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To: SunkenCiv

Is there some place on the net or on FR with a daily report on sunspots?


19 posted on 07/21/2009 10:14:43 AM PDT by wendy1946
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To: wendy1946
NOAA maintains the Today's Space Weather page.

It includes a lot of useful information besides sunspot activity.

The relevant daily information for today is found here.

Of direct interest are the F10.7 cm solar flux data, which is a proxy measurement of the solar UV output; and also the Geomagnetic A indices, which describes the rate at which charged solar particles are captured by the Earth's magnetic field.

FWIW, these values are generally used for modeling the density of the upper atmosphere, which is in turn used for satellite drag modelilng, which in turn is used as part of orbit prediction.

20 posted on 07/21/2009 10:25:16 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: wendy1946

http://www.spaceweather.com/


21 posted on 07/21/2009 10:27:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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