Good morning, folks. Today we're going to look at two planetary studies, one on Jupiter and the other on Uranus.
We've also got one of the weirdest but most damning studies on atmospheric temperature I've seen in a long time.
But let's begin, as always, with the last 24 hours on our star.
We had a few more M-class solar flares, including one that released a CME just left of center disk.
SOHO does show that one should miss the Earth.
It was a busy end of the week geomagnetically, but now the storm is over and the planetary electrodynamics are returning to normal.
The solar storm was at level 4 for about 18 hours, level 3 for about 6 more after that.
The auroral data coming in is as astounding as it was back in May, but this storm was 10 times weaker.
We'll be covering that in a special video in the coming days.
Meanwhile, we're still watching the sunspots. They have already proven they can flare, so we'll have eyes on them today and tomorrow.
Let's go to Jupiter, where a very cool viewing campaign was focused on the Great Red Spot and how it changes over short periods of time.
Over the long term, it is slowly shrinking, but it also has pretty dramatic changes on the weeks to months time scales.
Fantastic shots of that here.
Up next, we're going to Uranus, where both Hubble and New Horizons simultaneously took shots of the planet.
The main goal is to determine the cloud movement and character of cloud features, but they also remark how the planet was dimmer than they believed it would be.
Veteran observers here, tell me that doesn't make you ask if the
dust content of the solar system, increasing due to the arrival of the galactic current sheet, isn't impacting the atmosphere in that way.
I know it was the first thing that popped into my head.
Top science article is this one.
They found perhaps the silliest, but still very relevant, reason for why atmospheric temperatures appear to be going up so much.
In addition to everything else we have covered on that topic, the degradation of the white paint put on every single temperature station fades and flakes over time, increasing the absorption of solar radiation.
You can't believe how much this has skewed the temperature readings.
Basically, take almost half of the heating we're told has taken place and throw it in the trash from just this one problem.
Folks, today is the Garden and Foraging event and my Q&A is afterwards at Observer Ranch.
Link is below and there is still time to book.
There's also a link to my 40th birthday and that sponsor stepped in and said the next several people who register using the promo code "BenIs40" will get about 50% off their ticket.
That's on October 19th.
Links to those are below and you can always go book a time to come see us at Observer Ranch dot com.
Can't wait to meet more of you face to face.
We greatly appreciate your support.
We'll do this all again tomorrow.
Right here, right now, at 6am in the new valley of the sun.
Eyes open.
No fear.
Be safe everyone.
See you next time.
