SUNNA
Inspiración para sonificar las tormentas solares
Cuando era niña, acompañaba a mi padre al trabajo en un observatorio geofísico. Mientras dormía en el coche durante el viaje, observaba el amanecer. Al llegar al observatorio, me quedaba en el coche hasta que la luz se hacía tan intensa que ya no podía seguir durmiendo. Mi padre tenía un escritorio de madera y una radio de radiofrecuencia con la que se comunicaba con otro observatorio. Los mensajes eran números y había que enviarlos a una hora exacta. Luego, salíamos al campo y visitábamos diferentes áreas con maquinarias y cabinas oscuras. No sé para qué servían exactamente cada una de ellas, pero seguramente para medir movimientos de energías terrestres. La primera vez que vi una esfera de cristal, quedé fascinada. Mi padre tomó una cinta de papel milimétrico que había sido dibujada por el sol y me explicó que este instrumento, llamado heliógrafo, servía para medir la intensidad de los rayos solares. Ahora tengo algunas esferas de cristal o vidrio y me gustaría ver si puedo construir un heliógrafo con ellas.
Inspiration for sonifying solar storms
When I was a child, I used to accompany my father to work at a geophysical observatory. While I slept in the car during the trip, I watched the sunrise. When we arrived at the observatory, I stayed in the car until the light became so intense that I could no longer sleep. My father had a wooden desk and a radio frequency radio with which he communicated with another observatory. The messages were numbers and had to be sent at an exact time. Then we went out into the field and visited different areas with machinery and dark booths. I don’t know exactly what each of them was for, but surely to measure movements of terrestrial energies. The first time I saw a crystal sphere, I was fascinated. My father took a millimeter paper tape that had been drawn by the sun and explained to me that this instrument, called a heliograph, was used to measure the intensity of solar rays. Now I have some crystal or glass spheres and I would like to see if I can build a heliograph with them.
Those memories of my childhood have remained stored in my memory as if they were zero points of amazement and discovery. The Sun could draw lines on paper, and now it can be heard through the sound interpretation of data. These data belong to solar flares, which are recorded by NASA’s instruments and published on their website in a digital format, making them easily accessible.
Fuentes para obtener datos del Sol
Latest images from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO – EUVI/COR1/COR2/HI1/HI2)
