Welcome All People!
I am brendasue of Kates Cabin Bird Sanctuary in Texas. I invite you to come in for a Break where Human Nature Meets Mother Earth Nature and Father Space Nature!! I share my digital images from the Private Bird Sanctuary. In addition we have Field Trips and visit places on the computer in a Fantastic World Tour. It is my intention to inspire You to think about all Life on Earth for the Future of Humanity. It is my Hope that You will discover New Joy!
Hi Everybody!! You have to admit, the King looks pretty good in his Santa Hat! I bet a little smile of disbelief is sitting on your lips!! First week of December behind us. Three more weeks til 2013. To some of You who are new to the internet, You may just now be hearing about the December 21 date. Be careful as there is good info out there and not so good. Trust Google Index. I plan to review the best info and post it this week to our Blog. Do not worry or panic. We will look at options and predictions in depth. So, laugh today with Santa Buzz! I made you a slideshow this morning. For Your Sunday Night bonus, You get a mini concert of Joan Baez! Starting tomorrow, we study! Enjoy!
Here is your video slideshow of King Buzz and the gang in the sunny tree. (No santa hats). The music is by Joan Baez. Enjoy!
Hi Everybody!!
Sending Out Wishes of Peace for All People In The World. My Texas Turkey Buzzards in a Sun Tree slide show. Come meet them up close and personal. Please share the Peace from Rainbow Creek. Love to Everybody!!!
Hi Everybody!! Please come in for some warmth tonight.
We are going to put our normal partying and tripping mode on hold for a moment and focus on the breaking news of this day March 6-The Sun. As you look at the sunset photostudy, I want you to think about the warmth of the Sun and the Great Light that gives us Life on Earth. Without the Sun, we would not be here.
I want to quickly Thank all of you for coming by and coming back again, following and commenting. (Any comments will not show up until the next day). It is so great to feel your positive thoughts coming at me! Please keep trying to get my blog to any isolated, lonely people. Lee Battles, I thank you for sharing my posts to your stream, but more than that, thanks for being so supportive and encouraging. I do not hear those words anymore since Mom and Dad left, it feels good to hear them again! We are all new at the social media, but I do make an effort to share information, thoughts and ideas instead of google cats!!!!!
At the end of the images of the sunset on Earth, I am going to take you a little higher! We are going to have a look at the Sun and see for ourselves what is going on. Enjoy, my Friends.
Okay, going a little higher now-Just push play arrow to start the Trip-(Hold On!)
March 7, 2011
June 7, 2011
I saw the following news this morning when I opened up the office. I posted this to G+ and copied the post to this blog. As I pasted this post into blog, the links may not be live, so I have added the link to Space.com.
I called it a CMI, but it is actually CME (coronal mass ejection).
A potent X1 class flare, blasting a dazzling coronal mass ejection, left the Sun early on March 5th 2012 caused by sunspot cluster 4X the size of Earth. An earlier M2 class flare also produced a CME t...
The Sun has been quiet recently but early today (04:13 UTC on March 5, 2012) it unleashed a powerful X1-class solar flare and coronal mass ejection. The latest estimates indicate the CME will probably miss Earth, but hit Mercury and Venus. Even so, the science team from the Solar Dynamics Observatory says that high-latitude skywatchers should still be alert for auroras in the nights ahead. There was also an M2-class eruption from the same big and active sunspot, Active Region 1429, on March 4th which produced another, wider CME that might yet intersect Earth. The cloud is expected to deliver a glancing blow to our planet’s magnetic field on March 6th at 04:30 UT (+/- 7 hrs).
The Sun is the most prominent feature in our solar system. It is the largest object and contains approximately 98% of the total solar system mass. One hundred and nine Earths would be required to fit across the Sun's disk, and its interior could hold over 1.3 million Earths. The Sun's outer visible layer is called the photosphere and has a temperature of 6,000 degrees C (11,000F). This layer has a mottled appearance due to the turbulent eruptions of energy at the surface
The chromosphere is above the photosphere. Solar energy passes through this region on its way out from the center of the Sun. Faculae and flares arise in the chromosphere. Faculae are bright luminous hydrogen clouds which form above regions where sunspots are about to form. Flares are bright filaments of hot gas emerging from sunspot regions. Sunspots are dark depressions on the photosphere with a typical temperature of 4,000C (7,000F).
The corona is the outer part of the Sun's atmosphere. It is in this region that prominences appears. Prominences are immense clouds of glowing gas that erupt from the upper chromosphere.The outer region of the corona stretches far into space and consists of particles traveling slowly away from the Sun. The corona can only be seen during total solar eclipses.
The Sun appears to have been active for 4.6 billion years and has enough fuel to go on for another five billion years or so. At the end of its life,the Sun will start to fuse helium into heavier elements and begin to swell up, ultimately growing so large that it will swallow the Earth. After a billion years as a red giant, it will suddenly collapse into a white dwarf--the final end product of a star like ours. It may take a trillion years to cool off completely.
Sun Statistics
Mass (kg)
1.989e+30
Mass (Earth = 1)
332,830
Equatorial radius (km)
695,000
Equatorial radius (Earth = 1)
108.97
Mean density (gm/cm^3)
1.410
Rotational period (days)
25-36*
Escape velocity (km/sec)
618.02
Luminosity (ergs/sec)
3.827e33
Magnitude (Vo)
-26.8
Mean surface temperature
6,000°C
Age (billion years)
4.5
Principal chemistry
Hydrogen
Helium
Oxygen
Carbon
Nitrogen
Neon
Iron
Silicon
Magnesium
Sulfur
All others
This image was acquired from NASA"s Skylab space station on December 19, 1973. It shows one of the most spectacular solar flares ever recorded, propelled by magnetic forces, lifting off from the Sun. It spans more than 588,000km of the solar surface. In this photograph, the solar poles are distinguished by a relative absence of super granulation network, and a much darker tone than the central portions of the disk. (Courtesy NASA).
It is not my intent to scare You. I am only trying to inform You
