Sunspot 1520 Kicking one out right now..X -flare and still rising..LDE..X1.4...

it was meant for the one above you sorry

X1.4-Class Solar Flare Causes Radio Outages
The sixth X-Class flare so far this year

By Jason Koebler
July 12, 2012 RSS Feed Print
An X1.4 class flare erupted from the center of the sun, peaking on July 12, 2012 at 12:52 PM EDT. It erupted from Active Region 1520 which rotated into view on July 6.

An X1.4 class flare erupted from the center of the sun, peaking on July 12, 2012 at 12:52 PM EDT. It erupted from Active Region 1520 which rotated into view on July 6.

A giant sunspot released the sun's sixth massive solar flare of the year Thursday, and early indications are that it may have been powerful enough to black out NOAA radio, according to a NASA scientist.

It was the sixth X-class flare this year, and Phillip Chamberlain, a scientist with NASA's solar dynamics observatory, says they are likely to continue through the beginning of 2014 as the sun enters the most active period of its eight-year solar cycle.

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Thursday's flare has already caused what NOAA classifies as an R3 radio blackout, meaning GPS satellite signals "degraded for about an hour" and there was a "wide area blackout of high frequency radio communication" on Earth.

According to Chamberlain, the region from which the flare erupted was on the part of the sun facing Earth, so it could potentially cause temporary power outages and further communication systems disruptions. He said the observatory would know more within a few hours if Earth is likely to be impacted.

On July 6, a similarly sized flare caused no significant problems on Earth. Thursday's flare, classified as an X1.4, was much smaller than the X5.4 flare that erupted on March 7 and caused temporary outages of military satellites.

Jason Koebler is a science and technology reporter for U.S. News & World Report. You can follow him on Twitter or reach him at [email protected]
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You are quite rude.

you can probably still smell the panic sex residue in here...

x28 wow. lol. that wasnt earth directed though was it?

forgiven

Solar flares and the body electric......


On Wednesday morning, March 6, 2002, most people on the planet felt reasonably well. The next day, many of us felt as though something had happened to us, but we didn’t know exactly what. From across the United States and Canada many were complaining of headaches, sinus problems, physical and emotional hypersensitivity, sleeplessness, heart arrhythmias, bloating, nose bleeds, itchy eyes, breathing difficulties, dizziness, disorientation, allergic reactions and so on.

if that 28+ had hit earth directly i doubt shutting down the sats would have helped.

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

Look at this puppy and its MOVING fast, it usually takes quite awhile for a shot like this

That's hardly true - you don't know how many people, animals and elements were effected by the electromagnetic rays and what the outcome of those doses of radiation were.

Just WOW
[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

Stereo B gif of the CME (7 frames)

[link to oi46.tinypic.com]

lol nah it was not earth directed.

Nice one IWTB76 !!!

WOW! that thing is HUGE



edit to add: the link that was posted updates automatically

here is what It looked like when it was posted

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

Last Edited by RTS REDUX on 07/12/2012 06:30 PM

something is appearing in the right upper corner

the x-ray flux is still M, falling now on C, after 3 hours

Amen brother! The Carrington Event was 1859 and the telegraph wires burned, even though batteries were disconnected from them. Even the paper in some of the Telegraph offices was ignited by the static and non-static electricity.

It was said to be the brightest nights ever seen by man. The newspapers from some towns and cities from that time claim that it was possible to read newsprint at midnight because of the brightness of the skies. That's a lot of light for midnight and of course it came from the aurora type lights in the upper atmosphere caused by the plasma discharge reaching the upper atmosphere.

It's said that if such an even were to happen again today, we would lose most cell and sat communication in the northern (or southern) hemisphere - depending on which was angled toward the sun when the discharge hit the surface of the earth.

That is because particles are shooting at soho cam causing a geometric disturbance nothing new or crazy.

also earthquakes in last week are happening on weird locations

its the aliens to absorb the rays and save us yet again

(sarcasm)

looks like white pixels

= 7.6ish quake?

I love when people bring up the Carrington Event as if we are still using telegraphs and technology from 1859

The proton flux recovery time keeps going higher

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]

I dont think this week is going to end well

hint hint there sparky

that stuff was tough by todays standards

our modern semiconductors would have a real problem with an event like that

hhhmmm....maybe it will take down all the bank servers

oh boy, double doom (sun and $$$)

It appears to be subsiding?

There is no substantive scientific evidence to suggest that energetic proton events are harmful to human health at ground levels, particularly at latitudes where most of the Earth's population resides. The Earth's magnetic field is exceptionally good at preventing the radiative effects of energetic particles from reaching ground levels. High altitude commercial transpolar aircraft flights have measured increases in radiation during energetic proton events, but a warning system is in place that limits these effects by alerting pilots to lower their cruising altitudes. Aircraft flights away from the polar regions are far less likely to see an impact from solar proton events.

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Would anyone care to speculate what a large electromagnetic discharge on earth would do to unprotected hard drives and storage drives..?

Most everything is stored digitally..

medical records, bank records, etc.

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it's been over 100 years i'm sure we've improved some techniques...

But isnt our magnetic field failing now

Im not trying to be ignorant, but does anyone know how long it takes for these things to make contact with out atmosphere? I looked and got a few answers...around 12-17 hours