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Latest SDO AIA 304


We can see 1389 in earth facing position

Also the recurrent trans equatorial coronal hole (CH491) is close to it.

A prominence above is worth to watch...




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Cool man. I'm following

Thank you IWTB76! I have always been more of a watcher on this thread than a contributor for a while now. I truly appreciate and enjoy all the work you, Ninz and the others do here. I look forward to hearing more from all of you on the new blog. :-) Of course if I can ever contribute anything in the future I won't hesitate. Thanks again!

Large gap in SOHO data, however here's C3 image of CME-(most likely NOT earth directed).

[link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov]

You see that also in latest Stereo Behind Movie:
[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

CloseUp filament; near to the new region
[link to helioviewer.org]

SunspotToday
[link to i1220.photobucket.com]

LOVE IT! Following and happy you guys did this.

Haha, big thx all



Happy Perihelion!

Tomorrow (January 4) at 8 pm EST the Earth will be at perihelion. This is the point in our orbit around the Sun that is closest to the Sun. Why do we care?



Here is a comparison of HMI Quick-Look continuum images from January and July:

[link to 1.bp.blogspot.com]


The two horizontal lines show how high the Sun appears today. When those lines are extended to the left, the July image is a little over 3% smaller. When we designed the instruments on SDO we had to make sure the largest appearance of the Sun would fit on the CCDs.

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

Great!! Have saved and will monitor y'all there too!

GoodMorning all,


[link to i1220.photobucket.com]

the new region 1392 was numbered overnight and is now a small BXO type group at 10 millionths.

Our largest Region 1389 on the visible solar disc so far, reduced in size and magnetic complexity.

[link to i1220.photobucket.com]


Region 1391 on the east limb developed several small spots behind the the larger main leading spot.
This could be very interesting the next days.

Solar activity was quiet so far, no C Class flare took place yesterday but this morning a minute ago a small C 1.5 took place:


[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]


Edit:

Right after the flare there was some nice activity around the coronal hole...will upload some images

Okay,

Flare of class C1.5 1392 08:57:00 09:02:00 09:05:00
[link to www.tesis.lebedev.ru]


:sdocompjan4:


See also the larger Images:

1)
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2)
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3)
[link to i1220.photobucket.com]

4)
[link to i1220.photobucket.com]

This triggerd a filament eruption

We have another small C Flare

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

a C 1.3

LMSAL shows it from Region 1389...but lmsal is wrong again


If we check latest SDO its from region 1386
[link to helioviewer.org]

You see also some ejection after the flare took place

SIDC - RWC BELGIUM 04 Jan 2012, 1129UT

The Sun has produced a C1.5 flare on January 4, peaking at 09:02 UT, which was accompanied by a filament eruption with center about 20N 20W. A C1.3 flare was also observed by GOES peaking at 11:06 UT on January 4. Solar activity is expected to remain at C flare level, with a slight chance for an M flare. On January 4, the solar wind speed and IMF measured by ACE have returned to about 350 km/s and 5 nT, respectively. Geomagnetic conditions were quiet and will likely remain quiet before the second part of January 6. Around that time, active conditions are possible with a chance for a minor storm due to the expected effects of a high speed wind stream associated with an equatorial coronal hole.

[link to sidc.oma.be]

!

:D

^^


Testing for the Venus Transit
[link to www.twitvid.com]



A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually measured in hours (the transit of 2004 lasted six hours). A transit is similar to a solar eclipse by the Moon. While the diameter of Venus is almost four times that of the Moon, Venus appears smaller, and travels more slowly across the face of the Sun, because it is much farther away from Earth. Observations of transits of Venus helped scientists use the principle of parallax to calculate the distance between the Sun and the Earth.


Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena. They occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years. The periodicity is a reflection of the fact that the orbital periods of Earth and Venus are close to 8:13 and 243:395 resonances.

Before 2004, the last pair of transits were in December 1874 and December 1882. The first of a pair of transits of Venus in the beginning of the 21st century took place on 8 June 2004 and the next will be on 6 June 2012. After 2012, subsequent transits of Venus will be in December 2117 and December 2125.

A transit of Venus can be safely observed by taking the same precautions used when observing the partial phases of a solar eclipse. Staring at the brilliant disk of the Sun (the photosphere) with the unprotected eye can quickly cause serious and often permanent eye damage.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

GoodMorning all,


finally we have some pretty action


Today we had another 2 C Flares but the latest one has some interest Event inbound


First C Flare from Region 1390

Flare of class C1.9 1390 07:01:00 07:22:00 07:43:00


the latest seems located Region 1392 near to the coronal hole


this mid duration flare [link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]


caused a large filament eruption close to this spot


:eruptionregion13:



See latest SDO AIA 304!!!
[link to i1220.photobucket.com]


as expected we have a CME

:lateststereobehi:


More soon

or visit:
[link to solarwatchninzrez.blogspot.com]

oh and SIDC Belgium now reports:


SIDC - RWC BELGIUM 05 Jan 2012, 0936UT

NOAA region 11390 released a C1.9 flare on January 5, peaking at 07:22 UT. It was accompanied by a Type II radio burst with an estimated shock velocity of 695 km/s. At the time of writing this ursigram (12:30 UT), a flare from NOAA region 11392 is ongoing, has reached C2.1 and is still rising. Solar activity is expected to remain at C flare level. During the last 24 hours, ACE solar wind speed has been steadily decreasing from about 350 km/s to about 300 km/s, while the IMF is stable around 5 nT. Geomagnetic conditions were quiet and will likely remain quiet before the second part of January 6. From that time on, active conditions are possible with a chance for a minor storm due to the expected effects of a high speed wind stream associated with an equatorial coronal hole.
[link to sidc.oma.be]

ok uploaded a helioviewer vid:



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Watch California today or tomorrow...alot of small EQ`s being listed...way past due

[link to quakes.globalincidentmap.com]

2.9 in alabama???? what`s up with that



[link to quakes.globalincidentmap.com]

Last Edited by <<LOOK`n thru YOU>> on 01/05/2012 11:37 AM

Magnetosphere starting to glow a little..

[link to www2.nict.go.jp]

yo IWTB

likey blog. ty :)

was flicking back and forth between stereo A & B and lasco, tryin' to visualize the whole sphere.... tuff.... and had a thought.

what if you could do a 3D image/vid composite of all three?

like in model space, can you set up two perpendicular planes and 'paint' on them? Stereo a & b on one plane (mirrored, obviously) and lasco on the perpendicular plane.

then view in isometric and we could better vizualize the whole, no? so like, i could do a tracing of a still from each view (all at the same 'moment' obviously) and create .dxf's of the tracing. then in solid works i could create the plains and insert the tracings on too the proper planes(taking care to have a center datum, again obviously) and, Bob's ur uncle : sorta #D sun view...

only thats way too laborious and in the end looses all the detail.

could u do that with the vids? i think u'd have to play with transparency too.


possible?

hehe,

thats a really nice idea..damn, have to think about this

i will look forward for it!

big thx

SolarWatch--2FLARE'S 2EVENT'S--01/05/12




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Excellent job.

Wonderful Video...you are quite the artist brother!

big thx!!

good night

GoodMorning all^^,


:SunspotsJanuary6:


New Region 1393 (circled) next to 1392 gets numbered. It emerged in the northeast quadrant on January 4 and got an SWPC number the next day

Region 1388 and 89 was quiet and stable. Region 1391 was quiet too. Region 1390 lost some trailing spots but the leading penumbra increased.
1392 developed again as new flux emerged (we remember the flare yesterday).




Solar activity is near to low so far. We had one C Flare


Flare of class C1.4 1389 06:04:00 06:08:00 06:11:00
[link to www.tesis.lebedev.ru]




We remember the large filament eruption to the north of region 1392 was recorded as a long duration C2.1 Class event peaking at 12:38 UTC.

So the main core of the associated CME will not reach Earth but STEREO imagery and also ISWA CYGNET STREAMER shows us that the outer edge of the CME could hit us:

[link to iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080]


The ISWA CME Arrival Time Prediction shows up an alert:

:ISWAalertJanuary:

[link to iswa.ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov:8080]
(click to the left on: CME Arrival Time Prediction)



[link to solarwatchninzrez.blogspot.com]


Edit


RWC BELGIUM 06 Jan 2012, 1218UT

The Sun has produced two C flares in the last 24 hours. A C1.4 flare was released by NOAA AR 11389, peaking at 06:08 UT, January 6. A C2.2 flare peaked at 11:25 UT on January 6. More C flares are likely to occur within the next 24 hours. A CME associated with the C2.1 flare and filament eruption of 12:38 UT on January 5 was first observed by COR2 B on 12:40 UT. Due to data gaps, only a few images were available on COR2 A and none on LASCO C2 and C3. This CME is not directed towards Earth, but might deliver a glancing blow on January 9. An expected Coronal Hole high speed stream has arrived at L1. ACE solar wind velocity has gradually increased from about 350 km/s towards a plateau of about 450 km/s, while density and temperature peaked. The IMF has remained moderate at about 10 nT. Geomagnetic conditions have been quiet within the last 24 hours, and are expected to be predominantly at active levels in the second half of January 6 and the first half of January 7. Quiet conditions are likely in the second half of January 7 and on January 8.
[link to sidc.oma.be]




Super close up Region 1391

NOBODY in the amateur astro world does Sun in H-Alpha better than this :
[link to www.astroimagem.com]


Region 1389 and 88
[link to www.astroimagem.com]

We have a CME seen on Stereo Images:

:CMEjanuary62012:

This CME is not earth facing




however:

Caused by a large eruption on the farside, seen on latest

Stereo Behind EUVI 195

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

things getting bumpy on the west coast..North and south of it too...She is getting ready to shift

Last Edited by <<LOOK`n thru YOU>> on 01/06/2012 02:21 PM

Hi lookn

mhh, then come over here..i will drive tomorrow to our supervolcano: lake laach

will record a bit and maybe i comment it like jackass style:

" this is iwanttobelieve76 and today i will swim in a supervolcano...."





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We had another 2 small c flares

Flare of class C2.2 1392 11:14:00 11:25:00 11:35:00

and the latest one

a c 1.4
[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]