{"id":9495,"date":"2021-04-23T08:37:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=9495"},"modified":"2021-04-23T08:38:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:38:47","slug":"solar-flare-c8-6-20210422-2006utc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2021\/04\/solar-flare-c8-6-20210422-2006utc\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Flare C8.6 20210422-2006UTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its Solar Flare Season again!<br \/>\nThis note came from the Radiojove email list from John Avellone, Shenandoah Valley Virginia\/West Virginia):<br \/>\n&#8220;More solar activity @ 20MHz. Attached chart for 200330 \u2013 200730 shows the RSP VI\/1 bursts associated with a C8.5 XRA flare.&#8221;<br \/>\nThis is his data:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/john210422200330-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/john210422200330-1-299x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/john210422200330-1-299x207.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/john210422200330-1-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/john210422200330-1-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/john210422200330-1.jpg 906w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/> <br \/>John Avellone, Shenandoah Valley Virginia\/West Virginia) USA <\/a><br \/>\nThis prompted us to go back to our own Radiojove system and extract the image below from roughly the same time frame.  Yes! Confirmation again!<br \/>\nSince that analysis, we&#8217;ve increased the number of X and Y axis ticks to help more easily identify timings, and the master reference as to when and how big the flare was comes from https:\/\/spaceweatherlive.com\/<\/p>\n<p>As another point of information, we have been trying to determine the beam width of the dual dipole antenna.  This flare helps.  At 20:06 UTC = 16:06 EDT the sun&#8217;s azimuth was 244 deg, which is 244-180=64 degrees west of south.<br \/>\nSymmetrically this should mean the dipole beam is at least 64*2=128 degrees wide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210422-200254anno2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210422-200254anno2-299x118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\"  class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210422-200254anno2-299x118.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210422-200254anno2-1023x405.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210422-200254anno2-150x59.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210422-200254anno2-768x304.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/20210422-200254anno2.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><br \/>SCGO Yarker Ontario Canada<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its Solar Flare Season again! This note came from the Radiojove email list from John Avellone, Shenandoah Valley Virginia\/West Virginia): &#8220;More solar activity @ 20MHz. Attached chart for 200330 \u2013 200730 shows the RSP VI\/1 bursts associated with a C8.5 XRA flare.&#8221; This is his data: John Avellone, Shenandoah Valley Virginia\/West Virginia) USA This prompted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9500,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions\/9500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}