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

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.

THANK YOU!

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

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

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

Keep in mind that even a small CME is huge compared to the size of Earth.

[link to umbra.gsfc.nasa.gov:80]

awesome.. thanks :)

here you go ^^

These pictures were posted on another thread, anybody got a clue what it is on the sun. These pictures were captured of the SDO website before they removed them.

Pictures: [link to s1194.photobucket.com]


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Thread: Check These SDO Images Of The Sun, Something is Eclipsing It. Pin!

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

Earth’s aurorae demonstrate the electrical connection between our planet and the Sun.

The Sun unleashed another coronal mass ejection (CME) on October 22, 2011, causing an outburst of colorful displays in nighttime skies as far south as Arkansas, in the United States.

There is an electrically active structure called a magnetotail (or plasma tail) extending for millions of kilometers from Earth, always pointing away from the Sun. The flow of charged particles ejected from the Sun, called the solar wind, is captured by our planet’s magnetosphere, collected in a plasma sheet within the magnetotail, and held together by our magnetic field.Energetic ions stream into Earth’s magnetic field down into the poles, exciting atmospheric molecules to the point where they emit various colors of light: red frequencies from oxygen at high altitudes, green from oxygen at lower altitudes, and blue light from nitrogen.

Electromagnetic instabilities also occur when a bright aurora is seen. In 1903, Kristian Birkeland and a Norwegian research team undertook an expedition to the Arctic, where they discovered that electric charge from the Aurora Borealis flowed parallel to the auroral formation.

In 1966, the U.S. Navy satellite, TRIAD, recorded those magnetic disturbances as it passed over Earth’s polar regions and through what were named the Van Allen Radiation Belts. Those vertical electric currents that flow to Earth from the solar wind were named, “Birkeland currents” by Alex Dessler in 1969. During the recent substorm, Norwegian scientists again detected electricity flowing through the ground under the auroral glow.

Birkeland’s polar electric currents are known today as auroral electrojets, and they are connected to electric circuits following Earth’s geomagnetic field into and away from the Arctic and Antarctic regions. NASA scientists label this electric effect a “new” discovery. Although they acknowledge the electric currents in their published papers, conventional theorists persist in seeing them as “magnetic collision” effects in plasma rather than the fundamental cause of auroral phenomena....................................................​..............cont.

SIDC (Solar Influences Data Analysis Center) latest 3-day forecast states "imagery suggest this CME will hit the Earth, probably on October 30th." I wonder if they follow this thread? I don't think so or they would know it was caused by a filament eruption and not a C-flare.
[link to sidc.oma.be]

Inbound CME photos from STEREO Ahead:

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

The other large filament in the northeast (near 1332) has lifted off between 10-12:00 UTC. It may be the trigger for the latest Earthside CME.
Now you see it:
[link to halpha.nso.edu]
Now you don't:
[link to halpha.nso.edu]

Today's CME from STEREO A in 1-hr. increments (approx. @ 10 o'clock position):

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

question-
what size does the flare have to be to effect Earth?
not s suntard (no disrespect)
just wondering

[link to www.thunderbolts.info]

wow thanks aether
i had not caught that

here is an interesting image that is one STEREO A today
[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

almost looks like a comet was flying very close to the STEREO A satellite and was in just the right place, at the right time to get it's picture taken

we now have a flare in progress
about time the sun woke up some haha
[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]