[AusNOG] Solar flare

[Jake Anderson]

You don't need to be on satellite to suffer from rain fade....
my home Adsl drops ~3mbit (50% of the epic 6 I usually achieve) when it 
rains.

That's my biggest fear for the NBN, currently a slightly dodgy 
connection somewhere that gets a bit wet is irritating but not the end 
of the world, methinks a smidge of water against a fiber is going to be 
game over.

On 03/08/2012 05:10 PM, Paul Brooks wrote:
> And to think I held off posting anything when the alert came through, 
> thinking astronomical discussions would be uninteresting!
>
> If your satellite dishes haven't blown away or floated away in the 
> floods, or been affected by rain-fade within the atmosphere, then the 
> solar wind may well fix your quiet evening.
>
> If you have an interest in being alerted to this sort of thing in the 
> future , www.spaceweather.com has a mailing list you can subscribe to.
>
> This came through at 2:11am this morning, local Sydney time....
>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: 	Another Major Flare
>> Date: 	Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:11:44 -0600
>> From: 	SpaceWeather.com <swlist at spaceweather.com>
>> To: 	SpaceWeather.com <swlist at spaceweather.com>
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>>
>> Space Weather News for March 7, 2012
>> http://spaceweather.com
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>> SOLAR ACTIVITY: Big sunspot AR1429 has unleashed another major flare--an X5-class eruption on March 7th at 00:28 UT.   As a result of the blast, a radiation storm is underway and a CME will likely hit Earth's magnetic field in a day or so. Geomagnetic storms are already in progress at high latitudes due to earlier eruptions from the active sunspot.  Last night, auroras were spotted over several northern-tier US states including Michigan and Wisconsin.  Checkhttp://spaceweather.com  for updates and images.
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>
> Lots of pretty pictures of CMEs and auroras at www.spaceweather.com.
>
> cheers,
>     Paul.
>
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