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

EXACTLY

Long, thin filament detected to the west of region 111332 in NE quadrant.

[link to solarmonitor.org]

SDO images seem to be updating now, but Solarsoft Latest Events is inaccessible.

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

holy crap
i went to SDO to see if they have updated images yet
i saw that they finally a had updated image
so i clicked to see the movie of images for the 25th, expecting to see maybe 10 (they usually have around 89 for a full day
491 is how many images at on for the 25th!
i think they messed up and have all the images for the last 4-5 days all loaded for the 25th
its still loading hahaha

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

Thread: Aurora viewed from the ISS

Haha....last week I had an email exchange w/an esa/nasa guy about the gaps in soho data. He gave me a laundry list of troubles. Some we're all familiar with (bake-outs, orbital adjustments,network outages, etc.) but basically I deduce it's mostly funding, staffing, & laziness in processing the images in timely fashion. I told him the whole heliophysics community is depending on Soho data. I've noticed since I complained Soho has been much better.
He did appear defensive, and seemed to insinuate that I was a tin-foil-hatter (I actually prefer lead foil,lol).
<"SOHO is a science mission and all the data is available to anyone. We have no intention to hide anything, we are scientists, we are trying to explore and discover, not to hide.">"
Funny thing is, I never said anything about "hiding" data; I just wanted to know what the actual cause of the gaps was "to debunk the conspiracy theories."

More filaments and images-besides the above-mentioned filament in the NE there seems to be an almost identical one in the NW quadrant (near 11324)--shaped like an upside-down fishing hook. Mauna Loa Observatory Helium I image:

[link to mlso.hao.ucar.edu]

H-Alpha chromosphere M image:

[link to halpha.nso.edu]

The Plasma Universe of Hannes Alfven:

[link to www.thunderbolts.info]

Full pdf:
[link to www.scientificexploration.org]

***SPACE JUNK UPDATE: Problem solved??? Native American John D. Arwood of Arwood Waste Co. has submitted a proposal for orbtal garbage collection and disposal (I'm not kidding). Hey, maybe they could use one of those old Space Shuttles as a garbage truck....jes' sayin'.

[link to www.spacemart.com]

the filaments sure are becoming more and more common

Wasn't for long...:/ It looks like I left about the time you guys came in:(

yup, by the looks of it you left right as i came on
shame shame
today is my big solar prediction day hehe
lets see whats going to happen

supprise for SDO
they now have hundreds of images for each day
SO much better for viewing the sunspot and activity



crossing my fingers it is not a mistake and it stays this way!

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

yup, by the looks of it you left right as i came on
shame shame
today is my big solar prediction day hehe
lets see whats going to happen

STEREO Ahead shows a CME blast at 11-12:00 UTC-looks like it's coming our way. SOHO not updating.

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

Might be that filament in the northwest near 1324. Further investigation is needed.

good catch Hugh... thanks for the update

I'm almost 100% sure it was the NW filament. It took some digging, but I found before and after pics from the GONG H-alpha network;

Bfeore (02:54 utc: [link to halpha.nso.edu]
After (09:40 utc): [link to halpha.nso.edu]

Still shots from Stereo Ahead 1 hour apart:

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]
[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

Nice catch mate :)
lets see if anyone picks this one up before it hits us?
peace

looking at SDO, it looks like it came from the area of 1324 :)
you can see this on todays SDO movie

Last Edited by NiNzrez on 10/26/2011 02:18 PM

I had a dream last night, I saw a big ball detach it self from the sun and it was heading towards earth.

Nov 7th I keep hearing that date too.

[link to iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov]
should hit us about the 30th according to this

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]
OMG LOOK AT THIS

G'day, NINz!

I did see a burp in that area on SDO composite images. You're so right about increased number of images-I tried to get a movie of 7 hour time-frame and it loaded more than a 150 images....took forever.

Here's a cool time-lapse video of yesterdays geomagnetic storm from the NICT magnetosphere simulation. Maybe you could embed video for me.


[link to www.youtube.com]

Are we talking about something really big?

I agree those were awesome pics...thanks for sharing.

Now back to catching up with Ninz thread...

awesome.. thanks :)

here you go ^^

Going back to the alignment with Jupiter.....is it today??


I looked it up @ Solar System Scope and it looks to be an alignment today or am I wrong?? Plus looks like it sort of aligns with Saturn too......


[link to www.solarsystemscope.com]

This CME is much smaller than than last weeks but IMO it's gonna hit Earth more directly- of course a lot depends on the polarity. I have read recently that events near the western limb tend to be more geo-effective due to the Parker Spiral (seen on the models) which sweep the solar winds towards Earth.

SOHO is letting me down again-just when I thought they were picking up their game, lol. Latest updated movie from STEREO A:
[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

As for the Farside maps-they're Doppler magnetograms which show fluctuations in magnetic field strength. They sometimes appear scarier than they are. Here's a whole page of Farside maps-scroll down and see how they change.

[link to gong.nso.edu]

THANK YOU!

NIN, when are you gonna make us some of your great Helioviewer movies? I really miss those.

i believe the thing we have learned from this last geomagnetic storm is, it does not take a HUGE CME to effect us greatly
none of us suspected that the kinda small filament ejection on the 22nd would have such an effect
for 2 reasons...
1. it did not look like it had a lot of mass to it, compared to many others we have see in recent times
and 2 because it was not in a direct hit direction

so most of us looked at this as a not to big CME that would maybe have a glancing blow
we see these glancing blow CME's a lot
most of the time they maybe stir up a Kp5 at most and do not have much effect
for sure nothing to write home about

this latest filament that sent a CME in our direction for a glancing blow, stirring up a Kp7 storm and red green auroras far south showed us that in this case anyways, it is not the size that counts.
We should therefore be on alert for any and all CME's headed in our direction, even is they look like they will only have a glancing blow
IMO

i read somewhere that it is on Saturday Oct 29th
Saturn-Jupiter grand conjunction, hummmm
right around one date for the end of the Mayan calendar
interesting times