{"id":5965,"date":"2014-01-09T02:14:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T02:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2014-01-09T02:14:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T02:14:10","slug":"the-sun-perks-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5965","title":{"rendered":"The sun perks up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun shook off some of its lethargy in December. <a href=\"http:\/\/behindtheblack.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Zimmerman<\/a> gives an update on the entry in the solar cycle data:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/behindtheblack.com\/behind-the-black\/essays-and-commentaries\/yippee-solar-scientists-finally-get-it-right\" target=\"_d\">Yippee! Solar scientists finally get it right &#8211; Behind The Black<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/SolarCycle\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"ISES Solar Cycle Sunspot Number Progression - NOAA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/SolarCycle\/sunspot.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>A big solar flare this week led to the delay of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbital.com\/NewsInfo\/MissionUpdates\/Orb-1\/MissionUpdate\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Orbital Sciences Antares launch<\/a> of the Cygnus cargo delivery to the ISS:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press\/2014\/january\/orbital-sciences-launch-to-space-station-with-nasa-research-reset-for-thursday\/#.Us4ESNJDttA\" target=\"_d\">Orbital Sciences Launch to Space Station with NASA Research Reset for Thursday | NASA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/x1s2_anim1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5966\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=5966\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/x1s2_anim1.gif\" data-orig-size=\"512,512\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"x1s2_anim[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/x1s2_anim1.gif\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5966\" alt=\"x1s2_anim[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/x1s2_anim1.gif\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&amp;day=08&amp;month=01&amp;year=2014\" target=\"_d\">Spaceweather.com &#8211; \u00a0Jan.8.14<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun shook off some of its lethargy in December. Bob Zimmerman gives an update on the entry in the solar cycle data:\u00a0Yippee! Solar scientists finally get it right &#8211; Behind The Black. &nbsp; === A big solar flare this week led to the delay of the Orbital Sciences Antares launch of the Cygnus cargo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5965\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The sun perks up<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1yd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2519,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2519","url_meta":{"origin":5965,"position":0},"title":"Sunjammer solar sail to fly far in 2014","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The NASA funded Sunjammer Project will fly the largest solar sail ever deployed in space, a\u00a0 1200 sq. meter sail built by L'Garde. 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