If light takes 8-9 minutes to get here, then how does the alert arrive 8-9 minutes before that? Is there a probe on the Sun with FTL comms? Or am I just doing it wrong?
Oh - and I don’t know if all flares are CMEs. You made me realize I have a working knowledge of all this and I need to dive deeper and learn more about it all. It’s fucking cool stuff!
I probably oversimplified quite a bit. There are two main probes that I know of that sit between us and the sun. The alert will happen and then things get noisy in the ionosphere - I’ve never actually sat with a stopwatch, but I’m curious so I’m going to do it next time. Flares aren’t binary - their magnitude starts off low, peaks and then ebbs. I and not sure at what point in that flow do they send an alert, and at what point in the flow do I notice things on my end.
If light takes 8-9 minutes to get here, then how does the alert arrive 8-9 minutes before that? Is there a probe on the Sun with FTL comms? Or am I just doing it wrong?
Oh - and I don’t know if all flares are CMEs. You made me realize I have a working knowledge of all this and I need to dive deeper and learn more about it all. It’s fucking cool stuff!
Answer: Yes
Thanks. :)
You're welcome - I'm always happy to help answer all of life's difficult questions.
LOL. Keep up the good work.
I probably oversimplified quite a bit. There are two main probes that I know of that sit between us and the sun. The alert will happen and then things get noisy in the ionosphere - I’ve never actually sat with a stopwatch, but I’m curious so I’m going to do it next time. Flares aren’t binary - their magnitude starts off low, peaks and then ebbs. I and not sure at what point in that flow do they send an alert, and at what point in the flow do I notice things on my end.