Volume 2011, Issue No.2, Dated: 18th Feb 2011Time:5h05mAM
The Astronomy Study and the Weather scenario during Second Fortnight of February 2011
by
Professor Dr Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana
{Retd. Prof. of Phys, SU} 17-11-10, Narsimha Ashram, Official Colony, Maharanipeta.P.O, Visakhapatnam-530002. Mobile: 9542717723
Keywords:
Astronomy, Second Fortnight February Weather, Visakhapatnam, solar flares and CME effects, RAONIUM,particle physics,spectroscopy, Astrophysics,Plasma Physics, Applied Mathematics
ABSTRACT
The onset of changing weather conditions were forestalled by the very nature of the sky at Visakhapatnam. The astronomy events of Moon with the background star constellations on specific time and dates have been meticulously observed in India as festival days. This is significant that even a common man in India is able to follow the celestial cycle of apparent movements of the constellations and possible terrestrial events that would be either enchanting or would bring misery. An anti-cyclone and the long persisting upper air trough over the state triggered the unusual rainfall at Visakhapatnam. The significant finding is in respect of the spectra of the Moon that exhibited clearly the difference in the spectral features of the shadowed region of lunar surface by Earth and the unaffected the edge region of the crescent Lunar tip. The broadening and the shift in the spectra are suggested the possible role of the Rao and Anti-Rao Quanta scattering by the two distinct regions of the lunar surface. Similar features have been also found from the sea wave foam and the atmosphere near the sea shore of the Visakhapatnam Coastal Beach. The research findings over the last few years on force fields and the Astronomy study of the sky and as well the weather conditions revealed the possibility of a RAONIUM to exist that has a half life about a few nanoseconds. This opens up a new vista of fundamental studies parallel with the positronium like molecules. The source of extensive beam of Rao and Anti-Rao Quanta is still elusive. Otherwise simple experiments can be performed at the laptop level.
INTRODUCTION
The second week of February 2011 started with unusual weather conditions of two fold nature. One of a westerly back-to-back disturbance that moved over from Pakistan and adjoining Jammu and Kashmir side to the Eastern Himalayan States with a splinter into the Gangetic valley and the Rajasthan etc North India states. Yet another ‘active’ western disturbance, which will started affecting the western Himalayan region from Tuesday Feb 22nd 2011 onwards.
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal and north Andhra Pradesh were affected by rains on Sunday 20th and Monday 21st Feb 2011. Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, north Rajasthan, west Uttar Pradesh and Vidarbha were among those regions that have been hit on Sunday itself.
Minimum temperatures were below normal by 2 to 3 deg Celsius over east Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Assam and above normal by 2 to 3 deg Celsius over Rajasthan, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. The lowest minimum temperature of 6 deg Celsius during the last 24 hours ending Sunday 20th Feb 2011 morning was recorded at Adampur in Punjab in the plains of the country. Satellite imagery on Sunday afternoon showed convective (rain-bearing) clouds over parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, ready to snow cover the hills and down the slopes in the northwest.
A few places like in Jaipur, Bani Park, Ramgarh Mode and Brahmpuri areas reported hailstorm. Karimnagar and Adilabad were badly affected by the hailstorms on Sunday evening. Ellampalli was worst hit. The temperature also dipped in some parts of the Rajasthan state following the rain which brought chilly winds. Isolated rain or thundershowers with hail was also reported at many places in the state. Ganganagar had 5.4 mm of rain during the day followed by Churu, 4 mm, and Pilani, 2 mm. Light drizzles were reported at a few places including Bikaner division where isolated rain has been on since Saturday night.
The other is a low depression trough formation near the coastal Andhra Pradesh. Visakhapatnam and Ramagundam received 2 cm rainfall each. Pre-monsoon showers are experienced only from the middle of March. Environmentalists and research workers attribute these sudden changes in weather pattern to climate change and global warming. Some feel that the drop in the temperatures and spells of rain was a result of the presence of an upper circulation in Kolkata and Orissa and its neighborhood. The Anantpur Ghats were covered with heavy fog making the visibility very poor for vehicular traffic.
An anti-cyclone and the long persisting upper air trough over the state triggered the unusual rainfall. Rain at this time of the year is unusual. There was similar rainfall in February 2009 as well observed Mr. R V Subba Rao, Assistant Meteorologist, Met department.
The country's deadliest natural disaster in 80 years struck at 1251 (2351 GMT on Monday), 10km (6.2 miles) south-east of the city Christchurch when it was at its busiest. The quake caused some 30m tons of ice to shear away from New Zealand's biggest glacier. Witnesses say massive icebergs formed when the Tasman Glacier in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park broke, tossing a nearby lake with huge waves. A series of aftershocks, some as big as magnitude 5, have already rattled the stricken city, and officials warned residents to brace for more. The tremor caused widespread damage as it occurred at a shallow depth of 5km (3.1 miles) during lunchtime when Christchurch was at its busiest. The quake caused some 30m tons of ice to shear away from New Zealand's biggest glacier.
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal and north Andhra Pradesh were affected by rains on Sunday 20th and Monday 21st Feb 2011. Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, north Rajasthan, west Uttar Pradesh and Vidarbha were among those regions that have been hit on Sunday itself.
Minimum temperatures were below normal by 2 to 3 deg Celsius over east Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Assam and above normal by 2 to 3 deg Celsius over Rajasthan, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. The lowest minimum temperature of 6 deg Celsius during the last 24 hours ending Sunday 20th Feb 2011 morning was recorded at Adampur in Punjab in the plains of the country. Satellite imagery on Sunday afternoon showed convective (rain-bearing) clouds over parts of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, ready to snow cover the hills and down the slopes in the northwest.
A few places like in Jaipur, Bani Park, Ramgarh Mode and Brahmpuri areas reported hailstorm. Karimnagar and Adilabad were badly affected by the hailstorms on Sunday evening. Ellampalli was worst hit. The temperature also dipped in some parts of the Rajasthan state following the rain which brought chilly winds. Isolated rain or thundershowers with hail was also reported at many places in the state. Ganganagar had 5.4 mm of rain during the day followed by Churu, 4 mm, and Pilani, 2 mm. Light drizzles were reported at a few places including Bikaner division where isolated rain has been on since Saturday night.
The other is a low depression trough formation near the coastal Andhra Pradesh. Visakhapatnam and Ramagundam received 2 cm rainfall each. Pre-monsoon showers are experienced only from the middle of March. Environmentalists and research workers attribute these sudden changes in weather pattern to climate change and global warming. Some feel that the drop in the temperatures and spells of rain was a result of the presence of an upper circulation in Kolkata and Orissa and its neighborhood. The Anantpur Ghats were covered with heavy fog making the visibility very poor for vehicular traffic.
An anti-cyclone and the long persisting upper air trough over the state triggered the unusual rainfall. Rain at this time of the year is unusual. There was similar rainfall in February 2009 as well observed Mr. R V Subba Rao, Assistant Meteorologist, Met department.
The country's deadliest natural disaster in 80 years struck at 1251 (2351 GMT on Monday), 10km (6.2 miles) south-east of the city Christchurch when it was at its busiest. The quake caused some 30m tons of ice to shear away from New Zealand's biggest glacier. Witnesses say massive icebergs formed when the Tasman Glacier in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park broke, tossing a nearby lake with huge waves. A series of aftershocks, some as big as magnitude 5, have already rattled the stricken city, and officials warned residents to brace for more. The tremor caused widespread damage as it occurred at a shallow depth of 5km (3.1 miles) during lunchtime when Christchurch was at its busiest. The quake caused some 30m tons of ice to shear away from New Zealand's biggest glacier.
Our observations:
The astronomy events of Moon with the background star constellations on specific time and dates have been meticulously observed in India as festival days. This is significant that even a common man in India is able to follow the celestial cycle of apparent movements of the constellations and possible terrestrial events that would be either enchanting or would bring misery. The observation on the 18th February the Full Moon day a very broad Rao droplets wave suspended above the sea waters is a far reaching and significant observation made at 18h33mPM. A jump in Red irradiance of the lunar shine reflection seems to be fascinating. On the beach sand soaked with the salt sea water the red irradiance has penetrated deep into the wet soil. The Venus is weaning away in brightness and also the fog weather making it not possible to be captured spectrally by the digital camera. The sudden rains that lashed in India could have been driven by the Solar Winds of the CME’s produced on 18th, 19th and 20th of February 2011. The night visibility continued to be low during the second fortnight of February 2011 due to the fog and cloudy weather that has not cleared away since 18th February 2011. Hence many bright stars became un visible and could not be captured by digital photography. The Magha Pournima (The Full Moon) shine Irradiance spectral shifts due to Rao and Anti-Rao Quanta are very much evident in that the color separations are very vivid in the spectral analysis of the 18th February 2011 at 18h50m. Contrasting radioactive elemental foam spectra of the Bay of Bengal Sea waves has been suggested to support the concept of the role of Rao and Anti-Rao Quanta. On the 21st February the Sun Spectrum was one of a brilliant Yellow while the Moon spectrum has very little yellow band. On the 24th morning the Venus and the moon duo could be captured in the frame of digital photography. But alas the recorded of spectra became very elusive due to bad cloudy weather conditions. But on the 27th morning both the Venus and Moon spectra could be obtained with some effort. The significant finding is in respect of the spectra of the Moon that exhibited clearly the difference in the spectral features of the shadowed region of lunar surface by Earth and the unaffected the edge region of the crescent Lunar tip. The broadening and the shift in the spectra are suggested the possible role of the Rao and Anti-Rao Quanta scattering by the two distinct regions of the lunar surface. This is very much evident from the images obtained on the 28th February 2011morning. The Moon and Venus were found to be having only one nearby bright star possibly of the Leo Constellation the REGULUS.
IMAGES CAPTURED
Fig 1 Moon spectrum 16th Feb 2011 at 22h32mPM
Fig 2 of IMG_2617kln Moon spectrum on Magha Pournima and the Rao and Anti Rao Quanta
Fig 3 of IMG_2614kln Moon light reflections at the Sea shore
Fig 4 of IMG_2667kln Moon with two bright stars and a distant star of North
Fig 5 of IMG_2679kln Sun Spectrum diffraction from Iron rods
Fig 6 of IMG_2722kln Pre-Monsoon? Clouds striated; Moon and a North Star
Fig 7 of Venus and Moon on24th Feb 2011 mvi2739 at 5h46mAM
Fig 8 of IMG_2813kln Venus and Moon spectra Note the Venus blob with spectral shifts
Fig 9 of img 2854 2855 kln Spectra Sea waves Atmosphere and Moon
Fig 10 of IMG_2836kln the Atmosphere of Sea Shore, Moon and Venus Spectral intensities
Fig 11 of IMG_2838kln Venus spectrum very diffuse
Fig 12 of IMG 2854 2852 2844 Moon near stars
RESULTS & A FUTURISTIC OUTLOOK:
IMAGES CAPTURED
Fig 1 Moon spectrum 16th Feb 2011 at 22h32mPM
Fig 2 of IMG_2617kln Moon spectrum on Magha Pournima and the Rao and Anti Rao Quanta
Fig 3 of IMG_2614kln Moon light reflections at the Sea shore
Fig 4 of IMG_2667kln Moon with two bright stars and a distant star of North
Fig 5 of IMG_2679kln Sun Spectrum diffraction from Iron rods
Fig 6 of IMG_2722kln Pre-Monsoon? Clouds striated; Moon and a North Star
Fig 7 of Venus and Moon on24th Feb 2011 mvi2739 at 5h46mAM
Fig 8 of IMG_2813kln Venus and Moon spectra Note the Venus blob with spectral shifts
Fig 9 of img 2854 2855 kln Spectra Sea waves Atmosphere and Moon
Fig 10 of IMG_2836kln the Atmosphere of Sea Shore, Moon and Venus Spectral intensities
Fig 11 of IMG_2838kln Venus spectrum very diffuse
Fig 12 of IMG 2854 2852 2844 Moon near stars
RESULTS & A FUTURISTIC OUTLOOK:
The significant finding is in respect of the spectra of the Moon that exhibited clearly the difference in the spectral features of the shadowed region of lunar surface by Earth and the unaffected the edge region of the crescent Lunar tip. The broadening and the shift in the spectra are suggested the possible role of the Rao and Anti-Rao Quanta scattering by the two distinct regions of the lunar surface. Similar features have been also found from the sea wave foam and the atmosphere near the sea shore of the Visakhapatnam Coastal Beach. The research findings over the last few years on force fields and the Astronomy study of the sky and as well the weather conditions revealed the possibility of a RAONIUM to exist that has a half life about a few nanoseconds. This opens up a new vista of fundamental studies parallel with the positronium like molecules. The source of extensive beam of Rao and Anti-Rao Quanta is still elusive. Otherwise simple experiments can be performed at the laptop level.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT:
I am deeply indebted to late Professor K.Rangadhama Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) of J.V.D.College of Science & Technology, Andhra University, Waltair, for his initiation and stimulation provide to me to be a researcher in Fundamental Physics.
REFERENCES:
1. By Joe Rao SPACE updated 2/14/2011 5:43:21 PM ET Earth 'in the crosshair’s of a solar explosion:
A powerful solar flare, hurled into space when superhot gases erupted on the sun Sunday 20th Feb 2011, might cause a display of the aurora borealis for parts of the northern United States overnight Monday night. . The sun unleashed the solar flare yesterday at about 12:30 p.m. EST from a sunspot region that was barely visible last week. Since then, it has grown in size to more than 62,000 miles across — nearly eight times the width of our Earth. The flare was categorized by the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado as a Class M6.6 and is the strongest solar flare observed in 2011
2. NASA: Sunday's 20th Feb 2011, solar flare occurred near the middle of the sun's disk, meaning that the resultant explosion of electrified particles could be "geoeffective," that is, directed toward the Earth. So, in essence, our planet was "in the crosshairs" of this solar explosion and would thus increase the chance that an aurora display might result. Ideally, the associated stream of particles could reach the Earth 37 hours after the flare's eruption.
3. SpaceWeather.com; CME SPARKS AURORAS: One and possibly two CMEs hit Earth during the early hours of Feb. 18th, creating a gusty solar wind environment around our planet and fueling a minor G1-class geomagnetic storm. During the storm-peak, auroras were visible over Canada despite interference from the full moon:
4. Refer the earlier tursciencetrutechnolgy publications made at this BlogSpot for some details of possible Rao and Anti-Rao Quanta.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT:
I am deeply indebted to late Professor K.Rangadhama Rao D.Sc. (Madras) D.Sc. (London) of J.V.D.College of Science & Technology, Andhra University, Waltair, for his initiation and stimulation provide to me to be a researcher in Fundamental Physics.
REFERENCES:
1. By Joe Rao SPACE updated 2/14/2011 5:43:21 PM ET Earth 'in the crosshair’s of a solar explosion:
A powerful solar flare, hurled into space when superhot gases erupted on the sun Sunday 20th Feb 2011, might cause a display of the aurora borealis for parts of the northern United States overnight Monday night. . The sun unleashed the solar flare yesterday at about 12:30 p.m. EST from a sunspot region that was barely visible last week. Since then, it has grown in size to more than 62,000 miles across — nearly eight times the width of our Earth. The flare was categorized by the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center in Colorado as a Class M6.6 and is the strongest solar flare observed in 2011
2. NASA: Sunday's 20th Feb 2011, solar flare occurred near the middle of the sun's disk, meaning that the resultant explosion of electrified particles could be "geoeffective," that is, directed toward the Earth. So, in essence, our planet was "in the crosshairs" of this solar explosion and would thus increase the chance that an aurora display might result. Ideally, the associated stream of particles could reach the Earth 37 hours after the flare's eruption.
3. SpaceWeather.com; CME SPARKS AURORAS: One and possibly two CMEs hit Earth during the early hours of Feb. 18th, creating a gusty solar wind environment around our planet and fueling a minor G1-class geomagnetic storm. During the storm-peak, auroras were visible over Canada despite interference from the full moon:
4. Refer the earlier tursciencetrutechnolgy publications made at this BlogSpot for some details of possible Rao and Anti-Rao Quanta.
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