SkyDataGeek
@curiousenginerd.bsky.social
General interest in space and radio, satellite control and data distribution, solar and terrestrial weather; Work in systems.
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YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER APP IS JUST A PRETTY DISPLAY OF NOAA DATA
Ppl seem to think that "NOAA weather forecasts" means climate-, boat-, or "in addition to my app"-weather. But the weather forecasts *we all use* are made from the NOAA data *we all paid for*
Make that part clear when you ⬇️
Ppl seem to think that "NOAA weather forecasts" means climate-, boat-, or "in addition to my app"-weather. But the weather forecasts *we all use* are made from the NOAA data *we all paid for*
Make that part clear when you ⬇️
I’m thinking we should spread this news about the firings at NOAA as far and wide as possible. Like cancer research, weather forecasting seems likely to be broadly popular across the political spectrum. apnews.com/article/nati...
Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts
Federal workers who were not let go said the afternoon layoffs included meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in National Weather Service offices across the U.S.
apnews.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER APP IS JUST A PRETTY DISPLAY OF NOAA DATA
Ppl seem to think that "NOAA weather forecasts" means climate-, boat-, or "in addition to my app"-weather. But the weather forecasts *we all use* are made from the NOAA data *we all paid for*
Make that part clear when you ⬇️
Ppl seem to think that "NOAA weather forecasts" means climate-, boat-, or "in addition to my app"-weather. But the weather forecasts *we all use* are made from the NOAA data *we all paid for*
Make that part clear when you ⬇️
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All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
February 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
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Check in with those who choose to take lower pay, knowing they will often be belittled, put down upon, complained about, but still take the civil servant job because they have a drive to serve their country... Even when their country acts as if they despise them... They are not doing well right now.
February 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Check in with those who choose to take lower pay, knowing they will often be belittled, put down upon, complained about, but still take the civil servant job because they have a drive to serve their country... Even when their country acts as if they despise them... They are not doing well right now.
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Transits through the SOHO LASCO C2 and C3 fields of view in 2025 are now posted: sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/transits_2025
Huge thanks as always to Sungrazer Project contributor (superstar!) Worachate Boonplod for compiling the list/graphic.
Of note: C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) enters LASCO C3 on Jan 11! ☀️🔭☄️
Huge thanks as always to Sungrazer Project contributor (superstar!) Worachate Boonplod for compiling the list/graphic.
Of note: C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) enters LASCO C3 on Jan 11! ☀️🔭☄️
January 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Transits through the SOHO LASCO C2 and C3 fields of view in 2025 are now posted: sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/transits_2025
Huge thanks as always to Sungrazer Project contributor (superstar!) Worachate Boonplod for compiling the list/graphic.
Of note: C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) enters LASCO C3 on Jan 11! ☀️🔭☄️
Huge thanks as always to Sungrazer Project contributor (superstar!) Worachate Boonplod for compiling the list/graphic.
Of note: C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) enters LASCO C3 on Jan 11! ☀️🔭☄️
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Whoa. I just found out President Biden awarded Bill Nye a Presidential Medal of Freedom!
January 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Whoa. I just found out President Biden awarded Bill Nye a Presidential Medal of Freedom!
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Happy perihelion day! In North America, tomorrow noon will be the closest you'll get to the Sun all year. 🔭🧪
Perihelion, Aphelion and the Solstices
Earth is closest to the Sun two weeks after the December solstice and farthest from the Sun two weeks after the June Solstice.
www.timeanddate.com
January 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Happy perihelion day! In North America, tomorrow noon will be the closest you'll get to the Sun all year. 🔭🧪
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Equatorial plasma bubbles are lower-density pockets in the #ionosphere around the equator. Scientists in Hong Kong have developed a new 3D model to determine how they disrupt navigation in #aviation. 🌎
https://earthsky.org/earth/equatorial-plasma-bubbles-threat-to-aviation/
📸 M. Rayhan.
https://earthsky.org/earth/equatorial-plasma-bubbles-threat-to-aviation/
📸 M. Rayhan.
January 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Equatorial plasma bubbles are lower-density pockets in the #ionosphere around the equator. Scientists in Hong Kong have developed a new 3D model to determine how they disrupt navigation in #aviation. 🌎
https://earthsky.org/earth/equatorial-plasma-bubbles-threat-to-aviation/
📸 M. Rayhan.
https://earthsky.org/earth/equatorial-plasma-bubbles-threat-to-aviation/
📸 M. Rayhan.
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WOOOOOOOW Simply the BEST auroral crown I have ever seen in my 12 years of chasing last night in north Finland 🇫🇮🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
January 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
WOOOOOOOW Simply the BEST auroral crown I have ever seen in my 12 years of chasing last night in north Finland 🇫🇮🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
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This ISS photo of the aurora on Jan 1 is insane!
January 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This ISS photo of the aurora on Jan 1 is insane!
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Wow, insane movement and colors in the aurora over Finland happening now. Check it out on this YouTube stream that is showing real-time video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3LK...
Additional webcams: theauroraguy.com/pages/webcams
#heliophysics ☀️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3LK...
Additional webcams: theauroraguy.com/pages/webcams
#heliophysics ☀️
December 31, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Wow, insane movement and colors in the aurora over Finland happening now. Check it out on this YouTube stream that is showing real-time video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3LK...
Additional webcams: theauroraguy.com/pages/webcams
#heliophysics ☀️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3LK...
Additional webcams: theauroraguy.com/pages/webcams
#heliophysics ☀️
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I give monthly to Wikipedia and the warm glow of contributing to free access to human knowledge cannot be overstated
If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control.
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
www.newsweek.com
December 25, 2024 at 10:12 AM
I give monthly to Wikipedia and the warm glow of contributing to free access to human knowledge cannot be overstated
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Incredible CME, maybe superstorm on the Sun’s far side today—measuring over 3000 km/s, it will truly go down as one of the fastest CMEs ever measured. Had this been directed toward Earth, it probably would have arrived in just 14-16 hours. Most CMEs usually take around 3 days to get to Earth.
December 18, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Incredible CME, maybe superstorm on the Sun’s far side today—measuring over 3000 km/s, it will truly go down as one of the fastest CMEs ever measured. Had this been directed toward Earth, it probably would have arrived in just 14-16 hours. Most CMEs usually take around 3 days to get to Earth.
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Some stars produce 'superflares', which release orders of magnitude more energy than any known solar flare. Vasilyev et al. examine thousands of stars with properties matched to the Sun, finding they undergo an average of one superflare per century. 🔭☀️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 16, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Some stars produce 'superflares', which release orders of magnitude more energy than any known solar flare. Vasilyev et al. examine thousands of stars with properties matched to the Sun, finding they undergo an average of one superflare per century. 🔭☀️
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Attention aurora chasers! Have you ever "heard" the aurora? You can actually hear pulsating aurora in power lines like this video (sped up) shows! The exact reason? We don't know! That's why if YOU have a real-time video of pulsating aurora with strange sounds, we're interested!
#heliophysics ☀️
#heliophysics ☀️
December 15, 2024 at 1:52 AM
Attention aurora chasers! Have you ever "heard" the aurora? You can actually hear pulsating aurora in power lines like this video (sped up) shows! The exact reason? We don't know! That's why if YOU have a real-time video of pulsating aurora with strange sounds, we're interested!
#heliophysics ☀️
#heliophysics ☀️
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Didn't even get to 9 AM on the first day of AGU before an author mentioned in their concluding remarks that they can now be found on Bluesky.
Climate science has clearly found a new home.
#AGU24
Climate science has clearly found a new home.
#AGU24
December 9, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Didn't even get to 9 AM on the first day of AGU before an author mentioned in their concluding remarks that they can now be found on Bluesky.
Climate science has clearly found a new home.
#AGU24
Climate science has clearly found a new home.
#AGU24
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It’s 5 am and you wake up to this in Alaska. Wow. Aurora is going nuts in Fairbanks!
December 8, 2024 at 2:16 PM
It’s 5 am and you wake up to this in Alaska. Wow. Aurora is going nuts in Fairbanks!
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Jupiter shines bright at opposition tonight! 🌟 It's opposite the Sun & closest to us for the year, making it the perfect time observe and image with a backyard scope. Don't miss the best view of the King of planets the year, #Astronomy
December 8, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Jupiter shines bright at opposition tonight! 🌟 It's opposite the Sun & closest to us for the year, making it the perfect time observe and image with a backyard scope. Don't miss the best view of the King of planets the year, #Astronomy
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Less than 45 minutes since the peak of the X2.2 flare with an accompanied CME from AR3912 and we are already seeing a sharp rise in low energy electrons and protons at L1. This hints that we could likely see a radiation storm in progress in the coming hours. ☀️
December 8, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Less than 45 minutes since the peak of the X2.2 flare with an accompanied CME from AR3912 and we are already seeing a sharp rise in low energy electrons and protons at L1. This hints that we could likely see a radiation storm in progress in the coming hours. ☀️
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Decided to create a starter pack to highlight some of the awesome women of BlueSky that are connected to space in some way! ✨ If you don't want to be on this list (for any reason), please let me know, and I'll be happy to remove you. If I missed someone, suggestions are welcome!
go.bsky.app/No8DWnZ
go.bsky.app/No8DWnZ
December 4, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Decided to create a starter pack to highlight some of the awesome women of BlueSky that are connected to space in some way! ✨ If you don't want to be on this list (for any reason), please let me know, and I'll be happy to remove you. If I missed someone, suggestions are welcome!
go.bsky.app/No8DWnZ
go.bsky.app/No8DWnZ
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Resharing these here to hopefully prevent as much misinformation and/or confusion as possible.
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are not phenomena that can be referenced interchangeably. They are completely different phenomenon with completely different impacts. ☀️
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are not phenomena that can be referenced interchangeably. They are completely different phenomenon with completely different impacts. ☀️
October 19, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Resharing these here to hopefully prevent as much misinformation and/or confusion as possible.
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are not phenomena that can be referenced interchangeably. They are completely different phenomenon with completely different impacts. ☀️
Solar flares and coronal mass ejections are not phenomena that can be referenced interchangeably. They are completely different phenomenon with completely different impacts. ☀️
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JSOC at Stanford University is not expecting SDO server repair to be complete until sometime in 2025. ☀️
For additional imagery sources:
GOES SUVI - www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/goe...
GONG - gong2.nso.edu/products/mai...
Both are also available via NASA ISWA - iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/IswaSystemWe...
For additional imagery sources:
GOES SUVI - www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/goe...
GONG - gong2.nso.edu/products/mai...
Both are also available via NASA ISWA - iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/IswaSystemWe...
November 30, 2024 at 8:52 PM
JSOC at Stanford University is not expecting SDO server repair to be complete until sometime in 2025. ☀️
For additional imagery sources:
GOES SUVI - www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/goe...
GONG - gong2.nso.edu/products/mai...
Both are also available via NASA ISWA - iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/IswaSystemWe...
For additional imagery sources:
GOES SUVI - www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/goe...
GONG - gong2.nso.edu/products/mai...
Both are also available via NASA ISWA - iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/IswaSystemWe...
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Some very unfortunate news coming out of Stanford that the solar dynamical observatory has taken extensive water damage to the SDO servers and they will likely be down into 2025. It is unknown when SDO will return at this time. Intensitygrams and real time SDO will be offline indefinitely.
November 30, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Some very unfortunate news coming out of Stanford that the solar dynamical observatory has taken extensive water damage to the SDO servers and they will likely be down into 2025. It is unknown when SDO will return at this time. Intensitygrams and real time SDO will be offline indefinitely.
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Hello BlueSky from the University of Colorado Boulder’s space weather center.
Check out our Space Weather Data Portal - the go-to tool for viewing hundreds of space weather datasets without having to download anything!
lasp.colorado.edu/space-weathe...
Check out our Space Weather Data Portal - the go-to tool for viewing hundreds of space weather datasets without having to download anything!
lasp.colorado.edu/space-weathe...
SWx TREC Space Weather Data Portal
Discover, access, visualize, and download diverse data describing space weather events
lasp.colorado.edu
November 25, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Hello BlueSky from the University of Colorado Boulder’s space weather center.
Check out our Space Weather Data Portal - the go-to tool for viewing hundreds of space weather datasets without having to download anything!
lasp.colorado.edu/space-weathe...
Check out our Space Weather Data Portal - the go-to tool for viewing hundreds of space weather datasets without having to download anything!
lasp.colorado.edu/space-weathe...
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131-Å Sun in the third band 🏳️⚧️
I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️🌈💖
June 14, 2024 at 5:26 PM
131-Å Sun in the third band 🏳️⚧️