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

Hi, IWTB76! I'm not sure what's going on with region 1410 right now. It's flaring seems to be interacting with a large prominence on the limb.

SDO recent image:

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

Latest SOHO Cor 2 image:

[link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov]

Mauna Loa h-alpha loop:

[link to halpha.nso.edu]

There may be a large CME in the making, judging from the long duration.

yep, nice




Check out also Stereo Ahead EUVI:
[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

WOW>It looks like one of the biggest C-flares I've seen. I sense a big beauty of a CME coming. Check out these SDO images.

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

:giantC:

Really cool looking!

:bigCflare:

Surprisingly, no CME detected from that long-duration flare from 1410. Must have been an intense coronal rain-storm, though. Two SDO close-up movies in differing wavelengths shows 1410 at its most colorful and photogenic.

[link to sdowww.lmsal.com]

[link to sdowww.lmsal.com]

It seems we won't have spotless sun for at least a couple of more days. A new, un-numbered active region (1415?) has quickly emerged approx. 30 degrees from the western limb producing more than one C-flare including a C2.6. seen in this H-alpha image.

[link to halpha.nso.edu]

Last Edited by Hugh M Eye on 02/08/2012 01:15 AM

New active region in the northwest seems to be growing larger. I count at least five small spots spread over a large plage area. Also, two smaller new active regions have appeared in the southeast. NOAA taking their good 'ol time in providing official numbers for these spots.

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

ACE solar wind data is corrupted and/or interrupted today.

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

[link to www2.nict.go.jp]

as posted on the 6th, ACE is not working properly this week and readings are not accurate. Here is why
[link to mysolaralerts.blogspot.com]
from the report
"Models that depend on the ACE solar wind data will also be affected (e.g. the Wing Kp Geomagnetic model). These problems are temporary, but are expected to continue for the next 4 or more days.

Last Edited by NiNzrez on 02/08/2012 03:13 PM

Monring crew...

This new sunspot is growing pretty good...flux chart is just starting to show signs of life..if it continues growing I would say things may get interesting before long..

Brains and beauty,...

Well, I do declare NIN.

Hope everyone one is well. Tom, IWTB,...Hugh...Look'n,...
Can't name you all,... you understand??

I mean everyone!!


Z

Last Edited by zacksavage on 02/09/2012 02:00 PM

Thought this may be of interest on this thread due to the topics of discussion held here on occassion...

Thread: 14-Year Weather Radar Loop....wow, very interesting past 2007

Dhoomer

Hi all

getting better and hope all others here are fine too(even you z, hehe)

Sun-Watching Spacecraft Sees 40,000 Solar Flares in 10 Years


RHESSI, or the Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, hit its 10-year orbital milestone on Sunday (Feb. 5), NASA officials said. The observatory has been tracking solar flares to help astronomers better understand how the sun ejects huge amounts of particles and energy so efficiently...

ReadMore:
[link to www.space.com]



Check out whose on the cover of IEEE Spectrum 2.12! The story is on solar storms affecting the power grid. Space weather is becoming more interesting as we approach the maximum of Solar Cycle 24:
[link to spectrum.ieee.org]

We seem to have a sizable CME eruption near the northeast limb. I'll have to backtrack to locate the cause...stay tuned.

STEREO A image:

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

STEREO B:

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

SOHO Cor 2:

[link to sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov]

:cme2/09:

A large and violent eruption most likely from a large filament near the eastern limb. On some of the SDO composite movies a huge shockwave or solar-tsunami can be seen rolling almost 60 degrees in from the limb. I can't rule out the possibility of a major flare from somewhere beyond the limb, but a giant filament can be seen flying off in some images.

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

Mauna Loa H-alpha movie loop:

[link to halpha.nso.edu]

Latest STEREO B image:

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

If you go to the SDO movie-maker start the time about 20:00 for 2/09. Try the second of the three composite images and you'll see the tsunami-wave effect (a still image doesn't do it justice).

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

60 degrees as in 60 degrees west longitude?

WOW. Beautiful SDO close-up movies of fantastic filament eruption

[link to sdowww.lmsal.com]

[link to sdowww.lmsal.com]

Unfortunately the movie ends before the shock-waves can be seen. Probably the waves were caused by copious amounts of plasma raining back to the surface.
:erupt2/09:

I meant ripples seen nearly 60 degrees from the point of eruption...near 30 degrees east longitude.

Good Morning

we have a CME seen coming from the area just to the west of southern sunspot region 1416
[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

Good morning everyone

This is strange. Don't believe I've ever seen a sun glare warning on a traffic report before.

Thread: THE SUN HAS NEVER BEEN THIS LUMINOUS - "Sun Glare Warning" NJ Traffic Report

Good catch, NIN. I can't seem to find any flare or filaments in that region responsible for the eruption. Perhaps it's one of those "stealth" CMEs. Sometimes vacant or empty filament channels erupt for reasons no one quite understands yet.

"The problem is that whatever is causing these stealth events is beyond what we can see with telescopes we have now," said Alexei Pevtsov of the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot, NM.

[link to www.nso.edu]

Earlier there was another giant filament eruption on the far northwest limb.

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

That event was followed by a powerful flare from beyond the west limb at region 1410. GOES X-ray flux recorded it as a C1.1, but it has all the earmarks of at least an M-flare.

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

anyone see the object incoming on lasco3 at the 8oclock position

I think that's a reflection of Venus off the armature that holds the occulting disk. It's not tracking with the background stars, so I ruled out a supernova. We'll know for sure if it moves away from the occulter arm.

[link to www.theplanetstoday.com]

[link to secchi.nrl.navy.mil]

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

Strangely, Mercury has appeared for one frame in the C3 images and disappeared again. Most likely the reflection and blooming pixels are from Mercury, not Venus. The apparition and disappearance of Mercury is probably due to SOHO's orbit going retrograde...just a guess.

[link to lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil]

Previously mentioned prominence eruption.
:prom2/10:

Beyond-the-limb flare from 1410.
:limbflare:

SDO close-up composite movie of beyond-the-limb flare from region 1410:

[link to sdowww.lmsal.com]

Significant earthquake precursor signal detected on 02/10/12 at 1900utc/1400est. Possible 6+.

Radio Direction Finder has signal coming in East of France from somewhere out in the Northern, Mid to Southern portions of the Pacific plate to Alaska, Canada and Chile.


All who live anywhere in the vicinity of this line trajectory should be wary next 5 hours. Have escape plan ready and seek open terrain in the event of felt tremor. Secure most of your heavy objects and belongings around your home.


Namaste,

Hopefully I am wrong. Or it hits an unpopulated area.
Japan is also a likely target. Be wary.

CME
[link to stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov]