I am looking at solar flows , with chemical and isotopic compositions, densities and mass.

I am looking at solar flows , with chemical and isotopic compositions, densities and mass.

I do not have a telescope but I wanted to share what I am doing with Helioviewer, aiming to add some features perhaps. If you are far ahead, please have patience.

This is SDO AIA 171 with 15 minute running differences at about 80%, and SDO AIA 304 no difference at 100%. What the difference highlights are the flows. 171 is Fe IX is quiet corona upper transition region. And the 304 is He II chromosphere at the transition region. These soft looking things are not static, they are flows in the solar atmosphere. At least that is my simple picture so far.

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I use a screen clipper to record the screen settings It is hard to visualize what happens from control numbers.

I am looking at flows, imagining Texas sized voxels, with chemical and isotopic compositions, densities and mass. So thinking of wind blown sand and dust is easier that invisible “atmosphere and fields”. My limited ability to see the invisible. And no control over what groups posts on the web for their own purposes and goals.

Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation

Is the purpose of the group to only post Halpha and other filtered images and videos of the sun, taken by amateur solar photographers? Taking and gathering the images is followed by software, mathematics, science and algorithms to process the images. Then discuss and try to understand, convey messages and ideas. To study, to try to understand the world, make new things. If you do not like something, explain why and discuss. Sometimes when you clarify why something seems wrong, you better understand your own directions and goal and hopes for life. Or when you see something and try to explain why. It is the attempt when there is learning. There are 5.4 Billion people using the public Internet now. As the Internet becomes more integrated and intelligent, new things are going to be possible that most people have not even dreamed of. Where and how people learn now makes a huge difference in the shape of tomorrow, and what will be possible.

I do not have a telescope, but if I was facing bad skies, I would turn to studying the sky that is there and try to apply those clouds, rains, winds. light, detection and analysis processes to the sun. And because there is more data on the sun every day online, try to use that to understand what is going on in static and video images of the sun. A virtual or recorded sun is better than no sun at all.

I have never been to Wisconsin, and probably won’t before I die. But then I have never been to the sun either. Both are worthy of study and respect, with potential for growth, learning and contributions. I dream of using gravitational sensor networks to image fine details in the atmosphere and convection zones on the sun. But no amount of praying or sacrifices seems to matter, so best to have a larger plan and do what you can when you have time, not on the sky’s schedule. I try to use all the internet as a telescope to see the heavens, earth, humans, nature, and the universe.

I do pray a lot, but never expect anything at all. If something is important enough to kill small animals, would you spend time working to improve things and share globally online so there are always open lossless data streams equal or better than what comes from your telescope cameras? A satellite camera is just another sensor in what is now a heliospheric network looking at everything, including the sun, 24/7.

The job of science is not just to gather data, but to share and understand it. Maybe “It is raining!! Great! I have been wanting to compare my images to what all the space telescopes have for that event I recorded – including the space weather proton flow records.”