This station aims at detecting ionospheric effects resulting from solar flares. Those effects are known as Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances, or SIDs.
This station is an amateur observatory located in France. It is operational since early 2006 and it has received the AAVSO observer code A118 in July 2006.
The current VLF signal level data may be viewed in a daily chart. Detailed data for SID events observed so far is also available.
General information related to ionosphere, as well as Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances and detection principle are available.
You will also found information for building your own station. Details related to each part are provided: the VLF antenna, the VLF receiver and the data acquisition and processing software.
I hope you will enjoy this site. Comments and suggestions are more than welcome, so do not hesitate!
As a child, I used to spend many hours in astronomy books or under the skies. Today, professional constraints impose me to live under light polluted skies and to be less and less available for watching the stars. The monitoring of SID (Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances) appeared to me as a good means to come back to astronomy and gave me the opportunity of discovering a whole new world...
Less than a year after reading the S&T article, after hundreds of hours surfing the web and seeking information, making the VLF receiver and writing software, the SID Monitoring Station was operational.
GOES-10 X-ray Data Returns
GOES-11 Xray Data LOST
February 12, 2008 -- GOES-10 data has resumed and GOES-10 has been designed
the SWPC primary GOES Satellite for X-ray data.
GOES-11 Xray Data has become unavailable and is not expected to return.
GOES-11 Data Lists ended on Feb 10, 2008.
GOES-11 Data Lists have been discontinued.
GOES-12 X-ray Lists End
November 27, 2007 -- the GOES-12 X-ray list has been discontinued because
the X-ray sensor is not operating.
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