G1 Geomagnetic Storm

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G1 Geomagnetic Storm

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Hi all,

Earth was struck by a minor CME last night resulting in a G1 Geomagnetic storm (Planetary K-index (Kp5)) creating beautiful aurora. The geomagnetic environment has calmed down for the time being, but might increase again over the next 24hrs as Earth passes through the plasma wake.
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Thanks for looking.

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Cool fish indeed!


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Great presentation Stu - that kit is really working well. Just downloaded your pdf on how you built it - very tempting!


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Hi Stuart

great stuff, thanks for the report


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Thanks Stu and I must say I have enjoyed reading your contributions this year I just wished I lived at a lower latitude down here to appreciate those Aurora


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Fantastic Stu :bow wouldn't it be nice to have clear skies and a large impact over Christmas :hamster:

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Montana wrote:Fantastic Stu :bow wouldn't it be nice to have clear skies and a large impact over Christmas :hamster:

Alexandra
And a huge power cut at the same time to kill all the streetlights ;)


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marktownley wrote:
Montana wrote:Fantastic Stu :bow wouldn't it be nice to have clear skies and a large impact over Christmas :hamster:

Alexandra
And a huge power cut at the same time to kill all the streetlights ;)
He He.....sure would you two.

Thanks everyone for your continued support.

Mike, why not give it a go? All I will say is that temperature stability is as important as having a magnetically quite location to place the sensor. The heterodyne circuitry seems to be temperature sensitive, giving rise to a degree of frequency drift between daytime and night-time temperatures. Since producing the tutorial document, I've modified the housing for the 'bat detector' and I now have it located within a vacuum flask which itself is inside a picnic cool box to try to minimise and smooth out ambient temperature excursions. This seems to work quite well most of the time. I need to take some photos of the set-up and post them in the tutorial.

If you do give it a go, let me know and I'll send you a copy of the Excel spreadsheet which I use to filter some noise and plot the charts.

Cheers and Merry Christmas to everyone.

Stu.


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Thanks Stu :bow2
I'm going to order the Bat5 anyway as a dual purpose toy and I'll have a look for the other components after Xmas :P
It's been a while since I got my soldering iron hot so I feel the urge for an electronics project
Pity I didn't think about this when I had a 1m deep hole dug out for my pier but I'm sure I can find another spot :lol: ;) :lol:


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Somewhere away from any lumps of iron! :lol:

Stu.


H-alpha, WL and Ca II K imaging kit for various image scales.
Fluxgate Magnetometers (1s and 150s Cadence).
Radio meteor detector.
More images at http://www.flickr.com/photos/solarcarbon60/
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