasey....After being quiet so long something is building.

[Wind]

You're not the only who has been experiencing pain... I wonder what is causing it, those electron fluctuations or either the massive cosmic ray readings which they are hiding now. My ear is ringing really loudly again.

[Fairy Friend]

I feel like everything is a little more active or unsettled. My ears and teeth are feeling this too. Not sure what's building. Definitely more energy coming in now than a long time.

[Fairy Friend]

Electrons are still doing a lot of diving. A few energy pulses here and there. Some pain and nausea. K index in the green but it surprised me, felt like it was going two be higher.

[Wind]

Fairy Friend, did you notice that Mexico quake? I too have been having nausea, but I thought that it was perhaps caused by the heat here or something that I ate. Sigh... No cosmic ray data for days now, if you have been following my posts here then you know why. People at the University of Delaware, come on. You're better than this, stop hiding the damn data. This is getting ridicilous.

[MorningSong]

Here's another source for Cosmic rays, although the graph is different... but it can give you an idea...



http://cr0.izmiran.rssi.ru/mosc/main.htm

[MorningSong]

Here's another Cosmic Ray Monitoring site.... it shows the various stations and their readings...the Nor-Ambered Neutron Monitor (NAMN) in Armenia went off the graph this morning (third from the bottom-light blue color)...



http://www.nmdb.eu/?q=node/335

Added: NEWK is the sigla for the Newark Neutron Monitor... if you look at the graph above in the middle, you'll see that it is currently offline. I think that's where the data comes from on the U of Del-Bartol site comes from... although, the U of Del does have other 8 monitoring sites in the world:

http://www.nmdb.eu/?q=node/481

[Wind]

Wow, so that definitely confirms my suspicions.

[Sidney]

I am still w/o internet at home so havent been on here but i wanted to chime in here as i too was terribly nauseas yeaterday and off the charts fatigued and i kept dropping things all day lo.g. cant be a coincidence.

[Fairy Friend]

You confirmed my suspicions too. Saw this go offline last night but since it was behind the Sun I wasn't sure what to think about it but I was sure feeling something coming through. A heads up signal. Wow that was a pulse of energy.

[Fairy Friend]

Again I feel a wave of nausea and we just had a little bit of energy from the Sun.

[Nick Matkin]

Regarding the graphic in post 2229 above, how can cosmic rays - which by their very nature come from the cosmos and hit most of one side of the earth at once - have such a localised effect on just one station's monitoring equipment, unless they were somehow locally generated?

Looks to me like an equipment glitch, so I doubt any feelings of nausea are related to this event.

Nick

[MorningSong]

Update from spaceweather.com:

MOSTLY QUIET WITH A CHANCE OF FLARES: With a profusion of new sunspots peppering the solar disk, the sun is starting to look as it should during Solar Max. The question is, when will it begin to act as it should? Solar activity remains low for the third week in a row. Further discussion follows today's Solar Dynamics Observatory white light image of the sun, with "active regions" circled:



Two of these sunspots, AR2126 (S10W11) and AR2127 (S08E62), have magnetic fields that harbor energy for significant solar flares. So far, however, they seem dis-inclined to erupt, and so more quiet is in the offing as the week unfolds. NOAA forecasters estimate a 15% chance of M-flares and a 15% chance of X-flares during the next 24 hours.

[Wind]

Posted by Nick Matkin (here)
Regarding the graphic in post 2229 above, how can cosmic rays - which by their very nature come from the cosmos and hit most of one side of the earth at once - have such a localised effect on just one station's monitoring equipment, unless they were somehow locally generated?

Looks to me like an equipment glitch, so I doubt any feelings of nausea are related to this event.

Nick

I don't know the answer to that questin, but how many times can such devices "glitch", in several different places? This has happened tens of times during the past year. I don't think it's a coincidence. Maybe the cosmic rays could affect different places.

[Violet]

Posted by Sidney (here)
I am still w/o internet at home so havent been on here but i wanted to chime in here as i too was terribly nauseas yeaterday and off the charts fatigued and i kept dropping things all day lo.g. cant be a coincidence.

I had problems with the satellite receiver today, with no visible weather causes at the root of it.

It was a dense day: there was barely sun, the humidity was good (50-60 ish), it was not raining, though it looked like it was coming, round noon here locally. It was not too hot, and still, somehow: it was a warm day with a tension to it.

[Fairy Friend]

Lots of coincidences going on.

[Sidney]

I moved and internet has.just not been installed yet. But i have a very heavy feeling again today. Feels like typical solar energy symptoms,although yesterday was exceptionally intense. The dropsies were aweful. I have never experienced anything quite like it before. I mean i just kept dropping things. Probably fifty times throughout the day.. free entertainment for my daughter..lol

[MorningSong]

New from spaceweather.com:

DARK FILAMENT ON THE SUN: As the sunspot number rebounds from a deep low in mid-July, the chance of flares is increasing, too. However, the biggest threat for a flare today might not be a sunspot at all. Instead, our attention turns to a long dark filament of magnetism:



Astrophotograher Jack Newton photographed the structure on July 29th from his observatory in Osoyoos, British Columbia. Stretching more than 100,000 km from end to end, and filled with dense plasma, the sinuous filament is held aloft by solar magnetic fields. If it snaps or collapses and hits the stellar surface below, the result could be a Hyder flare--a type of explosion that does not require a sunspot.

NOAA forecasters estimate an increasing 25% chance of M-flares and a small but non-negligible 5% chance of X-flares on July 30th.

Sunspot number has grown rapidly:

Sunspots AR2126, AR2127 and AR2130 have complex magnetic fields that harbor energy for M-class solar flares. Credit: SDO/HMI