/Sunspot Observatory General/

That observatory was apparently shutdown and town evacuated because of...CP(child porn). (seriously, whoever made this coverup at FBI was on drugs). Yeah, thats the official story.Something definitely fishy is going on.
https://www.inquisitr.com/5073719/sunspot-solar-observatory-in-new-mexico-shut-down-by-the-fbi-last-week-still-closed-here-are-the-theories/
As previously reported by the Inquisitr, on Thursday, September 6, FBI agents swooped into the remote Mexico town, by some accounts in a Blackhawk helicopter and ordered everyone out. The observatory was evacuated, a nearby post office was evacuated, even a dozen or so homes in the area were evacuated. And no one – not the FBI, not the academic consortium that manages the observatory – is saying why. Even local law enforcement has been left in the dark.


Some juicy details:
*Some claim other observatories were "taken-over" by FBI or even shutdown
*"The National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, NM has been closed since last Thursday, along with the nearby post office, and employees affected have no idea why. The mysterious activity coincides with a solar storm, which hit Earth this week "
The mysterious activity has sparked conspiracy theories across the internet given its alignment with with this week's solar storm. A solar storm that could damage power supplies, affect satellites and trigger aurora was expected to slam the Earth's atmosphere Sept 11
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6165717/Solar-observatory-finally-releases-statement-week-shut-address-security-issue.html
*Agents were reported to climb antennas of the observatory "‘There was a Blackhawk helicopter, a bunch of people around antennas and work crews on towers but nobody would tell us anything.’"
*Its near Roswell and major military testing sites( U.S. Air Force's Holloman Air Force Base and the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range)
* Denial from director:
“There is nothing we observed with the telescope that made us close anything, nothing the telescope saw,” professor of astronomy at New Mexico State University and Sunspot Solar Observatory Director R.T. James McAteer told Salon. “We did not see aliens, we did not see exoplanets, we did not see strange solar storms.”
https://www.salon.com/2018/09/14/the-director-of-the-sunspot-observatory-is-not-sure-why-the-feds-shut-it-down/

*Town police wasn't even informed of anything
*the Explanation came a week later after shutdown
*Janitor implicated in CP distribution WASN'T Arrested.
*Residents report Blackhawk helicopters and military presence
*Daily threads on /pol/ filled with shills as if its something important
*Some sort of rumor about alien space fleets near the sun captured on camera
*Weird sun anomalies have been detected recently: see http://www.bbso.njit.edu/ Sept 19, 2018: GST Sees New Structures in Sunspot Light Bridges
High-resolution TiO images and Fe i 1565 nm spectropolarimetric data taken by the 1.6 m Goode Solar Telescope showed new details in the fine structure of sunspot light bridges (LBs). Researchers found striking knot-like dark structures within the central dark lane that may migrate away from the penumbra along the LB. A faint central dark lane and striking transverse intergranular lanes in LBs have sizes and intensity depressions comparable to those of the dark knots and also migrate away from the penumbra at similar speeds. Our study reveals that LBs may be made up of a chain of evolving convection cells, as indicated by patches of blueshift surrounded by narrow lanes of redshift. The central dark lane generally corresponds to blueshifts, supporting the previous suggestion of central dark lanes being the top parts of convection upflows. In contrast, the intergranular lanes are associated with redshifts and located at two sides of each convection cell. The magnetic fields are stronger in intergranular lanes than in the central dark lane. These results suggest that these intergranular lanes are manifestations of convergent convective downflows in the LB. We also provide evidence that the dark knots may have a similar origin.

Original paper titled "Dark Structures in Sunspot Light Bridges" by Jingwen Zhang, Hui Tian, Sami K. Solanki, Haimin Wang, Hardi Peter, Kwangsu Ahn, Yan Xu, Yingjie Zhu, Wenda Cao, Jiansen He, and Linghua Wang was published in the September 19 2018 issue of Astrophysical Journal (IOP ApJ)

https://www.ktsm.com/news/local/el-paso-news/child-pornography-reason-behind-sunspot-observatory-closure-according-to-court-documents/1460386237
Here is the article about FBI explanation.

Theory for Sun:
They saw some evidence in subtle changes in Sun's spectral emissions indicating some transition/event is going to occur soon, the event is catastrophic and government wants to prevent panic.

Theory for Aliens:
They saw some sort of alien interference with the Sun, changing its chemical composition/dumping explosives/chemicals/etc, with the effect Sun is going to explode/flash its outer layer/transition,etc as above and the government wanted to prevent panic.

Theory for Sattellite/Spaceship detection(and Aliens of course):
They saw some secret military sun orbiting satellite or platform by accident and files of the evidence needed to be seized/erased. Antennas were disabled to prevent transmission.
Its kinda weak - there isn't that much importance to sun orbiting stuff as opposed to Earth-centric spy sats, since there tons of other observatories, but perhaps they have some computer filtering capability that allows to track changes in sun disk to notice such objects more efficiently or something about the object was unique or perhaps its of alien origin(alien satellite/alien spaceship) that would coincide with "Alien Space Armada near the sun" rumors(however this would be visible likewise to every other telescope, the evacuation wouldn't make sense in context and antennas either).

I can't to think of anything else that would necessitate such evacuation/interference..the director is obviously hiding something and its Sun-related 100% - they launched a sun probe recently (Parker Probe) that suppose to go really close to Sun surface(with special hardened electronics) which indicates urgent interest in Sun chemistry that is hard to understand with Earth-based telescope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_Solar_Probe
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe/
https://scitechdaily.com/revealing-first-light-data-from-parker-solar-probe/

Child porn is the one and only thing that can be censored from discovery and public records requests via FOIA.

So thats explains why they choose such a stupid excuse. It will impossible to declassify in the future.

>>4
Clues:
1.Event must be classified long-term.
2.Director of observatory statement that denies its related to space.
3.Technical crews in evacuated building(climbing towers?): evidence destruction and checking for transmitter bugs/recording devices(to avoid spies catching the leaked data).
4.Media not informed for a week: have to create a plausible story.
5.Odd chemical smell reported: likely result of destruction of on-site equipment and elimination of evidence.
6.Helicopters: urgent operation requiring fast coordination.
7.Evacuation: search and filtering of town for employees with evidence.

Probably someone from the observatory tried to publish his findings, its got to FBI and they mounted urgent operation during which the employee was captured in town being evacuated, then they had to search homes/post office for flash drives/disk drives with evidence(to prevent it being mailed/hidden in town). The whole operation was to capture an information source before it spreads. This explains post office/town evac/antennas and length closure. So far nothing contradicts this theory, and the conclusion is something big is going to happen in the sun soon.

ayy lmao

Anti-glow bump.

Anyone like the TV series "Sliders"? I do, it has such great content.

Fucking alien outer space paedophiles

One site explains it as a Chinese spying program being exposed and FBI just searched for recording equipment/bugs.
It doesn't make sense to evacuate the entire town though and the high-profile operation should instead be discreet(to capture spies if they try to check on devices again).
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23582/mysterious-evacuation-of-solar-observatory-overlooking-white-sands-smells-like-espionage
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23609/watch-this-guy-go-up-to-the-mysteriously-evacuated-sunspot-observatory-and-walk-all-around
http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/23624/mysteriously-evacuated-sunspot-observatory-set-to-reopen-according-to-official-statement

>>8
Sliders is a great series. People are missing out.

Rogue spy satellite relay?

>>12
Why would this lead to evacuation, a relay can't represent danger, its just a piece of equipment.

>>9
This proves that aliens are christians too.
YHVH confirmed by independent source.

http://lurkmore.so/images/3/3c/BadlamVybory.jpg

he votes Obama.

Why do retarded boomers believe in YHWH and aliens? I get that they're both invisible magical beings that give people confidence, but YHWH and aliens are not compatible.

>>16
we wuz alien fallen angel atlanteans and shit

The FOXSI sounding rocket will scour the Sun with X-ray vision, looking for the mysterious mini-explosions that heat the corona to millions of degrees.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180904150350.htm
Finding the traces of nanoflares requires X-ray vision, and scientists have been hard at work developing the best tools for the job. The latest advance in this project is represented by NASA's Focusing Optics X-ray Solar Imager, or FOXSI mission, soon to take its third flight from the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico, no earlier than Sept. 7.

FOXSI is a sounding rocket mission. Derived from the nautical term "to sound," meaning to measure, sounding rockets make brief 15-minute journeys above Earth's atmosphere for a peek at space before falling back to the ground. Smaller, cheaper and faster to develop than large-scale satellite missions, sounding rockets offer a way for scientists to test their latest ideas and instruments -- and achieve rapid results.

FOXSI will travel 190 miles up, above the shield of Earth's atmosphere, to stare directly at the Sun and search for nanoflares using its X-ray vision.

"FOXSI is the first instrument built specially to image high-energy X-rays from the Sun by directly focusing them," said Lindsay Glesener, space physicist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and principal investigator for the mission. "Other instruments have done this for other astronomical objects, but FOXSI is so far the only instrument to optimize especially for the Sun."

The Sun tells its story in layers of light, each of which reveals what's happening at different temperatures. For example, the sunlight that our eyes can see is primarily from the Sun's photosphere, which is approximately 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. But there's much more going on outside the bounds of human vision. X-ray light, in particular, reveals processes that heat plasma to millions of degrees Fahrenheit, like the most violent explosions at the cores of nanoflares.

But high-quality views of X-rays from the Sun don't come easy. Unlike visible light, X-rays are hard to focus; they are largely unaffected by the lenses and mirrors used in conventional telescopes. Previous X-ray missions had to make do without focused light.

"In the past we generally used cleverly selected masks to block out some part of the incoming X-rays," said Säm Krucker, space physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, and principal investigator for FOXSI's two previous flights. "This does not result in very high-quality images, but it nevertheless gave us crucial information on the most energetic part of solar flares."

To focus the X-rays, the FOXSI team used extremely hard, smooth surfaces tilted to a small angle (less than half a degree) that would gently corral incoming X-ray light to a point of focus.

"Thanks to these telescopes we can now make focused X-ray images of our Sun" said Krucker. "These images have a much-improved image quality at a much higher sensitivity."

This will be FOXSI's third flight -- its first was in 2012, during which it successfully viewed a small solar flare in progress, and its second in 2014, when it detected the best evidence at the time of X-ray emission from nanoflares. The third mission follows up on this discovery, but this time it includes a new telescope designed for imaging lower-energy, so-called soft X-rays as well.

"Including the soft X-ray telescope gives us more precise temperatures," said Glesener, allowing the team to spot nanoflare signatures that would be missed with the hard X-ray telescopes alone. In addition, several other performance improvements have been made to produce more accurate, higher-resolution images.

Bump, what's going on with these sunspots

https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/sunspot-solar-observatory-reopens-after-mysterious-shutdown/
Its operating normally now.
Another interesting bit, "Sunspot will coordinate with the Parker Solar Probe, for example. The recently launched NASA probe will spend the next seven years snuggling up to the Sun, eventually orbiting at a harrowing distance of just 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles"

https://sunspot.solar/research
They have this page, but the site looks empty otherwise.
https://www.whois.com/whois/sunspot.solar
Apparently it was made just 2 months ago.

>>21
Best equipment in the world yet they made a website just a few weeks before the incident..
Also the https://sunspot.solar/research link in the earliest capture was instead link to some news article that wasn't archived
https://web.archive.org/web/20180816125931/https://sunspot.solar/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180816125931/https://sunspot.solar/news-notes-ready

>>22
local webserver? lol

https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00571.1

there were huge changes in spectrum that were dismissed as "undetected instrument sensitivity drifts"

Recent observations made by the Spectral Irradiance Monitor (SIM) on the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) spacecraft suggest that the Sun’s visible and infrared spectral irradiance increased from 2004 to 2008, even as the total solar irradiance measured simultaneously by SORCE’s Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) decreased. At the same time, solar ultraviolet (UV) irradiance decreased 3–10 times more than expected from prior observations and model calculations of the known effects of sunspot and facular solar features. Analysis of the SIM spectral irradiance observations during the solar minimum epoch of 2008, when solar activity was essentially invariant, exposes trends in the SIM observations relative to both total solar irradiance and solar activity that are unlikely to be solar in origin. The authors suggest that the SIM’s radically different solar variability characterization is a consequence of undetected instrument sensitivity drifts, not true solar spectrum changes. It is thus doubtful that simulations of climate and atmospheric change using SIM measurements are indicative of real terrestrial behavior.

Hubble Telescope is effectively shutdown
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2018/10/hubble-space-te.html

Kepler Telescope will be shutdown soon too.
https://www.space.com/41984-nasa-kepler-exoplanet-telescope-not-dead-yet.html
The reign of NASA's champion exoplanet-hunting telescope Kepler may be coming to an end this month, according to an update from the agency posted yesterday (Sept. 28).

That's because two systems are troubling the aging telescope: New data shows that the instrument is struggling to point precisely across the heavens, even as it continues to run out of fuel, according to the agency statement.

The team behind Kepler has turned off the instrument temporarily, then will wake it up again on Oct. 10, when it is due to send its next batch of data back to Earth. At this point, according to NASA, there's no way to tell whether that process will be successful. If it is, they'll set the telescope back to gathering data, trying to eke out as much as possible from the machine.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/markets-by-sector/agriculture/solar-minimum-biggest-decline-maybe-ever/
The sun is entering perhaps one of the deepest Solar Minima in thousands of years. Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018. This is really alarming. Since the start of 2018, there have been totally spotless days for weeks. The sun’s ultraviolet output has sharply declined and this is not going to end well.

We can see that this decline in Solar Cycle #24 has been a rapid decline that is twice as fast than any previously. Already the the upper atmosphere is losing heat energy. NASA has conceded that if the current trend continues, this could become a dramatic cold period far worse than many people suspect. The Global Warming crowd is leading the world down a dangerous path because they have been paid $1 billion to create fake research in order to raise taxes as they have been doing in Europe and Canada. Our computer us projecting a very serious decline in sunspot activity. This will be the backdrop to the rise in agricultural prices we see between 2020 and 2024. Of course, thanks to the Global Warming people, it will be too late to prepare.

The Huge Decline in UV is puzzling:
Sun May Emit Less UV Energy by Mid-Century, Which Could Slow But Not Halt Global Warming, Scientists Say
https://weather.com/science/space/news/2018-02-06-sun-grand-minimum-cooling-less-energy

Chandra Telescope which is vital for X-ray observations is shutdown too.
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/10/12/second-nasa-space-telescope-shuts-down-as-hubble-hibernates.html