Today, sunspot 1289
has a 30% chance for a M flare
has a 16% chance for a X flare
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link to spaceweather.inf.brad.ac.uk]
1283 - is now on the western edge. Although 1283 still hold a chance for a M flare, it poses little threat
1289 - Now all eyes are on monster sunspot region 1289 as well as a very large region behind 1289 that will be rotation over the eastern limb in the next few days
Region 11289 added several spots in a new penumbra to the south of the large penumbra. The new penumbra could easily develop a magnetic delta structure
1289 has a beta-gamma configuration as of the time of this post
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link to www.solen.info]
here is the latest SDO magnetogram image of the sun
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link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]
on this composite we can see well the sunspot regions
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link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]
here we can see the sunspot region that is just over the eastern limb of the sun and will be rotating earths direction over the next few days
this is on STEREO Behind, an image taken of the left side of the sun, from earths view
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link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]
the big bright section in the middle top section is the region i speak of
here it is on the GONG Calibrated Farside Map
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link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]
(the spot circled in red)
lets comapre that region to 1283 that produced most of the main activity we have seen this past week
1283 is the bright spot on the top left section in this image
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link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]
