Super Solar Storm 2012 Onset

This morning, apparently a solar storm had been hitting over Singapore sky with continuous flashes of lightning or aurora. Could this be the onset of super solar storm as forewarned by NASA earlier in 2006? The biggest recorded super solar storm was in 1859 which caused the telegraph system worldwide went haywire; spark discharge shocked telegraph operators and caused telegraph paper caught fire. Rare aurora were even observed in tropical latitude area.

Courtesy of stomp.com.sg

The recent solar storm in 1989 induced power surges which melted power transformers in New Jersey and blacking out 6 million populated area in Canada for 9 hours. The impact of next solar storm to the world today which is heavily dependent on electronic devices could be more catastrophic than one can imagine 10 years ago. Check out what you can basically do to survive this solar storm here.

Rare Total Earth Eclipse on 15 June 2011 20:12 UTC (17:23-23:02 UTC) @Moon

Total Earth Eclipse on moon (courtesy of  Lucien Rudaux)

A rare total earth eclipse can be observed from the moon on 15 June 2011 20:12 UTC (16 June 03:12am Malaysia/Singapore time) yet no one can afford to travel easily to the moon for this observation. Back on the earth, continents from Africa to Singapore is fortunate to be able to observe rare total "central" lunar eclipse this month. Top 3 reasons why you should enjoy this rare phenomena.

1.  The last total "central" lunar eclipse happened on 16 July 2000. The last total lunar eclipse occurred on 21 Dec last year was not central to the earth.

2. Next total lunar eclipse (not central) only happens on 10 Dec 2011 and 15 April 2014 etc.

3. Feel like having insomnia in Malaysia and Singapore at this particular period of time (00:23-06:02am 16 June 2011) :P

Last but not least if you bring along your ipad2 or laptop, you can also watch Malaysian government web portals being hacked by "Anonymous" at this hour too (0330am to be precise).