Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario Canada

Astronomy Program II. Daytime Sunny!

Our daytime programme helps our night time observing - when might we expect Northern Lights?
We will use our solar telescopes and filters to help us. You can use the Internet.
First - here comes the sun:
http://soho.esac.esa.int/data/realtime/hmi_igr/1024/latest.html
Also for flares etc:
http://soho.esac.esa.int/data/realtime-images.html
Second - Then hours to days later, at the earth:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/pmapN.html

Now let us put it to scale.

The diameter of the sun is 1% of its distance to earth.
Try the following for size and humility:

Or:

 Write me if you want more - on this or other topics. I will add our night programme soon.