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

excelent job!
would you mind if i used this and added this info to the ongoing flare list we have here on glp as well as on the blog?

to be honest i have no gone through posts for a few pages now
just made a quick glance
im going to try setting aside some time today to do just that

Not at all,

Whats more intriguing though (and problematic as well) is the file I generated on this, from which the synopsis was extracted. If you refer back to a previous post of mine a few days ago I asked at that point if there were anyplace at GLP (or elsewhere) where LARGE reference data sets can be posted for all to see/use? The abstacted events from the GOES X-Data from mid-96 to Date (limited to M, X-class alone) constitute a file over 3400 lines long...simply not appropriate for a post here...any suggestions for someone barely able to navigate through the vagaries of GLP, blogs and web sites - unlike you lifer's here? Oops...The file mentioned explicitly notes all LDE's of +9 hr duration and for various reasons I believe that THIS is the important aspect here...the reason in fact for me to root through all those plots in the first place.
..hhHHELP!!

Last Edited by JustOneGuy on 02/06/2012 04:12 PM

Vielen Danke Frau/lein Nin.......

Hello, NIN! Hope your 100% soon.

SDO movie of M-flare:

[link to sdowww.lmsal.com]

Also SDO movie of yesterday's filament eruption....nice.

[link to sdowww.lmsal.com]

Gotta go for a bit Y'all. Be back later.

:M1410:

SDO composite image:

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

:

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]
rising

Thanks for the post. I was looking for this info!

Happy To Oblige, OG.
Waiting For NIN To Get Back To Me About Finding A Home For The Verbose Listing I Generated From The GOES X-Ray Records...Much More Is Included Therein, Including The Dates For All The Listed Events, All LDE's (>=9 hrs) And A Scale - Of Sorts - Which "Tries" To Give A Reader A Feel For The Lapses Between Events, The Intervals As It Were. Looking Forward To Getting It Posted Soon.

Oh Farb-Nut! Oops, Fell Into Capping Each Word...Bad Habit Left Over From Military Life...Much Sorry, Not To Be Repeated Hereafter. Already Finished With Posting Before I Noticed.

its going up

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

Morning folks...are we going to have a day or two without a sunspot??? Kind of looking that way...Been a long time since we haven`t had one to watch...

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

nice little spike there

The sun looks like a big white full moon this morning in sw Florida. Very odd.

good morning

Mornin Shenue

unbelievable in 2-3 hours the sun will be completely void of sunspots!! Does anybody know if this has happened in last SC before (during) max?

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

Last Edited by Nacht im Walde on 02/07/2012 09:53 AM

Morning all,

SIDC - RWC BELGIUM Tue Feb 7 2012, 1333 UT

NOAA AR 1410 increased yesterday in size, sunspot number and magnetic complexity (beta gamma now) and produced an M1.0 flare at 20:00 UT on February 6, together with several C-class flares. More C-class flares can be expected (and possible M-class ones) as this AR rotates over the west limb. Geomagnetic conditions have been quiet to unsettled, due to a slight increase in solar wind speed to 450km/s with somewhat extended periods of Bz around -5nT. On February 9, the arrival of a fast speed stream from a small coronal hole is expected at the Earth, with possible active geomagnetic conditions.
[link to sidc.oma.be]



Nice image from Lasco C3

Mercury at superior conjunction

:febr6mercury2012:
Enlarge:
[link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov]

Notice the diagonal beam of light from Mercury? That's a reflection off the occulter arm(enlarge!)



and maybe have a look:
Thread: Tesla's Back? Huge electrical flash caught on camera

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

2 k-6 bars... with 0 sunspots earth facing?

[link to www.solarham.com]

Got another spike climbing...C7

Last Edited by <<LOOK`n thru YOU>> on 02/07/2012 12:40 PM

Spotless Days
Current Stretch: 0 days
2012 total: 0 days (0%)
2011 total: 2 days (<1%)
2010 total: 51 days (14%)
2009 total: 260 days (71%)
Since 2004: 821 days
Typical Solar Min: 486 days
Updated 06 Feb 2012

[link to spaceweather.com]

Last Edited by <<LOOK`n thru YOU>> on 02/07/2012 12:43 PM

:sunartfeb2012:

New Solar Art Exhibit Opening

The new Sun as Art exhibit offers artistic interpretations of the Sun (with captions) based on solar images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). This 20-piece show opens on Feb. 9. 2012 at the Maryland Science Center for three months to start its nationwide tour. The solar images were made possible by advances in imaging technology and sophisticated spacecraft engineering. Each of the framed and matted pieces is an impressive 36” x 30”...
[link to plus.google.com]

Beautiful...hope it comes to my town!
Glad you are feeling better IWTB!

big thx mama!


Region 1410 approaches the north-west limb and is still producing C class solar flares, the latest was a C6 peaking at 1734 UTC

:c6flarereg1410sa:
Image shows you the latest C6 Flare Region 1410



2012/02/07 01:15:00 01:30:00 01:23:00 C3.5 N19W62 ( 1410 )
2012/02/07 02:32:00 02:42:00 02:37:00 B4.0 N16W73 ( 1410 )
2012/02/07 04:17:00 04:24:00 04:24:00 C1.7 N19W63 ( 1410 )
2012/02/07 10:34:00 10:42:00 10:39:00 B8.0 N17W72 ( 1410 )
2012/02/07 10:56:00 11:11:00 11:03:00 C5.1 N20W66 ( 1410 )
2012/02/07 12:33:00 12:52:00 12:38:00 B5.2 N18W68 ( 1410 )
2012/02/07 16:11:00 17:42:00 17:31:00 C6.8 N20W70 ( 1410 )
[link to www.lmsal.com]


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:planetpinballfeb:
Artist's conception of a binary star sunset as seen from the exoplanet Kepler-16b. For some planets, such views may be only temporary. Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/Kepler Mission


Many of us remember playing pinball at the local arcade while growing up; it turns out that some stars like it as well. Binary stars can play tug-of-war with an unfortunate planet, flinging it into a wide orbit that allows it to be captured by first one star and then the other, in effect “bouncing” it between them before it is eventually flung out into deep space.

The new paper, by Nick Moeckel and Dimitri Veras of the University of Cambridge, will be published in a future issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society...

More:
[link to www.universetoday.com]

Some rly cool computer visualization of the complex magnetic field that creates Earth's magnetosphere




Our Planet, Tangled in Magnetic Spaghetti


:sphagettimagnetf:
Enlarge:
[link to www.ornl.gov]

OK, so it's not real spaghetti -- it's a computer visualization of the complex magnetic field that creates Earth's magnetosphere -- but it sure looks tangled.

Using the awesome power of a Cray XT5 Jaguar supercomputer, a team of space physicists are unlocking some of the biggest mysteries surrounding how the sun's magnetic field interacts with our planet's magnetosphere. They basically want to understand what happens when global magnetic fields become tangled to the extreme.

ReadMore:
[link to news.discovery.com]


Here is a more complex Article:
[link to www.ornl.gov]

Wow. Nice.....magnetic dreadlocks, lol. I hope they get a realtime simulation like this to monitor the geomagnetic storms.

Some geomagnetic disturbance right now K=4 Unsettled.

Space Weather Message Code: WARK04
Serial Number: 1860
Issue Time: 2012 Feb 07 2033 UTC

WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 4 expected
Valid From: 2012 Feb 07 2040 UTC
Valid To: 2012 Feb 08 0600 UTC
Warning Condition: Onset
Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 65 degrees
Geomagnetic Latitude. Weak power grid fluctuations can occur. Aurora
may be visible at high latitudes such as Canada and Alaska.

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

[link to www2.nict.go.jp]

Tromso, Norway K index at 6=storm.

[link to flux.phys.uit.no]

GOES Electron flux disturbed.

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

Just noticed a long, slow rise in the X-Ray flux. C7.2 maybe an LDE flare/eruption.

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

Oh yeah nice Hugh!





Magnetometer FaroeIslands:
[link to www.fra.fo]



Auroral forecast

The Display: Shows the intensity and location of the aurora as expected for the time shown at the bottom of the map. This forecast is based on current solar wind conditions and the average time for the solar wind to propagate from the ACE satellite at L1 to Earth...:
[link to helios.swpc.noaa.gov]


Aurora Borealis Forecast for Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Latest Forecast = in 39 minutes, the Aurora will be Active.
[link to www.softservenews.com]

AuroraAlerts via twitter:

“Aurora_Alerts” -- to do this, navigate to [link to twitter.com]