On Mon Jun-01-2015 08:25, Damon A. Getsman (1:340/200) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 DAG>   Re:  Weather
 DAG>   By: Roger Nelson to All on Sat May 30 2015 10:46:04

 RN> MAGNETIC FILAMENTS ON THE SUN: With no sunspots actively flaring this
 RN> weekend, solar activity is low. Or is it? There's more to solar activity
 RN> than sunspots and flares. "I can't recall ever seeing as many magnetic
 RN> filaments on the sun as I have this month," points out amateur
 RN> astronomer
 RN> John W. O'Neal of Amherst, Ohio. "This composite image is my tribute to
 RN> the filament-ridden sun of May 2015." 

 DAG>   I've got to say, I haven't been watching the sun for that long;
 DAG> basically just since the start of the maxima this time around, but
 DAG> the amount of filaments on there is breathtaking lately.  I guess
 DAG> I don't know from experience that it's a huge amount compared to
 DAG> normal for this part of settling into the minima, but the very
 DAG> fact that some of these filaments are large enough so that, if
 DAG> they launched in the right vector, they could set us back to the
 DAG> stone age really blows my mind a bit.

Yeah.  Before we had all of those satellites in orbit, there wasn't much news
to frighten us, with the possible exception of Halley's Comet and some
wandering meteors.


Regards,

Roger 
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