[South Florida DX Association] AURORA WARNING:

Bill Marx bmarx at bellsouth.net
Fri Jul 7 03:17:28 EDT 2006


AURORA WARNING: On July 6th, an M2-class explosion near sunspot 898 hurled a 
massive CME into space: The cloud is not coming directly toward Earth, but 
it could deliver a glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field on July 7th 
or 8th. Sky watchers, be alert for auroras!

SOLAR RADIO: Giant sunspot 898 is breaking apart, sending shock waves 
through the sun's atmosphere and radio bursts toward Earth. Two days ago in 
New Mexico, radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft recorded an impressive 18 MHz 
outburst:




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