Culgoora Solar Observatory H-Alpha imagery are used for flare patrol of the solar chromosphere.
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	Check weather conditions at Culgoora by viewing the CSIRO ATNF Weather Station page. You can also check the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology's district forecast. Cloud conditions can be checked by viewing the latest infrared satellite image of the Australian Region on the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology website. Culgoora Solar Observatory (near the township of Narrabri) is located at 30.28South, 149.58 East.
	Last Auto detected flare in image: Last updated 04 Jul 2009 06:18 UT PLAIN CULGOORA HALPHA FLARE AUTO DETECTED FLARE START: 04/11/2008 03:28UT MAX : 04/11/2008 03:29UT IMPORTANCE: 0 AREA: 61 (uncorrected millionths of solar disk) BRIGHTNESS: Faint LAT: 36 LONG: 43 REGION: 1007
The above image has been processed for automatic flare patrol. To avoid saturation of the image, the camera that acquires these images will adjust the exposure time of the CCD during solar flares, this will result in the image appearing darker during flare activity.The automatic flare detection technique is described in this document on solar flare patrol. You can view the latest unprocessed H-Alpha image from Culgoora Observatory here.	Current Solar X-Ray Flux from GOES satellite (US Space Weather Prediction Center)
Observatory Status (weekdays only, when staffed): Last updated 02 Jul 2009 23:55 UT Culgoora Observatory Morning Operational Status Issued on 02/07/09 at 22UT (03/07/09 08LT) Optical Status Seeing: Poor/fair Halpha: Operative White light: Operative Radio Status Spectrograph: Operative Comment: Expect some cloud later	Image of last auto-detected solar flare: H-Alpha Patrol Movies (mpeg 700kb) 21-23UT 23-01UT 01-03UT 03-05UT 05-07UT

Last optically correlated xray flare greater than M1: