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02 September 10 Daily forecast status indicators for solar, geomagnetic and ionospheric conditions can be Green (normal), Yellow (moderate activity) or Red (disturbed). The IPS Space Weather page shows current conditions.

31 August 10 The gearbox in the Culgoora Solar Observatory H-alpha and white light telescope has been reparied and re-installed. The telescope has returned to solar patrol. back on patrol

11 August 10 The remounting of the Culgoora A band antenna has been delayed due to rain. The recent rain has kept the ground too soft for crane operations. Additional rain over the last few days has further delayed the remount. A band antenna remount delayed

11 August 10 The Culgoora optical patrol telescope, which provides H-alpha flare patrol and white light observations of the solar disk is currently not on solar patrol due to a fault in the drive gearbox. Its is hoped that the telescope will return to patrol either late this week or early next week.

05 July 10 Real time ionospheric scintillation data from Weipa (Qld) and Darwin (NT) now available through the Satellite page.

20 April 10 The IPS Culgoora Solar Observatory A band antenna is off line for bearing replacement. The radiospectrograph can provide inferred coronal mass ejection information from the types of radio sweep events observed during and after some solar flares. Expected back on patrol early July.

09 April 10 A major geomagnetic storm was observed on 05 April possibly due to a combined effect of a coronal hole and a partial halo CME that was observed on 03 April 2010. The solar cycle 24 seems to be getting more active.

09 April 10 IPS tool for the prediction of reliability for single and multi frequency digital HF radio transmission or reception is now available through this link.

08 April 10 Solar cycle 24 may be getting more active. The sunspot number has been gradually rising for the last few months and the frequency of big flares has increased too. Eight M-class flares were observed in February 2010. solar flare activity

24 March 10 The Learmonth Solar Observatory 28 foot dish that monitors 245Mhz to 610Mhz has resumed solar patrol. The antenna will again be off patrol in 10-12weeks time for gearbox replacement. patrol resumes

09 March 10 World Data Centre: A new data set, GPS Scintillation data and its README file, has been added onto World Data Centre FTP Download site.

08 March 10 The 28 foot diameter solar radio dish at Learmonth Solar Observatory which monitors solar radio emission at 245,410 and 610Mhz has developed a mechanical fault. Apparently the motor/gearbox needs to be replaced which requires the lowering of the dish. Due to the size of the structure this data outage is expected to be extensive. This may affect the accuracy of some interpolated IFLUX values. outage

11 February 10 The IT problem that impacted real time mapping services has been fixed. service restored

11 February 10 A computer problem since 09UT on 10 Feb at IPS is currently affecting real time mapping of the ionosphere, both for the global and Australian regions. The maps being produced are not indicative of NVIS support. Since the maps are not indicative of current conditions, this probably means the real time HAP charts are not usable. IPS apologizes for this service disruption. IPS IT are working to resolve this problem as quickly as possible. service diruption

24 January 10 Culgoora Solar image processing restored after switching to back up computer. data flow resumes

22 January 10 Culgoora Solar imagery currently unavailable due to a computer failure at IPS. The outage may last until next Thursday. data outage

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