{"id":2228,"date":"2016-01-29T11:55:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2016-01-29T11:55:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:55:33","slug":"very-long-range-sensors-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=2228","title":{"rendered":"Very Long Range Sensors: Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Robot-looks-up.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1663\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Robot-looks-up.jpg\" alt=\"Robot looks up\" width=\"168\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Increasing Chance of Solar flares<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Intensifying Cosmic Rays<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Edge of Space Thanks<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The 5 planets in pre-dawn sky<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hunting for Exoplanets at Proxima Centauri<\/strong>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/\">http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>INCREASING CHANCE OF FLARES: <\/strong><\/span>NOAA forecasters have boosted the odds of an <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/glossary\/flareclasses.html?PHPSESSID=vtbd91vic89ap6lnquqs6mnvh1\">M-class<\/a> flare today to 25%. <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/images2016\/29jan16\/hmi1898.gif?PHPSESSID=kqtq31290ca2a2vfmj7ife47f7\" target=\"_blank\">The probable source would be sunspot AR2488<\/a>, which has developed an unstable &#8216;beta-gamma&#8217; magnetic field with pent-up energy for strong explosions. Any M-flares today could produce minor shortwave radio blackouts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>INTENSIFYING COSMIC RAYS: <\/strong><\/span>For the past year, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neutron_monitor\">neutron monitors<\/a> around the Arctic Circle have sensed an increasing intensity of cosmic rays. Polar latitudes are a good place to make such measurements, because Earth&#8217;s magnetic field funnels and concentrates cosmic radiation there. Turns out, Earth&#8217;s poles aren&#8217;t the only place cosmic rays are intensifying. Spaceweather.com and the students of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Earth-to-Sky-Calculus\/174490502634920\">Earth to Sky Calculus<\/a> have been launching helium balloons to the stratosphere to measure radiation, and they find the same trend over California. Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>HEY, THANKS! <\/strong><\/span>The cosmic ray research of Earth to Sky Calculus is 100% crowd-funded. The latest flight on Jan. 24th was sponsored by ABC affiliate KOMO TV of Seattle, Washington. KOMO&#8217;s donation of $500 paid for all the supplies necessary to get the high-altitude balloon off the ground. <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/images2016\/27jan16\/komo.jpg?PHPSESSID=9apt9mkt2to4v26s55ivnu5vc3\" target=\"_blank\">To say &#8220;thanks&#8221;, we flew their logo to the edge of space. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>THE GREAT NAKED-EYE PLANET SHOW: <\/strong><\/span>The mainstream media is buzzing with news about astronomy: From now until Feb. 20th, anyone who wakes up before sunrise can see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter all at once, no telescope required. 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The probable source would be sunspot AR2488, which has developed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=2228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Very Long Range Sensors: Astronomy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[133],"tags":[139,338,340,339],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-news","tag-astronomy","tag-cosmic-rays","tag-exoplanets","tag-naked-eye-planets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}