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Title: The sun is blank, NASA data shows it to be dimming
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URL Source: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/12 ... a-data-shows-it-to-be-dimming/
Published: Dec 18, 2017
Author: Anthony Watts
Post Date: 2017-12-18 08:44:36 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 538
Comments: 29

As the sun gets successively more blank with each day, due to lack of sunspots, it is also dimming. According to data from NASA’s Spaceweather, so far in 2017, 96 days (27%) of the days observing the sun have been without sunspots. Here is the view today from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite:

Solar Dynamics Observatory HMI Continuum image more at WUWT’s solar reference page: https://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/solar/

Today at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX launched a new sensor to the International Space Station named TSIS-1. Its mission: to measure the dimming of the sun’s irradiance. It will replace the aging SORCE spacecraft. NASA SDO reports that as the sunspot cycle plunges toward its 11-year minimum, NASA satellites are tracking a decline in total solar irradiance (TSI).

Across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, the sun’s output has dropped nearly 0.1% compared to the Solar Maximum of 2012-2014. This plot shows the TSI since 1978 as observed from nine previous satellites:

In the top plot, we drew the daily average of measured points in red (so there are a lot of points, 14187 to be precise). On the left is a red vertical bar showing a 0.3% change in TSI. The black curve is the average of TSI over each year. The dashed horizontal line shows the minimum value of year-averaged TSI data. The vertical black bar shows the 0.09% variation we see in that average. The bottom plot shows the annual sunspot number from the SIDC in Belgium in blue. Source: NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory Mission Blog.

What do we learn from these plots? First, TSI does change! That’s why we stopped calling it the solar constant. Second, as the sunspot number increases, so does TSI. But the converse is also true. As the sunspot number decreases so does TSI. We have watched this happen for four sunspot cycles. This waxing and waning of TSI with sunspot number is understood as a combination of dark sunspots reducing TSI below the dashed line and long-lived magnetic features increasing TSI. SORCE has even observed flares in TSI.

Third, the horizontal dashed line is not an average, it is drawn at the lowest value in the year-averaged TSI data (that happened in 2009). When there are no sunspots the Sun’s brightness should be that of the hot, glowing object we always imagined it to be. We would expect TSI to be the same at every solar minimum. There is much discussion over whether the value of TSI at solar minimum is getting smaller with time, but it is not getting larger.

These data show us that the Sun is not getting brighter with time. The brightness does follow the sunspot cycle, but the level of solar activity has been decreasing the last 35 years. The value at minimum may be decreasing as well, although that is far more difficult to prove. Perhaps the upcoming solar minimum in 2020 will help answer that question.

The rise and fall of the sun’s luminosity is a natural part of the solar cycle. A change of 0.1% may not sound like much, but the sun deposits a lot of energy on the Earth, approximately 1,361 watts per square meter. Summed over the globe, a 0.1% variation in this quantity exceeds all of our planet’s other energy sources (such as natural radioactivity in Earth’s core) combined. A 2013 report issued by the National Research Council (NRC), “The Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate,” spells out some of the ways the cyclic change in TSI can affect the chemistry of Earth’s upper atmosphere and possibly alter regional weather patterns, especially in the Pacific.

NASA’s current flagship satellite for measuring TSI, the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), is now more than six years beyond its prime-mission lifetime. TSIS-1 will take over for SORCE, extending the record of TSI measurements with unprecedented precision. It’s five-year mission will overlap a deep Solar Minimum expected in 2019-2020. TSIS-1 will therefore be able to observe the continued decline in the sun’s luminosity followed by a rebound as the next solar cycle picks up steam. Installing and checking out TSIS-1 will take some time; the first science data are expected in Feb. 2018.

In other news, as the magnetic activity of the sun decreases, influx of Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR’s) increase as has been observed by balloon measurements over California:

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#1. To: Ada (#0) (Edited)

Our sun is taking a beating from a brown dwarf star and a number of smaller stellar remnants accompanying it on it's pass thru our solar system. It's caught in a tight 27-30 day orbit around our sun and will be there until it builds up enough of an electrostatic charge that will enable it to pull away from our sun's magnetic grip. It's presence can be tracked by the cme's it's causing with each close pass it makes to our sun every 27-30 days. Youtube Planet X news and watch some of their physicist's reports and get caught up. Dr. Claudia Albers will explain.Youtube Samuel Hofman and facebook Montana Sky Watcher/2..Samuel Hofman. You'll be amazed at what you're missing. Time is short. Better prep up, y'all.

Obnoxicated  posted on  2017-12-18   11:28:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Obnoxicated (#1)

It's caught in a tight 27-30 day orbit around our sun and will be there until it builds up enough of an electrostatic charge that will enable it to pull away from our sun's magnetic grip

Any idea how long that's gonna take?

Ada  posted on  2017-12-18   13:46:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Ada (#2)

I'm sorry. That's classified. ;) I've no idea, but some think around mid january. PX News has video taken from nasa's sdo cam showing a large object impacting the sun hard enough to cause a solar wide shockwave that kicked out a wave of plasma encircling the whole sun and then caught the venting of gases at the impact site. Maybe some of y'all more scientifically astute posters should take a look and debunk me.

Obnoxicated  posted on  2017-12-18   14:18:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Ada, Horse (#2)

Oh, and those gravity waves of which Horse speaks are real and being created by tthe presence of said orbiting brown dwarf star invading our cozy little area of time/space. The pieces are there, Ada. Add 'em up.

Obnoxicated  posted on  2017-12-18   14:28:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Obnoxicated (#1)

bullshit


"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers" ~ Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow

wudidiz  posted on  2017-12-18   15:26:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Ada (#0)

For flat earthers this means the man holding the flashlight up in the sky forgot to change the batteries.


"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination

FormerLurker  posted on  2017-12-18   15:28:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: FormerLurker (#6)

cuz that's all ya got is ad hom and ridicule you support disinfo lies you become one of them you have no proof of space travel you live a lie


"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers" ~ Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow

wudidiz  posted on  2017-12-18   16:04:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: FormerLurker (#6)

you don't even know what orwell's quote means

do you

no

you don't

i do.


"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers" ~ Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow

wudidiz  posted on  2017-12-18   16:05:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: All (#8)

they

control the past

who are they?

>those in control now<

you don't get it

do you

THIS IS 1017 A.D.

hahaha

no

you don't


"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers" ~ Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow

wudidiz  posted on  2017-12-18   16:07:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: All (#9)

his name

Iesus Christos

Russian King

Lived and died about a thousand years ago

Iesus was not black


"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers" ~ Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow

wudidiz  posted on  2017-12-18   16:09:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: All (#10)

holocaust was a hoax

you don't get a fucking choice about it?


"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers" ~ Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow

wudidiz  posted on  2017-12-18   16:09:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: wudidiz (#8)

you don't even know what orwell's quote means

do you

no

you don't

i do.

You're more than just a few cans short of a six pack wudidiz, you've gone absolutely insane.

The Orwell quote doesn't take an English major to figure out, it's in plain understandable English.

It means those who control what people know of history control the future, as people will follow the path given them and made to feel they're doing the right thing in terms of what they feel is historically the right thing to do.

Those who are in control of the present, control what people know of the past.


"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination

FormerLurker  posted on  2017-12-18   17:49:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: wudidiz (#7)

cuz that's all ya got is ad hom and ridicule you support disinfo lies you become one of them you have no proof of space travel you live a lie

You treat absolute scientific facts as if they were from a book written by primitive people who didn't know what electricity was, yet you treat wild stories and ignorant rantings as infallible truth, even though there is an abundance of evidence against what you claim.

Did you ever understand math and science when you went to school? Did you partake of too much alcohol and/or drugs later in life?

Do you perhaps have an ulterior motive?


"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination

FormerLurker  posted on  2017-12-18   18:12:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: wudidiz (#5) (Edited)

Been researching this for a year and a half now, wud. Time the big cme's. You'll see them mid month, right on time, with an uptick in seismic activity on earth two days later. Check the #'s. It's all there in black and white. Matter of fact, we had a quake here in this hotbed of seismic activity known as ohio just yesterday, second day after mid month. 2.6

Obnoxicated  posted on  2017-12-18   18:23:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: wudidiz (#5)

You follow RfB, wud?

Obnoxicated  posted on  2017-12-18   19:01:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: Obnoxicated (#15)

RfB

Who's that?


"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers" ~ Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow

wudidiz  posted on  2017-12-18   22:28:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: All (#16)

holohoax

i discovered this on this forum.

I am obliged to report my new findings here when i discover them

Nasa lies


"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers" ~ Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow

wudidiz  posted on  2017-12-18   22:30:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: All, Chrsitine, i love you all (#17)

Obliged

Thank you

The sun is approx. 32 miles in diameter. Same as the moon. Confirm this fact with a sextant using pythagorus theorem. c squared equals a squared plus b squared only works on a plane. celestial navigation. math tells us the sun and moon are both approx. a few thousand miles away. i'm here as a friend and i bring you this message of what i've learned since i first started posting here.


"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers" ~ Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow

wudidiz  posted on  2017-12-18   23:02:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: All (#18) (Edited)

Sun moon are below the firmament which is approx. 200,000 ft above our plane. There are no planets. Sun is not a star. Stars are not suns.

Please know this. I am not here to argue. It's counterproductive.

If you want i can tell you more, but i'm not interested in trying to convince anyone against their will. You need to be openminded, honest and you have to want to learn and be willing to abandon your preconceived notions as in indoctrination.


"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers" ~ Thomas Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow

wudidiz  posted on  2017-12-18   23:05:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: wudidiz (#18) (Edited)

Did you ever go to school, or did you grow up in a "rural" environment where they played a lot of banjo music?


"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination

FormerLurker  posted on  2017-12-19   1:13:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: FormerLurker (#20)

Them as grew up in a "rural" environment where they played a lot of banjo music live on fruited mountainsides of intellectual progress compared to the lot of some poltroons who purport to dispute here in the English language.

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded. - James Madison

randge  posted on  2017-12-19   9:03:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: randge (#21)

I don't know about that one. Have you ever seen Deliverance? The banjo player in the clip below is what I was alluding to..

I bet he thinks the Earth is flat too.


"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination

FormerLurker  posted on  2017-12-22   10:19:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: FormerLurker (#22)

Pure spirit and brilliant picking is what I see. That was the best part of that twisted movie.

"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm

AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt  posted on  2017-12-22   10:43:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: wudidiz (#19)

If you want i can tell you more, but i'm not interested in trying to convince anyone against their will. You need to be openminded, honest and you have to want to learn and be willing to abandon your preconceived notions as in indoctrination.

I want to hear more. You can private-reply me if you want. Just know I might take awhile to respond. Hectic life and new computer that's worse than the old one.

btw, what do you mean by "this is 1017 AD"?

I don't believe NASA if that's a start.

http://www.fixedearth.com/nasas-agenda.html

http://www.fixedearth.com/nasas-hanky-panky.html

http://www.fixedearth.com/nasas-spiritual-roots.html

"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm

AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt  posted on  2017-12-22   11:03:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#23)

Pure spirit and brilliant picking is what I see. That was the best part of that twisted movie.

Yep, decent song. You know it's not really that kid playing the banjo, right?


"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination

FormerLurker  posted on  2017-12-22   11:16:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: FormerLurker (#22)

Heh heh.

Who is it would have us all believe that great banjo pickers are all autistic, antisocial throwbacks?

(This is not a rhetorical question.)

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded. - James Madison

randge  posted on  2017-12-22   12:03:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: randge (#26)

I give up, who do you have in mind?


"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination

FormerLurker  posted on  2017-12-22   13:19:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: FormerLurker (#27)

The name begins with "Warner."

Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded. - James Madison

randge  posted on  2017-12-22   18:09:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Ada (#0) (Edited)

As the sun gets successively more blank with each day, due to lack of sunspots

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maund er_Minimum

For your edification.

Sunspots run in cycles. And though we are quite a ways from a Maunder Minimum, sunspots have been decreasing steadily for a few years now.

During the period of 1650 to 1700 the Thames River in England froze over. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2017-12-22   19:37:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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