Hi, I just heard that on the Art Bell show that they are expecting more
sunspot activity around June.  Some say that our maximum is now, but I
don't know if we  are  at with the reports from WWV saying that the activity
is low.





On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Martin McCormick wrote:

>         The CNN program "Science and Technology Week" for
> Saturday February 24, had a very short but interesting little
> story.  NASA scientists had captured the output of the Sun over a
> period of time and converted this signal in to a series of
> samples which were then sped up 42,000 times their actual time
> and converted in to audio.
>
>         The sound is like a base note around 100 or so Hertz
> proving that the Sun pulsates for the most part very regularly.
> Occasionally, however, something happens on the Sun that shakes
> things up a bit and the steady hum fades out and becomes a hum
> that also flickers in and out like somebody turning the volume up
> and down in a random manner.  The effect is kind of like hearing
> a bad piece of tape go by in an otherwise good recording.
>
>         The signals were recorded from a satellite that
> constantly watches the Sun so it is not bothered by night,
> clouds, or other Earthly problems.  Since the Sun is a big ball
> of gas, disturbances on the side away from us make the whole Sun
> shake and bubble like a blob of Jello so scientists hope to be
> able to "listen" to the Sun and know when something really nasty
> has happened on the part of the Sun that we can not see at any
> given time.  You might say that the Sun is its own seismograph
> indicator.
>
>
> Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK
> OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications Group
>