SOLAR WATCH * Huge X8.2 Flare Sept. 10, 2017! (Updated Daily)

NOAA has now numbered the region that the X1.4 flare originated from as Region 1302. As mentioned prior, this is the return of old Region 1283. You may remember that 1283 produced an X2.1 on Sept. 6, and an X1.8 on Sept. 7, earlier this month.

SDO close-up movie-wowie. [link to sdowww.lmsal.com]

SDO close-up movie-wowie. [link to sdowww.lmsal.com]

YO, Tom & I Want To Believe-Did you guys see the massive CME from 9/21@22:20 UTC. It was huge-from behind the Western Limb I believe.

[link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov]
[link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov]

Updated cygnet streamer shows the 9/21 CME- Mercury and Mars are toast,LOL.
[link to iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080]

This solar flare brought to you by the Number 7.

Now, stay tuned for Doom.. er, uh, I mean "Zoom".





[link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov]

This solar flare brought to you by the Number 7.

Now, stay tuned for Doom.. er, uh, I mean "Zoom".





[link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov]

These long duration flares are becoming very common the last week and half...I do believe solarcycle 24 is kicking into gear...something is changing with the nature of the flares no doubt...

Wow
Thanks Tom and IWTB. What great info and pics. I knew something was up when I woke with a headache. Wow. Does anyone have a screenshot of the absorbtion map?? Thanks Again.

This cycle has been full of LDEs and CMEs. When we start having LDE X flares, it stops and makes you think. There was a massive CME with this one as well, probably a good thing that it was not facing us.

Thanks. What's up with SOHO? I think its like a turtle, every time it gets scary it hides its head for six hours. Sometimes the gaps are filled in, sometimes not.

I agree...sooner or later our luck is going to run out...crazy stuff

Thats right. I have been watching this and calculating the large flares and CMEs directions for quite a while now. I noticed a pattern a while back. The majority of the large CMEs have been in the direction of Jupiter. We are slowly but surely catching up to an alignment with the planet. We will be in alignment with Jupiter at the end of October. We will be in that general alignment for quite a bit longer. All of those really huge backside CMEs that we have been having all year were blasted off in Jupiter's direction, and now we have almost rotated around to that same side of the Sun. Jupiter takes 11.86 Earth years to make one complete orbit of the Sun. My hunch is that the gravitational pull of Jupiter has an influence on the sunspot regions. I have no scientific data on this other than my own observations so I will leave it at that.

In the case of Jupiter, the larger circuit is that between the gas giant and the Sun. In the case of the Sun, the larger circuit connects the Sun to a spiraling arm of the Milky Way. And there is evidence aplenty that galaxies themselves are joined in still larger electrical exchange. Where the hierarchy ends, no one can say. But that it exists is substantiated by every line of investigation that has been opened up in recent decades. There are no isolated islands in space: All objects in space are connected in a web of cosmic circuitry.

An electrical interaction between Jupiter and its moons means that the bodies are charged. (As soon as you grant that one body is charged, the other body is also charged in relationship to it). Jupiter is not an island. It stands in a dynamic electrical relationship to the Sun, just as does the Earth. It is now known that charged particles from the Sun, not a terrestrial "dynamo", power Earth's auroras. The same thing can be said of Jupiter's auroras, though this was as contrary to astronomers' assumptions as was the confirmation of the Sun's input to terrestrial auroras. Work by scientists at the University of Leicester in the UK found “a strong correlation between the strength of the solar wind and the behaviour of [Jupiter’s] auroras". But this was "completely the opposite result to the one we were expecting from our predictions".

Of course, what is surprising or illogical from one vantage point may be "reasoning from the obvious" in another.

A: Jupiter interacts electrically with its moons.

B: Jupiter interacts electrically with the Sun, as does the Earth.

C: The planets in the Solar System are charged bodies.

D: The sun has an electric field.

Wow this is probably the biggest CME I've seen since I've been keeping track of this stuff. Just look at the simulation:
[link to iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080]

Who knows how big the flare really was since it was on the limb? I wonder why they don't haves a satellite that measures flares on the backside of the sun?
Things could get very interesting as this sunspot turns toward earth.

They shot something at the sun to make it convulse, and they don't want us to see.

that is a clever observation:



A, B, C, D, Electric Solar System


[link to www.thunderbolts.info]

thanks tom