SOLAR WATCH * 252 M & 18 X FLARES starting 3-7-2011 (Updated Daily)

SDO's 1600 angstrom channel is showing anomalies that look nearly identical to those seen on the Stereo EIT 195 images that have previously been under debate of their origin. I haven't checked how many frames these exist in, though from the current image to the three prior all had them in the images. How could two different telescopes with completely different optics at far different wavelengths just happen to have the same shapes if it's an artifact? I have never seen compression artifacts on SDO's images, other than for a single frame with clear data corruption and missing segments of the image.. the first link had the brightness increased to make it slightly easier to see what I'm talking about-

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Cactus just updated, looks like a HALO III this morning

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have ya'll seen this..check out about 6 mins in

This is the most recent one i can find. Ends in November

**Solar** pole reversal update:

[link to s16.postimage.org]

Two snapshots, the first being the state of the poles two months ago, the second being the latest update, yesterday. You can clearly see the progress of the pole reversal.

The south pole's equatorward latitudes have weakened from around +25 uT in fall 2011 to around 0 uT this fall.

The north pole's polemost latitudes have weakened from -35 uT to 0 uT during the same period. We can also see that the equatorward latitudes of the north pole have strengthened greatly since last year, after having capped out at +10 uT the last two springs, readings have already matched that high and we are still months away from spring, when the readings will max out!

All in all very promising signs from both poles that this jammed reversal is beginning to figure itself out.

(source of graphs, data [link to www.leif.org] [link to wso.stanford.edu] )

Earth's Radiation Belts Surprisingly Dynamic, New Probes Find
Two new NASA probes that are flying through the belts of radiation surrounding Earth have found that these regions change more rapidly than previously thought.
The Van Allen Probes — a pair of twin spacecraft formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes — launched Aug. 30, and turned on their instruments two days later. Since then, the spacecraft have returned unprecedented measurements of the zones of charged particles, called the Van Allen radiation belts, around our planet. In these zones,trillions of high-energy particles released by the sun are trapped by Earth's magnetic field.
The full article is here: [link to www.space.com]

Well I'm no expert but I think that could be a telescope artifact. I have a telescope, and when you are trying to focus in on something sometimes that piece with the cross bars shows up and looks like that object she pointed out in the video.

Looks like something to do with the lens.

WOW!! Current SDO 131!

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And 171!

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It looks like one of the symbols in the video that Hugh posted today.. very, very strange.

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Good Morning all

I'm having a hard time trying to deciphering which of the events was the origin of this incoming CME.

On one hand we have a C1.7 from SR now numbered 1628 in the NE corner
2012/12/05 00:12:00 00:28:00 00:28:00 C1.7 N14E83 ( 1628 )

downgraded to a Halo II

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On the other hand SO brought up above a filament eruption in the SE (that I wasn't even aware of) as the origin.



Here's some links ....

[link to helioviewer.org]

[link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov]

Let me know your thoughts, please ....

Here is the filament eruption from the SW that SHAD pointed out,

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Huge eruption, although it appears much of the ejecta returned back into the sun.

Cactus just updated, looks like a HALO III this morning

[link to www.sidc.oma.be]

**Solar** pole reversal update:

[link to s16.postimage.org]

Two snapshots, the first being the state of the poles two months ago, the second being the latest update, yesterday. You can clearly see the progress of the pole reversal.

The south pole's equatorward latitudes have weakened from around +25 uT in fall 2011 to around 0 uT this fall.

The north pole's polemost latitudes have weakened from -35 uT to 0 uT during the same period. We can also see that the equatorward latitudes of the north pole have strengthened greatly since last year, after having capped out at +10 uT the last two springs, readings have already matched that high and we are still months away from spring, when the readings will max out!

All in all very promising signs from both poles that this jammed reversal is beginning to figure itself out.

(source of graphs, data [link to www.leif.org] [link to wso.stanford.edu] )