Category: Collaborative Global Model of the Sun

Solar observing, Newtons Rings – artifacts of narrow band filtering, use it for good not evil

Drexel Glasgow posted images 14 Aug 2024 on Facebook with title “With the Altair GPCAM 130M. Plenty newton rings” Kirtsunegari posted in StarGazersLounge some animated gifs showing what you likely see when you look at live data, and what the software has to guess at when trying to separate the “really on the sun” things
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Solar Photography group on Facebook – comments

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1278689162297491/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=2820285491471176 Is the reason it is white at the edges, because the many colors are mixed, looking through deeper stretches of solar atmosphere? Can you give particulars of lenses, camera, settings, exposure, filters, post-processing, software? I just joined this group and have not had time to look around. I have been following space based and
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Coding knowledge to “Standard Internet” can save years each for billions of learners

I spent much of the day tracing out software used by the Fu Ori teams mentioned in https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ad31a1. It is badly organized by my lights (My first full time job was “scientific programmer” for satellite orbit determination in 1970) and I spent much of the last 26 years every day looking at ways to simplify
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Most repositories on software sharing sites are badly structured

I am reading the 14 repositories for CASA (Common Astronomy Software Applications) at https://github.com/orgs/casangi/repositories   There are only 6942 files and 1814 folders in total and what appears to be many duplicates. And MANY duplicate file and folder names. A good part of the problem with CASA is the poor methods for file management. If
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Black Hole Hunting can be more efficient if it is a global community. Not many doing their own thing

Black Hole Hunters @BlackHoleHunter We’re back! 🎉 We have new data, a (slightly) different name, and more chance than ever of finding the elusive, hidden black holes that we’re looking for. Find out more here https://zooniverse.org/projects/cobalt-lensing/black-hole-hunters/talk/4563/3230866 Replying to @BlackHoleHunter Black Hole Hunting can be more efficient if it is a global community. Not many doing
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Elon Musk giving back the night sky to all humans, especially those in large cities – lossless too, for study

I heard that Elon Musk was going to put high resolution lossless format cameras on all his satellites — pointing at all part of the heavens, to give all humans a live stream of their part of the night sky. Thanks, Elon, for giving back the night sky. Two billion kids say thanks. @X,  Could
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AIs “could” provide a stable global framework for all topics. Also, Using HelioViewer

Richard Posted on Twitter (“X”): @zdhnarsil There are many Internet topics badly fragmented because groups do not think globally. Solar groups ought to give one seamless “sun”. https://helioviewer.org/ https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/  AIs COULD provide global context, but AI dev groups, themselves, provide no stability. Richard Posted on Twitter (“X”): Experimental view of the Sun, from 02 to
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Global solar research models and data must be open, verifiable, and quickly accessible.

Halo CME @halocme  These supra-arcade downflows (SAD) (including tadpoles) tend to follow a very big eruption as we see them here. twitter.com/TrestanSimon/s… Quote Tweet Trestan Simon @TrestanSimon The eruption associated with today’s X-class solar flare was also associated with supra-arcade downflows, dark tadpole-shaped features that sometimes appear descending above flare arcades. (Footage courtesy of NASA/SDO
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Richard Chats with OpenAI GPT 4.0 about permanent synchronous stations over the sun, creating new challenges

I want observing stations near the sun to monitor it closely and continuously. Sunlight so close, might as well gather some into “atomic fuel”. Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation Richard: The earth has a specific distance and velocity for “geosynchronous” satellites. What is the radius and velocity of a solar synchronous orbit for a satellite
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