Solar Storm Watch

Scanning the pages of the BBC website I came across a very interesting link. The Solar Storm Watch project aims to get web users interested in astronomy to help analyse the 25Terabytes of data in 100,000 images of the sun and map solar storms and coronal mass ejections.

Now as our hobby relies so much on the sun to power propagation, I thought I'd learn more. The project which is a collaboration between the Royal Observatory Greenwich, The Ruthford Appleton Laboratory and Zooinverse is aimed at everyone from school children to astronomers with some time on their hands. After a basic registration a series of multimedia guides gives you a basic understanding of the subject and introduces the type of analysis that's required. You are then set free on some older events to analyse. The results are averaged between observers and then checked by a professional. Its hoped this process will save hours of crunching and lead to much early warnings of potentially dangerous solar events.

Oh and it's fun. So if you want to get the drop on your HF operating friends give it a go.

You can find the website here.

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Mike
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