WSO detector failed on 20 dec 2019 (remarkable !)

[Ron NL]

The Wilcox Solar Observatory  which seems to be the only observatory on Earth

that measures the solar-magnetic fields shows this message

Announcements:

"The WSO detector problem that began 20 December 2019 has been diagnosed and a fix implemented.
MF observations resumed on 5 February 2020 and the first magnetogram was taken on 6 February.
Thank you for your patience"  

See that here :      http://wso.stanford.edu/ 

Some general info :     https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/8/130807-sun-magnetic-field-reversal-space-weather/

 

Remarkable !  .. what a coincidence !  ... of all possible days it goes into error exactly on/around the day that many of us consider to be the start of a new Solar-Cycle

on that date it can not show the most important feature namely the polarisation-flip ... and it continues to do so untill february 2020.

 

So they erected an observatory to measure solar-polarisation (and flips of it ofcourse)

and then exactly on the most interesting day(s) ... it produces an error .. and the system stops producing data

i find that  highly remarkable

 

Yes i know ... the flip is not a one time short event ..it takes a long time (months)  to go from one to the full other state.

 

So anyone knows what exactly the error was at WSO ? 

since...they dont mention it nowhere.

 

 

 

Edited August 21, 2020 by Ron NL

[zackMcSack]

1 hour ago, Ron NL said:

Remarkable !  .. what a coincidence !  ... of all possible days it goes into error exactly on/around the day that many of us consider to be the start of a new Solar-Cycle

on that date it can not show the most important feature namely the polarisation-flip ... and it continues to do so untill february 2020.

 

So they erected an observatory to measure solar-polarisation (and flips of it ofcourse)

and then exactly on the most interesting day(s) ... it produces an error .. and the system stops producing data

i find that  highly remarkable

exactly.

short answer:  it was to keep uncertainty