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

Hello Dettro(and all)

The X-rays looks pretty beastial,that large Flare was from just beyond the North-East limb [link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov] [link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov] so chances are that it was a M Flare.

Quite tasty [link to www.swpc.noaa.gov] .

M3.9 from 1744 region..

It looks that it is from 1744

:eve09:

[link to lasp.colorado.edu]

M flare...

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

I think there's something big behind the western limb...
[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

M3.9 from 1744 region..

I'm pretty sure this is from "Beyond the East Limb" again, same as the C9. Solarsoft is wrong again, AR1744 is on the Near (Earth) side. This came from former 1726 (I think) which is announcing it's return. How many times have we seen this large M-flare precisely before coming over? A similar one last week...very strange.

Joint USAF/NOAA Solar Region Summary
SRS Number 130 Issued at 0030Z on 10 May 2013
Report compiled from data received at SWO on 09 May
I. Regions with Sunspots. Locations Valid at 09/2400Z
Nmbr Location Lo Area Z LL NN Mag Type
1732 S17W90 157 0080 Dso 06 03 Beta
1734 S18W64 131 0400 Hkx 10 13 Alpha
1736 S08W78 145 0240 Dai 07 12 Beta-Gamma
1738 N15W21 088 0050 Cai 10 08 Beta
1739 N12W09 078 0060 Dao 09 08 Beta
1741 S20E19 048 0005 Axx 01 01 Alpha
1742 N30E49 017 0050 Dai 07 12 Beta
1743 N24E55 011 0030 Hrx 05 02 Alpha
1744 N05E61 004 0030 Dao 05 05 Beta

How did they confuse the coordinates N10/E89 with N05/E61??? Hey, Lockheed, are ya hiring any real Suntards soon? LOL.

Latest HMI Magnetogram:
[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

Latest HMI Intensitygram:
[link to jsoc.stanford.edu]

I think there's something big behind the western limb...
[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

Hi sol crew, I went out this morning to capture the annular eclipse.
I used three cameras one capturing in HD @ 1920x1080p, I hope to post the video soon , I need to edit and compress.
Anyhow I will leave you with a little sample here is a pick of the sun with a partcial eclipse,
due to me being so far south in Australia.

[link to i1245.photobucket.com]

Erm,is this [link to halpha.nso.edu] the Moon entering Frame on the Left?

Hope so,LoL.

Hi sol crew, I went out this morning to capture the annular eclipse.
I used three cameras one capturing in HD @ 1920x1080p, I hope to post the video soon , I need to edit and compress.
Anyhow I will leave you with a little sample here is a pick of the sun with a partcial eclipse,
due to me being so far south in Australia.

[link to i1245.photobucket.com]

wow that's great, sounds! I watched a little of the annular eclipse last Spring in the Southwest. You should send some of your pics/video to Spaceweather.com. I bet they would be interested. Good luck with all your observations!

Here's another pic.

[link to i1245.photobucket.com]

Enjoy.

Here's another pic.

[link to i1245.photobucket.com]

Enjoy.

Thanks for posting this, Isis One , that link has some very interesting info there including this morsel -

Past events

Evidence from daughter products of short-lived radioactive isotopes shows that a nearby supernova helped determine the composition of the Solar System 4.5 billion years ago, and may even have triggered the formation of this system. Supernova production of heavy elements over astronomic periods of time ultimately made the chemistry of life on Earth possible.
In 1996, astronomers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign theorized that traces of past supernovae might be detectable on Earth in the form of metal isotope signatures in rock strata. Subsequently, iron-60 enrichment has been reported in deep-sea rock of the Pacific Ocean by researchers from the Technical University of Munich. 23 atoms of this iron isotope were found in the top 2 cm of crust, and these date from the last 13 million years or so. It is estimated that the supernova must have occurred in the last 5 million years or else it would have had to have happened very close to the solar system to account for so much iron-60 still being here. A supernova occurring so close would have probably caused a mass extinction, which didn't happen in that time frame. The quantity of iron seems to indicate that the supernova was less than 30 parsecs away. On the other hand, the authors estimate the frequency of supernovae at a distance less than D (for reasonably small D) as around (D/10 pc)3 per Ga, which gives a probability of only around 5% for a supernova within 30 pc in the last 5 million years. They point out that the probability may be higher because we are entering the Orion arm of the Milky Way.
Adrian L. Melott et al. estimated that gamma ray bursts from "dangerously close" supernova explosions occur two or more times per billion years, and this has been proposed as the cause of the end Ordovician extinction, which resulted in the death of nearly 60% of the oceanic life on Earth.

There's been a HUMONGOUS filament eruption and giant CME (farside west). To me it looks to be about 30% the length of the sun's diameter. That's pretty big! No SOHO images yet, but I guarantee they'll be astounding. Check out the CME it produced on the STEREO coronagraph movies-

STEREO Ahead:
[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

STEREO Behind:
[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

The eruption can be seen in the southern hemisphere on the Ahead EUVI movie:

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

This is not Earth-directed and most likely will have no geoeffective consequences. Still awaiting SOHO data/images.

Here's another pic.

[link to i1245.photobucket.com]

Enjoy.

There's been a HUMONGOUS filament eruption and giant CME (farside west). To me it looks to be about 30% the length of the sun's diameter. That's pretty big! No SOHO images yet, but I guarantee they'll be astounding. Check out the CME it produced on the STEREO coronagraph movies-

STEREO Ahead:
[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

STEREO Behind:
[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

The eruption can be seen in the southern hemisphere on the Ahead EUVI movie:

[link to stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

This is not Earth-directed and most likely will have no geoeffective consequences. Still awaiting SOHO data/images.

Stairway to M flare! Awesome :D
[link to www.solarham.net]