/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9998769
/x/ tards and /pol/ tards said it’s “muh sundoom carrington” which is stupid as fuck and solar storm already fucking over.

>>9999384
I don't give a fuck what they have to say. I want to know what someone who stares at the sun through a telescope all day has to say

>>9999712
THIS

op clearly asked for opinion of an astronomer, or at least someone educated

>>9998769
Astronomer here. Something big is about to happen

>>9998769
>>>/x/

>>9999721

I don't think so, but let's keep an eye on it:

http://www.spaceweather.com/
http://www.solen.info/solar/
http://cosmicrays.oulu.fi/
http://sidc.be/silso/
http://isgi.unistra.fr/
http://www-app3.gfz-potsdam.de/kp_index/ql_bar.gif
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts

Last week there was a thread where anon received data directly from satellites with a homemade antenna to get images of Earth. Supposedly that same satellite also takes images of the sun.
Unfortunately, flat-Earthers made a trainwreck of that thread after 2 posts. Would be nice if we could have talked about satellite imaging so maybe another anon could do the same thing to look at the sun.

>>9999770
how would one make an antenna at home? what materials and/or items would i need to buy and acquire? sounds fun as heck

>>9998769
> Solar astronomers evacuate
> The President of the United States starts pushing for a Space Force branch of the U.S. military
Coincidence?

>>9998769
>NASA is the only space agency in the world that observes the sun

Bump?
Bump

>>9998769
For once I will not shitpost to engage tinfoil neckbeards
there's a lowkey leak going around that the chinese planted antennas to spy on a US military base 1 mile away from the observatory
It's not aliens

>>10000630
something like this or another world power fucking around seem infinitely more feasible than
>muh nibiru

>>10000195
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=111&v=jGWFg7EDnyY

Antenna is the easy bit. Hard part is signal amplifiers and getting the software set up. Fortunately you can find most software needed on github.

>>10000630
well fucking obviously, but can we feed this conspiracy theory so that solar astronomy gets better funding? Most of the public probably doesn't know solar astronomy exists

>>9999384
Shut the fuck up you stupid kike go worship your 6 gorrilion dumb nigger faggot.

>>9998769
It's probably something worse than aliens. Like an imminent mass-extinction event having to do with the sun. They already know what it is, but they don't want the public to know to prevent panic, so they canned the observatory before it could tip us off.

>>9999721

Senior Astronomer here, this guy is full of shit. His actual degree was in Computer Science and he's just a glorified secretary at our observatory.

>>9999384
>expecting anything else from the two dumbest groups of people alive

>>10000903
so... you mean... something EVEN BIGGER THAN THAT is about to happen?

>unusual absence of sunspots for prolonged period of time
It's going to be a superflare that will plunge the world into darkness and chaos for the foreseeable future.

>muh sundoom
Why brainlets think Nasa and US is the only one who can observe the sun?

>>9999712
>I want to know what someone who stares at the sun through a telescope all day has to say
ARGH I'M BLIND

>>10000942
that's the joke. You can safely stare at the sun all day using a telescope with a solar filter or a solar telescope.

>>9999770
>>10000195
you can get weather sat images from ancient analog sats NOAA 15, 18 & 19 by building a QFH antenna
''https''://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/weather-satellite/

or...
>Back in October/November of 2016 Lucas Teske showed us how to receive weather satellite images from the GOES line of geostationary satellites with an Airspy SDR (and possibly an RTL-SDR too), dish antenna and the decoding software that he created.
''https''://www.rtl-sdr.com/setting-up-a-goes-weather-satellite-antenna-system/

and a later follow up article
''https''://www.rtl-sdr.com/receiving-goes-16-weather-satellite-images-with-the-open-satellite-project/

Please explain why a half dozen observatories shut down around the world at the same-ish time. That shit is haunting my soul.

>>10001062
Could be funding cuts. This scares me a hell of a lot more than aliens.

>>10001062
solarologist strike

>>9998769
My father used to fire inspect Sunspot and other facilities around there for the federal government. There have been problems before of foreign nationals using the area (not sunspot itself nor it's equipment) to conduct surveillance on WSMR.

I suspect this may be related in some way.

>>9998769
Why would one observatory be evacuated?

>>10001187
It's not just one, read the thread

>>10001212
Yeah, I saw that post, and yet I still haven't seen any actual confirmation of that fact.

>>10001216
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-11/national-solar-observatory-mysteriously-closed-geomagnetic-storm-looms

>>10000215
If Earth was under attack, I don't think President Big Boy is in the position to do anything about it. More likely he watched Starship Troopers recently.

>>10001223
That's the same observatory, where are the others? It's not even the only solar observatory in the US.

>>10001234
why must /sci/ ruin anything fun? this is why no one likes you

>it's another "US government magically controls the entire world and stopped all of the 100+ observatories around the world from reporting the imminent solar flare doomsday" episode
Do people really believe that if the world was about to end, it wouldn't leak to the public?

>>10001267
The NSA surveillance didn't leak for many many years. If this were a matter of life and death, that would be too long before the extinction event hit

>>10001008
Neat

>>10001267

Americans have a hard time grasping the idea that they're not the center of the universe.

>>10001179
It is right outside of Alamogordo.

>>10001267
Even when we have a large number of credible scientists with huge bodies of literature behind them saying we're approaching an apocalypse (global warming) people don't believe them. The EPA could announce a coming solar explosion that will exterminate all life within the hour and most people would just laugh it off as 'hysterical scientists' while others would call it a globalist conspiracy.

>>10001247
Fuck off, if you want “fun” why don’t you go to /x/ or /pol/ and stay there.

>>10001286
>compared an espionage program to the sun where everyone with decent telescope can see what’s going on in there
Retard

>>10001336
Global warming drowned in a political swamp so a lot of people who don't believe it just do it out of a kneejerk reaction against the 'ideologies' of the parties that support it. It's also a slow process that most people can't observe by themselves and need at least some knowledge in order to understand any facts that are thrown their way. I'm pretty sure it govt officials come out and say 'doomsday solar event incoming in 2 days' majority of people will believe it.

https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-images/soho

>>10001499

If you watch the 48 hour video there’s clearly an alien space ship at 16 seconds.

>>10000861
>my insane retarded ignorant alarmism is being called out
>better act insane, retarded and ignorant

>>10001234
Did you even read the article? Scroll down you fucking faggot.

Fucking hell, you're gonna get erased by a cosmic fart and you won't even see it coming.

>bored LARPers on /pol/ start some dumb shit about the end of the world
>equally retarded people easily conned by said LARPing then run to /sci/ to freak out and make threads about it
just let it end already

>>10001699
but bruh i scared

>>10001714
No reason fren

>>10001717
now i better

Why did the moon cross the camera from two different directions?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLdHksmAJo4
5:05

>>10000997
until it heats up and cracks

>>10001724

>>10001724
>>10001736
Funny enough someone just answered my question on /pol/
Basically the camera (satellite) is orbiting the earth and in relation to the moon's orbit the camera changed direction as it orbited
pict anon posted explains it i think

Uh oh

not gonna lie guys, the sun? kindaa Hot . .

>>10000242

>

inb4 espionage
>good terrestrial telescopes are mostly in US and Chile because of geography (middle of nowhere, high altitude)
>international researchers need to move to the places where the observatories are while also working with the institutes in their countries
>middle of nowhere is also good place for military facilities
>US military facilities happen to be nearby

>>10001637
Those are fucking webcams down you retard.

>>10001742
wew, this relieves me of the "two different sized objects" conspiracy.

idiocy. There are fucking tons of solar observatories etc still open.

The nearby observatory to the closed one is still open.

It was obviously some case of espionage that they uncovered since the observatory is near a military base.

>>10000215

> politicians never cared about climate change
> reptilians like it warm
> now this

Coincidence?

>>10001724
EARTH HAS HAD TWO MOONS THIS WHOLE TIME

FUCKKKKKK

>>10002570
>he doesn't know about Cruithne

>>10000997
you can put sunblock on the lens too

>>10002671
>putting sunblock in their eyes
Fucking ouch!

>>10002671
Hehehe, only in America!

Is the government covering up the fact that we are on the verge of a total electronic collapse?

>>10002830

>>10002861
Not an argument

>>10000903
Galileo here. It's bad, we're all going to die.

>>10002997
pics or wont happen

>>10001286
Akshuly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON#Public_disclosures_(1972%E2%80%932000)

>>10002544
....... you're a dumb ass.

>>10002865
Go fear monger and LARP on your own shitty board, retard.

>>10001267
they screen you before you join any of these secret shit, basically you have to be an NPC

This shit happens every fucking year or even every few months. Remember comet elenin? Remember the countless 'close flybys' of asteroids that were going to kill us, remember ebola? People forget as soon as the hysteria is over and move onto the next thing. Every damn time people get fooled by this, because people are so ignorant and egocentric that they think a mass extinction or giant cosmic event is likely to happen in their short and pitiful existence. I say get over yourselves, to the people who propagate this pointless larping. I guarantee if any great cataclysm happens none of you cretins will have expected it. This sun thing will fall out of fashion and nobody will be any wiser.

>>10004343
It's just /pol/tards and their "happening". They're bored now and already move on to next fad.