THE SUN TODAY: 13 November 2011 - Scarface!

WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE SUN TODAY?

TODAY'S FEATURED VIDEO
2011 October 17: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knL-Ot5sLDU (Sun Continuously Flaring)
(the Sun exactly one rotation ago)

MY PLAYLISTS:
Global Warming Quiz 1: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=A4FE7F9615C4B7A1
Global Warming Quiz 2: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=B3464AB11B92424D
Other Climate Videos: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=23062464433DE63C
Other Solar Videos: http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=8D1845B15598D5A3

For more details go to my channel: www.youtube.com/user/drkstrong?feature=mhee
Where you will find links to earlier editions of "THE SUN TODAY" as well as other solar related videos and a series of quiz questions and answers on global warming (sometimes with tongue firmly planted in cheek!). Enjoy! If you liked this video please vote thumbs up and pass it on to friends and relations who might find it interesting. Subscribe if you want to track daily updates. If there is something you did not like either leave a comment or send me a PM and let me know how I can improve the service. These videos are a hobby for a retired scientist; I receive no funding for them.

Also check out the excellent NASA solar information and videos at:
http://www.thesuntoday.org
http://www.facebook.com/thesuntoday
http://www.youtube.com/thesuntoday

For up to the minute websites go to the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
Also an invaluable resource, often with interesting pictures at space weather.com
A wonderful Magnetospheric Simulation can be found at: NICT, http://www2.nict.go.jp/y/y223/simulation/realtime/home.html

There is a wealth of information and background on the various satellite and observatory websites (and links therein), e.g.,
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/beacon/beacon_secchi.shtml
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mpeg/
http://www.nso.edu/




If you want to play with the data you MUST check out: http://helioviewer.org/
Want to find your own comets: http://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/

MUSIC: "Karelia Suite" by Jean Subelius

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[NoWattz]

Those filaments are huge! Estimated to be over 1 million Km's in length. Just out of curiosity, what was the longest filament ever recorded? Perhaps this might make an excellent future trivia question? :)

[drkstrong]

@NoWattz WE dont know what the longest filament is because they can stretch from limb to limb but we dont see how long they are on th efar side.

[FrankensteinFinance]

I am looking into the theory(However remote) that the increase in filaments on the sun could be from the CO2 emissions, or maybe even Plutonium emissions from the earth. They could be even be long plumes of Carbon?? I heard on another video posted recently that now is a great time to own a solar telescope. Or the pin hole camera i mentioned recently to view it safely. wow. It is pretty impressive.I hope it does not end up resembling a bowl of spaghetti. I guess that would not be good.

[drkstrong]

@FrankensteinFinance I think you will have a hard time with finding that theory. Our puny little planet cannot affect the Sun.

[FrankensteinFinance]

@drkstrong In any case, it would be good to be able to verify and study/record these events on the sun with personal solar telescopes.

[drkstrong]

@FrankensteinFinance That is easy enough done. Even a small telescope with a full apperture subn filter enables you to see sunspot development. If you are willing to fork out a little more cash then an H-alpha filter lets you watch the comings and goings of filaments and prominces. Unfortunately to see the shorter wavelengths you need a satellite and a very sophisticated instrument

[drkstrong]

@Starrmaiden Sorry you now know as much about this as I do, I suggest you contact the creators of the simulation and ask.

I am disappointed that my humor is not to your liking but I guess that is who I am - after 6o years that is unlikely to change much. Just feel sorry for my poor wife who has had to put up with it for 32 years!

[hamish12339]

Miss your voice !!

[FrankensteinFinance]

@drkstrong I would love to own my own satellite with sensors and specific cameras able to see spectra of my choosing so until then, ****thanks**** for suggesting a ****"H-alpha filter"**** is that which is needed to see those specific solar phenomena (sunspots/prominences/filament­s) optically in a human wavelength.

[FrankensteinFinance]

@drkstrong I hope those involved can figure out some way of stopping that Russian satellite from re-entering our atmosphere abruptly. I don't know about not being able to affect the sun. The sun seems to be fluid like a bridge that can be shaken and even destroyed by a child if the right harmonic is applied regenerated.

[MissInformed1967]

@drkstrong No I haven't doc but I will backtrack to watch them : )

[loowood2]

@drkstrong I would have done the same thing. Much safer on the golf course. I like the electric cars, something about driving around the coolest garden in an electric car and perhaps a beverage, is just has a ring to it. Ironic that I used skydiving as an analogy. I can relate all too well.