{"id":1857,"date":"2009-05-07T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/big-solar-flare-end-to-the-minimum\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:19:38","slug":"big-solar-flare-end-to-the-minimum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/big-solar-flare-end-to-the-minimum\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Solar Flare &#8212; End to the Minimum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/alan-friedman-prom_20090506_1241624950_med.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 356px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/alan-friedman-prom_20090506_1241624950_med.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332931794746160610\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>From a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/05\/solarcycle\/\">WIRED article<\/a> today: &#8220;Solar flares rise and fall on an 11-year cycle, and last year marked what scientists thought was the solar minimum. But through the beginning of 2009, the sun stayed unusually quiet. That changed yesterday, when a major sunspot appeared on the backside of the sun, where it was captured by NASA\u2019s STEREO instrument.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The NASA stereo images were nice, but the amazing picture above was taken from a backyard in Buffalo, New York by solar photographer Alan Friedman. <\/p>\n<p>It seems like the effects of this new prominence will be felt here on earth on May 8. Woo Hooo! Maybe my WSPR signal will cross new oceans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a WIRED article today: &#8220;Solar flares rise and fall on an 11-year cycle, and last year marked what scientists thought was the solar minimum. But through the beginning of 2009, the sun stayed unusually quiet. That changed yesterday, when a major sunspot appeared on the backside of the sun, where it was captured by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/07\/big-solar-flare-end-to-the-minimum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big Solar Flare &#8212; End to the Minimum?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-cycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}