I don't know grace..I haven't kept up on it. I just happened on the article. I think we've been in a stretch of inactivity and we are suppose to be on 11 year cycles but for some reason she has been irregular..(maybe she's pregnant)
RADIO-ACTIVE SUNSPOT: Behemoth sunspot 1045 is crackling with
M-class solar flares--and that's not all. "There have been many loud shortwave radio bursts over the past two days," reports amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft of New Mexico. "Some of the bursts have completely saturated my receivers."
Just listen to the sounds coming from the loudspeakers in his observatory. (continued below)
Image credit: Alan Friedman of Buffalo, New York [
details]
The roaring sounds you just heard were mainly
Type III radio bursts, caused by beams of electrons streaming through the sun's outer atmosphere. Sunspot 1045 appears poised to explosively accelerate more electrons in the days ahead as the flare-show continues. Ham radio operators, point your
Yagis toward the sun!
http://spaceweather.com/


Behemoth sunspot 1045 has a beta-gamma magnetic field that harbors energy for strong
M-class solar flares. Image credit: SOHO/MDI
The flares from this spot will reach here tomorrow and the next day. Should be some good auroras..
This post has been edited by Miki: 08 February 2010 - 08:22 PM