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[Propagation] Magnificent Filament Eruption on the Sun, Sept 29, 2013

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Subject: [Propagation] Magnificent Filament Eruption on the Sun, Sept 29, 2013
From: Tomas Hood <nw7us.heliophile@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 14:59:31 -0500
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A magnificent eruption!

On September 29th (2013/09/29), a long filament of plasma captured by
the magnetism in the Sun's northern hemisphere erupted. This produced
a stunningly beautiful coronal mass ejection (CME). Although the CME
was not aimed at Earth, the CME passed by the Earth with a glancing
blow from the plasma cloud on October 2-3 2013. This caused a
geomagnetic storm (minor level), which lowered the Maximum Usable
Frequency (MUF) over many ionospheric radio-wave propagation paths on
shortwave radio. This is often regarded as a degradation of shortwave
radio conditions. Some aurora is also produced, though this event did
not cause much significant aurora.

http://g.nw7us.us/19hP1c3

Credit: SOHO/Stereo/SDO/NASA

-- 
Tomas David Hood (Amateur Radio, NW7US)
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