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Hey, NiN...just wanted to pop in quick to say welcome back (I know I'm a little late with that!) before you all get busy again. Thanks everyone for keeping us informed. I'm pretty sure I'm never going to understand all of this, but I'm really glad you guys do! AND...you explain it for people like me! Hope you're doing better.

If this was a proton event, we would see this in the soho image by now?

edited to say: don't know if I posed that question correctly but I'm sure you know what I mean.

Last Edited by TheOracle on 01/26/2012 01:03 AM

Is this the one? I think it was a couple of hours before the snow-effect kicked in. Heck, the snow just stopped fading out today.

:cme1/26:

[link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov]

Last Edited by Hugh M Eye on 01/26/2012 01:12 AM

yes, thats the one i linked :)
i have some others on the blog
[link to mysolaralerts.blogspot.com]

im checking into any possible proton even
its just me tonight guys
tom and iwtb are offline
so bare with me
im running through data as fast as i can to see whats up :)

hey! thanks :) i am doing a bit better now
if were ever talking about something you dont get, but want to understand, just give a haller
we will always do our best to answer what we can ^^

Take your time...we can be patient :)

not just yet, but soon
im looking
and yes :) i get what you mean ^^

Thanks for the halpa.nso.edu link Hugh, didn't know that that one existed, bookmarked now..

Last Edited by JustOneGuy on 01/26/2012 01:43 AM

STEREO Ahead has a new image. I think this one is too north directed to be a threat to Earth, but it's quite large so we may see some geo-effects. Too soon to tell. It's a real beauty!

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

My pleasure, J O G! I like the Earth-based GONG telescopes for watching filaments. Usually at least one of their scopes is updating every 1-5 minutes, so it's where I like to start to see what's going on. The space-based imagers are fantastic but take awhile to downlink the data.

Here's the link for the network:

[link to halpha.nso.edu]

Have to hit the hay...have to get up in 6 hours.

NiN - Hugh, thanks for all your hard work.

I'll check to see what other surprises the sun sent us in the morning.

hummmm
i see a possible 2nd cme occuring right now
same region
ill be back

SDO close-up (sorry it's B&W) of the first wave from 00:30 to 00:50.

[link to sdowww.lmsal.com]

And here's a color movie of the second wave at 01:35 to 01:48.

[link to sdowww.lmsal.com]

The third wave movie isn't ready yet.

whats going on here?

[link to halpha.nso.edu]


is this normal to see something like this?

[link to halpha.nso.edu]

thanks for adding those Hugh
im running through data, see no signs of a proton storm
the CME looks to be a bit to far Northwest to be geoeffective
but looking at some recent images, i might retract that in the morning
a bit to hard to tell just yet
we just might get a glancing blow
ill update in the morning as to what i find
its almost 3am here and im still getting over the flu
so im off for the night
:)

hmmm good question
im not familiar enough with that site to say
does not look right though :/

Last Edited by NiNzrez on 01/26/2012 02:44 AM

Some beautiful images of the magnetic loops all lit up from that third wave of flaring. I think this is causing the LDE shape to the X-ray flux. Those are damn big loops! They may re-fire again too.

SDO pics from 06:15 utc:

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

Vesica piscis [link to halpha.nso.edu]

displaying 11:11
2012/01/26 05:20:34 - [link to halpha.nso.edu]
2012/01/26 05:24 - [link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov]

Hi, gogo! That scope is not online right now, only the one(s) with the green numbers are active. I think that last shot was taken as the sun went out of view or the dome was in the way. The GONG scopes are scattered around the globe so we can have 24-hour coverage of the sun, weather permitting.

:flare1/26:

alrighty then lol
Arizona (S)
2012-01-24 21:38:14
check this out!!!!--> [link to halpha.nso.edu]


[link to halpha.nso.edu]


and the movie what the hell?

its a joke right?

[link to halpha.nso.edu]

Third LDE wave movie (SDO close-up 3-wave composite) from 04:00 to 06:00 utc looks remarkably similar to the M8 flare.:

[link to sdowww.lmsal.com]

Hahaahaha, thanks, I've never seen that before. Sun-tard humor? There weren't any Arizona scopes there before right now. I swear! Must be some astro-geek hackers at work. I guess we;ll know when the sun rises in Arizona won't we.

Check out the loops in the AIA 094 wavelength.

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

SOHO Cor 3 image of big CME:

[link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov]

It's much more fun and dazzling in the SOHO Moviemaker--try the C2 & C3:

[link to sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov]

I have a question:

This is primarily directed to the lifer's/moderators here...
Hugh, Nin, Look'n, IWTB, etc.

What here would be considered a post of excess length?

The LDE thing has come to fascinate me so much that I downloaded the archive of X-ray plots from NOAA and have prepared two listings: One list all X-class events through the period and notes all LDE's evidently of duration greater than 9+ hrs. The second list is thematically identical to the first but includes the M-class of flares as well. The motivation for this exercise in monomania comes from having assembled the plots into a slideshow and having it as a background on the desktop running over and over. After having watched this more times than I'd care to count I'd swear that there's a pattern present relative to the onset and duration of just the category of LDE's themselves, it keeps prodding at my subconscious mind though I can't quite put my finger on it yet. Perhaps those here might stumble over what I can't quite arrive at...several dozen heads are exponentially better than one I'm sure.

To be sure, if this has already been posted here in compact form previously or exists elsewhere on the web I'd dismiss the notion of a posting out of hand, also if this wouldn't be of significant interest to those hereabouts. The first list is relatively compact at less than 200 lines (about)...the second is much longer obviously.

OOPS,

Accidentally bumped the mouse while compiling the post above, "I have a question..." unknowingly got logged off of GLP and when resumed was an "anonymous coward". Incidentally, the list mentioned above extends from mid 96 to date.

Last Edited by JustOneGuy on 01/26/2012 04:21 AM

New spot just appearing in the NE on the 9:00 SDO/HMI color magnetogram.

some c flares too... [link to www.n3kl.org]

i recordet the sun 2 minutes ago with my cam.

Seems to be an very active region in the middle of the sun :9

can post link to video u you liked

Sharing this thread here, have y'all seen this? Very interesting!

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