Astronomy & Weather Scenario of Visakhapatnam during First Fortnight of November 2011

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Volume 2011, Issue No.11, Tuesday, ‎November ‎01, ‎2011, ‏‎3:21:49 PM
First Fortnight of November 2011 Astronomy &
Weather Scenario in Visakhapatnam
by
Professor Dr Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana

{Retd. Prof. of Phys, SU} 17-11-10, Narasimha Ashram, Official Colony, Maharanipeta.P.O, Visakhapatnam-530002. 

Mobile Nos: 9542717723 and 9491902867

 ABSTRACT:

            The series of Moon images on very careful examination has revealed the possible regions on the Moon surface where the magnetic monopoles exist. Another finding is that the Big Sun Spot AR1339 that turned towards the Earth has indeed caused certain type Electromagnetic radiations to reach the equatorial region much faster than the other types. Further, the img-6291kln gives the Sea wave spectra that are found to have been constituted by the Rao and Anti-Rao molecules catalyzed by the radioactive constituents of the beach sands. The November 6th, 2011 Volcano erruption in Cango might have influnced the on set of the North East Monsoon around the South India and affected the most the state of  Andhra Pradesh in India. 

Keywords: Magnetic Monopoles, new molecules, Astrophysics, Astronomy, Earth Sciences, Geophysics.

INTRODUCTION:

Heavy rains continued to lash many parts of the state, including Chennai, as the north-east monsoon remained active over the State on Tuesday 1^st Nov 2011. As overnight rains continued in the morning of Wednesday, in many places, with low-lying areas remained inundated. Chennai received a rainfall of 6.4mm. Following a good south-west monsoon, most of the water bodies and dams had good storage and the present north-east monsoon had brought copious rains, resulting in rivers and other storage bodies reaching their maximum levels. Standing crops in Cauvery delta districts including Thanjavur and Tiruchirappalli, Tuticorin and Tirunelveli had suffered damage due to the heavy rains and resultant inundation of the fields. Meanwhile, it is forecasted further heavy rainfall in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. The North-East monsoon, which brings in the bulk of rain for the State, had set in over the State last week. It remained active.

            Prakasam district several villages marooned due to the heavy rains on 4^th November 2011 lashing several areas. Atmakuru, Duppigunta, Chinagavaripalem and neighoubor other villages were stranded due to the overflow of the Munneruvagu in Ulavapadu mandal. The overflow of rivers Elikeru and Upputeru in the Gudulur mandal isolated about 12 villages. Patikanenivaaripalem in Singaraykonda mandal was affected by the overflow of Mutteru river.  Excepting three districts namely, Chittoor, Kadapha and Nizamabad all other districts in Andhra Pradesh have diminished underground water resources. Many regions during the last 40-50days had no rains.

Chilly Weather

Chintapalli in Visakhapatnam district recorded 10deg C on 5^th Nov.2011 making the shop keepers to close their business by 7.30PM and in the morning time there is dense fog and day temperature maximum was about 23deg C.  Dry weather continued in Andhra Pradesh in all the three important regions of the cultivation of crops. Coastal North East monsoon winds are blowing but the humidity in air is nominal. So the chilly weather is dominating an unusual thing in November with about 2 to 3 deg C lower temperatures. South Tamil Nadu coastal depression is steady but no rainfall.

Travel money:  Eleven nations have bottom-trawling fleets, for deep sea studies of marine wonders, with Spain's being the biggest.

5^th Nov 2011 BIG SUNSPOT: Sunspot AR1339 has quieted since Nov. 3rd when it unleashed an X2-class solar flare. Nevertheless, it still poses a threat for powerful eruptions. The behemoth sunspot has a "beta-gamma-delta" magnetic field that harbors energy for more X-flares. Eruptions this weekend could be Earth-directed as AR1339 turns toward our planet. After weeks with rain and overcast, it was good to see the auroras again," says photographer Helge Mortensen of Kvaløya, Norway.

The sun shot off a flare on Thursday 3^rd November 2011 afternoon from a region that scientists are calling a "benevolent monster", area is the most active part of the sun since 2005. On Nov 10^th, 2011 Astronomers have realized that this is not an average sunspot, it's a giant cluster of sunspots, several of which are larger than our entire planet. It has dozens of sunspots, including one that is the size of 17 Earths. Sunspots are kinks or knots in the sun's magnetic field. This active region is now slowly turning toward Earth, and scientists say it will be directly facing Earth in about five days. That storm region will only affect Earth if it shoots off flares and they hit our planet, which doesn't always happen with stormy areas. The region will be facing Earth for about two weeks as it rotates. Solar flares send out bursts of electromagnetic energy that can occasionally disrupt communications and electrical systems. As predicted, a coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field on Nov. 12th at approximately 0600 UT. The impact caused ground currents in Norway and a brief flurry of auroras around the Arctic Circle, but otherwise had little effect. No big geomagnetic storms are in the offing. A filament of magnetism more than 700,000 km long is curling around the sun's northeastern limb on the morning of 12^th Nov 2011. University of Nebraska freshman Evan Ludes took a picture of cloud-colors over Omaha on the morning of Nov. 10th: Iridescent colors appear when sunlight shines through water droplets in the edges of clouds. The mechanism is diffraction. The colors are at their brightest and most distinct when the droplets are small and uniformly-sized. The colors were particularly vivid since these clouds were newly formed and therefore likely had water droplets of similar shape and size. It was incredible how distinct the bands of colors were even when zoomed in at 300mm!

Asteroid: The circular asteroid, named 2005 YU55, is about 400 meters wide and will come closer than the Moon, zipping by at a distance of 325,000 km, The time of the nearest flyby is expected to be at 23:28 GMT.

Earthquakes

SANTIAGO: A 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook northern Chile early on Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of any damage to property or copper mines in the area, emergency and mine officials said. The temblor struck at 0713 GMT and was centered 13 miles (22 kms) northeast of Antofagasta, at a depth of 20.5 miles (33 kms), the U.S. Geological Survey reported, revising the quake down from an original reading of 6.0 magnitude. A union official at Anglo American's 90,000 tonne per year Mantos Blancos deposit near the epicenter said workers had felt the tremor, but operations were not affected.

Srinagar and Chandigad: November 7^th, 2011

A moderate earthquake today rocked Kashmir Valley, Punjab and Haryana for about a few seconds around evening at 5h29mPM but there were no reports of any loss of life or damage to property. People scampered out of their homes in panic in the Valley as the quake, lasting a few seconds, struck at 1729 hours. Mild tremors were also felt in many parts of Punjab, Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh, officials said adding no loss of life or damage to property was reported. The epicenter of the temblor, measuring a magnitude of 6R was Hindukush region in Afghanistan.

Oklahoma:

Earthquakes of up to 5.6 magnitudes have shaken Oklahoma; the first quake was recorded on Saturday5th November 2011 morning at a magnitude of 4.7. The second came on Saturday night and is the largest ever recorded in Oklahoma, topping a tremor of 5.5 magnitudes in 1952.

CNN: A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck deep under the ocean floor northwest of Okinawa, Japan, near noon Tuesday, 8^th November 2011 according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor, which hit at 11:59 a.m. (9:59 p.m. Monday ET), was measured at a depth of 209.5 kilometers (130.2 miles), according to the USGS. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue any alerts, saying there was no tsunami generated by the quake the epicenter was 218 kilometers (136 miles) northwest of Naha, Okinawa, and 497 kilometers (309 miles) from Taipei, Taiwan, the USGS said.

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake killed seven people in eastern Turkey late Wednesday, less than three weeks after a massive quake killed many people. The quake occurred at 1923 GMT, with the epicenter in the Edremit district, some 15 kilometers (nine miles) from the Van province, according to the Istanbul-based Kandilli Observatory. The USGS put the magnitude at 5.6R, after having earlier put it at 5.7R.

The 6.3-magnitude quake was centered 12 miles (20 kilometers) beneath the Molucca Sea, Ternate, and the town in North Maluku province that is closest to the epicenter.

The volcano

A spectacular eruption of Mount Nyamulagira in eastern Congo with the volcano began erupting Nov. 6, 2011 and has several lava fountains spewing up to 650 feet (200 meters) into the air. Nyamulagira, which generally erupts every two years, rumbled to life at 8h 06m p.m. on Sunday, spewing lava, smoke, and ash throughout Virunga National Park. The volcano sits within the park, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of the city of Goma. The volcano could continue erupting for weeks and even months.

The Full Moon

The Full moon as seen from Visakhapatnam a photo reported by K.R. Deepak of The Hindu Newspaper given with no details of the camera type settings used. See the notes Nos.1 & 2 given below.

Our Findings:

Fig.1 gives the triangle stars as observed in Visakhapatnam evening Gray Sky. For comparison the Scientific American picture is scale arranged to have guidance to understand the orientation of the Triangle of the West sky. The crescent Moon and the nearby star prominent have relative brightness i.e. fascinating.

Fig.2  gives out the intensity profiles of the Sun set hues as observed at the time of a festival celebrations in the River Brahmaputra on Tuesday Nov1st,2011. Note the Hunter observed on 4^th November at 03h49mPM provided a nice view of the Hunter Constellation prominent stars with a Gray Sky background. The Moon and the Jupiter at the extreme diagonal points of Canon IXUS 130 camera frame is helpful to watch the Moon shifting its position in the background of fixed stars. The mvi6041 around 10h47mPM on 3^rd Nov 2011 presents a view of the half Moon. The Gray Sky hue has been noted on the 3^rd Nov 2011 evening around 22h45mPM.  

Fig3. The Gray Sky has been vividly observed on the 4^th November 2011 around 17h23mPM and the spectrum of the Moon in this background is very faint but fine. The Moon over my home Narasimha Ashram around 17h25mPM is a photo album picture, over the far-fetched Gray Sky. The intensity profile provides Gray Shading of the Sky from the Sea horizon to the Zenith. The Moon spectrum reflects the Solar flare affects and has been surmised from the intensity profile and along with certain lunar topography features.

Fig.4  gives the overcast Gray hue of the Visakhapatnam sky and a noteworthy image obtained by me is the img_6068kln at 17h20mPM on the 5^th Nov.2011 the gives out the reddish hue of the Lunar topography. A comparative study with the previous such lunar topography images obtained by me and reported as well in this article elsewhere have been found extremely useful to gauge the Lunar Surface features of remarkable secrets. The Narasimha Ashram terrace image of the sky at around 05h18mAM  on the 6^th Nov.2011 is remarkable since it has the Gray hue nicely seen all over the Sky in spite of the dawn twilight. Around 20h04mPM on 5^th Nov 2011 the relative positions of the Jupiter and the Moon a little far away over the Narasimha Ashram terrace is very illustrative. The 5^th evening Moon spectrum in the Gray hue background sky at around 17h26mPM is very striking. The Gray sky hue and the Bay of Bengal at Visakhapatnam beach sea waters Gray hue have been image captured in the img_6071kln along with the ionosphere airglow and the Moon. The composite intensity profile of the different color hues is a nice finding.  The amazing Gray sky over cast existed over the days 4^th, 5^th, 6^th,7^th and then got modified with poked structure on the 8^th November 2011.The NE monsoon clouds provided a nice back drop for the ionosphere layers at the equatorial region in India for the Thursday, 3^rd November 2011 solar flare has affected the weather scenario in Visakhapatnam. 

The Fig 5 of the present article at my blog post indicates the enormity of the X-ray, Ultra-Violet and other radiations influence on the shattered ionosphere layers. The Gray is visible in spite of the bright Sun set and an intensity profiles obtained by me of the images reported herein establish the fact that the Solar flares do indeed affect the weather scenario in the equatorial region of Southern India Peninsula. The brilliant gives at the Sun set time exceptionally good dispersion of the radiance of the Sun. This is image captured in img_6100kln.

In Fig.6 the bright Sun spectrum in the evening of 6^th Nov.2011 around 17h00mPM exhibits the excellent Yellow splash ring and an orange ring at some considerable distance of diffraction. The spectrum around 17h04mPM on the same day gives the dominant red hue. Around 17h03mPM on the same day the Sea has a Gray hue in spite that the Sky is overcast with a deep blue hue. This is a very significant observation. Luckily in the night around 21h19mPM on 6^th Nov.2011 the Spectrum of Jupiter could be recorded. The most significant finding img_6083kln is that of the Lunar Topography giving out the details of the so-called sea regions. Undoubtedly as NASA found the Titanium rich soil is present on the lunar surface. But I have a finding that is much more consistent with my previous report in the Indian Science Congress.  

Fig.7 Another finding was the relative size of the three Belt stars of the Hunter constellation around 03h30mAM of 7^th Nov. 2011 given in Fig. 5  see above. An attempt has been made on the 7^th Nov2011 to movie capture with Canon IXUS130 camera the Lunar topography around 7h19mPM. The Jupiter spectrum has exhibited certain nice features around 18h59mPM of the planet brightness, as vividly illustrated of its intensity profile of the img_6136kln in the Fig.7 of this article. The Sun spectrum through the clouds around 15h21mPM img_6139kln given along with its intensity profile shows marked influence of the Solar flare on the clouds through which the Sun has been observed and image captured.

In the Fig.8 the 8^th Nov 2011 at 19h44mPM the Jupiter spectrum img_61533kln was nicely visible in spite that the Sky has a structured Gray hue. Note that the Jupiter has also been also subject on its atmosphere the intense Solar flare irradiance. Hence the short time spectrum is distinct. The Jupiter brightness relative to the Moon has been illustrated with an intensity profile in the Fig.8 along with the img_6154kln.

The Fig.9 is exclusively devoted to present the intensity profiles of the Sun through a set of six filters to reduce its brightness but yet retaining its main features. The remarkable finding is the Green hue around its magnetosphere. The Heliosphere magnetic field around it does gives out rapidly changing color hues indicating the incredible Solar flares.

Fig.10 of this blog post gives, Moon versus the Jupiter relative brightness and its proximity. A festival day in India of Hindus the Moon shine reflection in Milk is regarded as auspicious and the Spectrum of the Moon reflection in the Milk kept in a stainless steel plate is reproduced here. The profile intensity gives the vivid details of the absorption properties of the milk due to the Moon reflection.  As well the scattering of Moon shine within the milk is interesting. The reflected Moon in the Milk also presents surface details of the Moon at 10h54mPM on 10^th November 2011. At 10h56mPM the slight wind produced scattering of the Moon shine reflected in the milk can be seen.

Fig.11 gives the close up view of the Moon shine reflected spectrum in the Milk with other images of it and their spectra.  A movie picture snap shots reproduces the single first order spectrum of the Moon shine and surprisingly the red hue around it dominates at 3h52mAM on 10^th Nov 2011 but has exhibited the surface features of the Moon. The nearness appearance of Moon and Jupiter is image captured at 22h49mPM on 10^th Nov 2011. The morning spectrum at 3h52mAM shows the foggy weather scenario. The caustic curves in img_6272 are due to the street Na lamp produced by the rim of the stainless steel plate in which the milk was kept. The Moon has its clear reflection just as in the air and the enlarged inset image shows the surface features of the Moon.

Fig. 12 gives the captured image of the Hunter constellation stars and as well the Sirius and the Aldebarren (Rohini) star. The 9^th Nov 2011 nearness of the Moon to Jupiter has been nicely digital frame captured. The intensity profile gives the relative brightness of Jupiter competing almost with that of the Moon. The Sun spectra of the remarkable day evening of 11^th November 2011 show the brilliant visible colors at 16h55 and 16h55mPM. The Yellow glow dominates the sky. The important finding is that the same yellow hue is absent from the airglow shine of the Moon and in its spectrum in the morning of 10^th November 2011 at 4h02mAM.

Fig 13 gives the Moon on the Sea of Bay of Bengal at Visakhapatnam coast and even the sea waters seem to have been enchanted with the glorious Moon shine of the remarkable Day 11^th November 2011. The img-6291kln gives the Sea wave spectra that are found to have been constituted by the Rao and Anti-Rao molecules catalyzed by the radioactive constituents of the beach sands. These sands are very rich in the radioactive constituents. The intensity profile given at the bottom right extreme is totally representative of the Rao and Anti-Rao molecules spectra. The upper profile presents half way through the Air and the other half inside the sea waters in a vertical view. (Given of course as a horizontal illustration).

 

Fig 14 shows the brilliant Sun on 13^th Nov 2011 produces a nice dispersive spectrum through double layers of a plastic pouch. The spectrum displays no yellow band. Red hue bands are dominant over the Green and the blue bands are minimal in intensity profile. The spectrum through an organic root red juice inside the plastic pouch has a horizontal spread and markedly projects a series of Red hue intensity profile reflecting the inner structural futures of the liquid. The img_6321kln and img_6320kln show the Sun image and its spectrum scattered within the liquid. The later image has totally subdued the spectral details depicting that only the red hue is dominant.

 Fig.15 shows the Moon embedded in a gray sky scenario along with the Jupiter. On 13^th Nov 2011 at 19h09mPM the Jupiter has been captured within the Gray sky. The Big Sun Spot AR1339 that turned towards the Earth has indeed caused certain type Electromagnetic radiations to reach the equatorial region much faster the other types. The eruption of the Mount Nyamulagira in eastern Congo Volcano in Congo region might have added to the sudden weather dryness in the Indian Peninsular coast. The morning of 14^th November 2011 was particularly warm. The chilly weather of Coastal Andhra Pradesh that existed during 1^st Nov to 4^th Nov 2011 has dwindled.

 

Fig.16 gives the image of Jupiter, Moon and Hunter just within one frame. The Moon shine was sufficiently bright but the Constellation stars and several nebulae could be image captured by the Canon Camera.

Significant findings and Conclusions:

a. The Moon has its clear reflection on the just as in the air and the enlarged inset image shows the surface features of the Moon. The profile intensity gives the vivid details of the absorption properties of the milk due to the Moon reflection.  As well the scattering of Moon shine within the milk is interesting. The reflected Moon in the Milk also presents surface details of the Moon at 10h54mPM on 10^th November 2011. At 10h56mPM the slight wind produced scattering of the Moon shine reflected in the milk can be seen.

b. The most significant finding is that the Solar flare material and the electromagnetic and other type of radiations interact with the magnetic monopoles many that exist on the Lunar Surface. Perhaps other type of X-rays etc that pass through the Moon interior also interact with the magnetic monopoles embedded deep within the structure of the Moon. A report earlier (see below the details and the published abstract reproduced Ref.1) was given by the present author of the possible identification of these magnetic monopoles during the time of a Lunar eclipse and possibly made evident due to interaction with the far Infra red emission emanating from the Earth.  The series of Moon images on very careful examination has revealed the possible regions on the Moon surface where the magnetic monopoles exist.

c. Another finding is that the Big Sun Spot AR1339 that turned towards the Earth has indeed caused certain type Electromagnetic radiations to reach the equatorial region much faster than the other types. Further, the img-6291kln gives the Sea wave spectra that are found to have been constituted by the Rao and Anti-Rao molecules catalyzed by the radioactive constituents of the beach sands. These sands are very rich in the radioactive constituents. The intensity profile given at the bottom right extreme is totally representative of the Rao and Anti-Rao molecules spectra. The upper profile presents half way through the Air and the other half inside the sea waters in a vertical view.

Notes:

1. The “geodynamo” that generates Earth's magnetic field is powered by heat from the inner core, which drives complex fluid motions in the molten iron of the outer core. But the Moon is too small to support that type of dynamo, according to Christina Dwyer, a graduate student in Earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In the November 10 issue of Nature, Dwyer and her coauthors — planetary scientists Francis Nimmo at UC Santa Cruz and David Stevenson at the California Institute of Technology — describe how an ancient lunar dynamo could have arisen from stirring of the Moon's liquid core driven by the motion of the solid mantle above it. Tidal interactions were also thought to produce a dynamo of the Moon long ago that has no subsided when the Moon moved away from the earth. Even today the Moon is receding from the Earth at a pace of slow shift according to Dwyer and her coauthors.

2. Rocks can become magnetized from the shock of an impact, a mechanism some scientists have proposed to explain the magnetization of lunar samples. Orbital measurements of the magnetization of the lunar crust and recent paleomagnetic analyses of Moon rocks support the idea of dwindled magnetism of the early formative Moon from a liquid core explained Nimmo, a Professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UCSC. The Moon wobbles a bit as it spins (that's called precession) but the core is liquid, and it doesn't do exactly the same precession. So the mantle is moving back and forth across the core, and that stirs up the core.

REFERENCES:

 1. Section X: Mathematics   page 37. Proceedings of the 84 session of the Indian Science Congress Delhi 1997. Section of mathematics, Dt 7^th Jan 1997.

Paper No.67. A MODEL FOR THE TRANSIENT MAGNETIC MONOPOLE EFFECTS OBSERVED DURING THE TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE OF 4^TH APRIL 1996. By K.L.Narayana, Shivaji University, Kolhapur-416004 Maharashtra State.

“A Model for the description of observations of the effects o the transient magnetic monopole situated in the interplanetary space between the Moon and the Earth has been developed by the author and this report constitutes first of its kind data and the model analysis presented herewith. Observational data of the total lunar eclipse observed on the 4^th April 1996 was used. The data was obtained using a sensitive photodetector arrangement and whole night sky observation of the 3^rd-4^th April 1996. The distortion of the magnetic field in the solar wind plasmas umbral and penumbral regions behind the moon were analyzed in terms of the observations reported for 29^th April 1968 by the explorer 35 and 33 between 1345UT and 1430UT. Model developed attempts to analyze the difference in the number of monopoles observed.  

Paper No.68 by K L Narayana is entitled A Model for the Gravity Waves 2.82 GHz (in S-Band) and Photodetection Observations made at Kolhapur of 24^th Oct.1995 Partial Solar Eclipse. And Comparative study with the Alaska 20^th July 1963 Total Solar Eclipse Data.