Solar Monitor Summary
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Credits and Purpose
This Solar Monitor Summary reports the beginning and ending times of events displayed on the N3KL Solar Activity Monitor as captured by WB7TJD.org.
WB7TJD.org credits its source of this information: http://www.n3kl.org/. That site has been collecting scientific data from NOAA and NASA to compile its N3KL Solar Activity Monitor.
WB7TJD.org has logged the Solar Monitor reports from the N3KL web site since June 24th of 2009, and took over 20,300 readings in the first 163 days of its operation. When that log began growing very long, this family of pages was created to summarize the log and reset the log file.*nbsp; WB7TJD.org is the original source of N3KL Solar Monitor activity reported in text format, and WB7TJD.org has reported in text format since August 3, 2006.
The months before we began logging witnessed an extended period of quiet as Solar Cycle 24 took a very long time to start up.
However, starting in January 2010, we have witnessed a considerable increase in disturbances on the Sun and in the Earth's ionosphere. These pages summarize the readings captured by our logger.
Related Pages from other sites
Check out
- NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center
- www.solarmonitor.org/ - These pages contain near-realtime and archived information on active regions and solar activity, including images and movies of the solar disc.
- Also check out SolarCycle24.com.
Summary for 2010
January 2010
Between Sat Jan 2 14:29:15 2010 UTC
and Mon Jan 4 00:32:22 2010 UTC, about 34 hours:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
Again, between Sat Jan 9 15:27:32 2010 UTC
and Sun Jan 10 14:32:58 2010 UTC, about 23 hours, we had:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
Between Tue Jan 12 13:43:18 2010 UTC
and Wed Jan 13 13:06:06 2010 UTC, nearly 24 hours:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
And again, between Fri Jan 15 08:50:15 2010 UTC
and Sat Jan 16 08:27:36 2010 UTC, we had:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
Now things started heating up in January, with over four days' activity, between Sun Jan 17 22:37:06 2010 UTC
and Tue Jan 19 13:26:32 2010 UTC, right around 39 hours:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
Then our next log entry at Tue Jan 19 13:40:52 2010 UTC
and running through Wed Jan 20 18:14:10 2010 UTC, about 28.5 hours, we recorded:
Solar X-Rays: M Class Flare Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
Now the flare continues, while the Geomagnetic Field is whipped up in a storm: Between Wed Jan 20 18:40:24 2010 UTC
and Thu Jan 21 16:52:40 2010 UTC, nearly 22 hours:
Solar X-Rays: M Class Flare Geomagnetic Field: STORM!
And again, between Thu Jan 21 17:29:10 2010 UTC
and Thu Jan 21 17:40:50 2010 UTC, for only a few minutes:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: STORM!
Continuing, between Thu Jan 21 18:53:56 2010 UTC
and Fri Jan 22 00:28:58 2010 UTC, roughly five-and-a-half hours:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Unsettled
Then our next log entry at Fri Jan 22 00:45:16 2010 UTC
and running through Fri Jan 22 02:49:39 2010 UTC, we recorded:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
At last, after over four days, the Solar Monitor returned to Normal at Fri Jan 22 03:48:19 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: Normal Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
We managed to finish out January with nothing further to report.
February 2010
We start out February with an unsettled report on Wed Feb 3 00:49:50 2010 UTC
until Thu Feb 4 00:26:19 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: Normal Geomagnetic Field: Unsettled
Between Sat Feb 6 07:36:25 2010 UTC
and Sat Feb 6 18:19:27 2010 UTC, we begin a round of solar activity:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
Between Sat Feb 6 19:13:13 2010 UTC
and Mon Feb 8 01:14:05 2010 UTC, about thirty hours:
Solar X-Rays: M Class Flare Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
And with our next log entry, between Mon Feb 8 01:23:22 2010 UTC
and Mon Feb 8 07:44:45 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
Between Mon Feb 8 07:58:19 2010 UTC
and Tue Feb 9 12:14:54 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: M Class Flare Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
Between Tue Feb 9 12:23:11 2010 UTC
and Thu Feb 11 13:41:22 2010 UTC, around 49 hours:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
Now, between Thu Feb 11 19:52:45 2010 UTC
and Fri Feb 12 11:32:51 2010 UTC, we begin a second round of solar activity:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
Between Fri Feb 12 11:51:47 2010 UTC
and Sat Feb 13 09:43:13 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: M Class Flare Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
Between Sat Feb 13 10:15:21 2010 UTC
and Mon Feb 15 21:01:17 2010 UTC, around 35 hours:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
Between Mon Feb 15 22:13:54 2010 UTC
and Tue Feb 16 00:22:29 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Unsettled
Between Tue Feb 16 00:35:31 2010 UTC
and Wed Feb 17 03:20:18 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: Normal Geomagnetic Field: Unsettled
There is nothing to report for the balance of February.
March 2010
Between Thu Mar 4 17:00:09 2010 UTC
and Fri Mar 5 15:13:50 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
Thereafter it indicated Normal and Quiet, until:
Beginning Fri Mar 12 06:34:27 2010 UTC
until Fri Mar 12 18:23:45 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: Normal Geomagnetic Field: Unsettled
Followed from Fri Mar 12 18:36:39 2010 UTC
until Sat Mar 13 06:11:23 2010 UTC by:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Unsettled
And then from Sat Mar 13 06:31:06 2010 UTC
until Sat Mar 13 17:55:31 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
And thereafter it returned to Normal and Quiet.
Between Wed Mar 17 06:39:07 2010 UTC
and Thu Mar 18 06:25:28 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: Normal Geomagnetic Field: Unsettled
We had a long period of Normal and Quiet.
Between Fri Mar 26 21:36:10 2010 UTC
and Sun Mar 28 18:35:20 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: Active Geomagnetic Field: Quiet
The balance of March saw Normal and Quiet conditions on the N3KL Solar Activity Monitor.
April 2010
Picking up on April 1st, between Thu Apr 1 15:33:26 2010 UTC
and Fri Apr 2 15:20:14 2010 UTC, the log recorded:
Solar X-Rays: Normal Geomagnetic Field: Unsettled
The Solar Monitor has read Normal and Quiet since
Fri Apr 2 15:41:24 2010 UTC, as of this update.
And then on Sun Apr 4 10:10:07 2010 UTC
through Mon Apr 5 12:21:45 2010 UTC, over 12 hours:
Solar X-Rays: Normal Geomagnetic Field: Unsettled
Then on Mon Apr 5 12:37:34 2010 UTC
until Wed Apr 7 21:24:32 2010 UTC, just shy of 59 hours:
Solar X-Rays: Normal Geomagnetic Field: STORM!
Between Wed Apr 7 21:40:10 2010 UTC
and Fri Apr 9 03:06:21 2010 UTC, about 43 hours and 45 minutes:
Solar X-Rays: Normal Geomagnetic Field: Unsettled
This disturbance lasted five days and approximately 17 hours before returning to a Quiet geomagnetic field.
The Solar X-Rays status remained Normal, and the Geomagnetic Status was Quiet until:
At Mon Apr 12 03:54:21 2010 UTC
until Tue Apr 13 03:18:35 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: Normal Geomagnetic Field: STORM!
Then at Tue Apr 13 03:34:13 2010 UTC
until Tue Apr 13 06:19:48 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: Normal Geomagnetic Field: Unsettled
Thereafter, the Geomagnetic Field returned to Quiet.
At Thu Apr 15 00:38:20 2010 UTC
until Fri Apr 16 00:26:28 2010 UTC:
Solar X-Rays: Normal Geomagnetic Field: STORM!
Then at Fri Apr 16 00:37:05 2010 UTC
until Fri Apr 16 03:24:00 2010 UTC, the log recorded:
Solar X-Rays: Normal Geomagnetic Field: Unsettled
Thereafter, the Monitor returned to Normal and Quiet.
The log at the top of the page will pick up at this point.