Sunspot as big as Jupiter com in' round the bend | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 26795689 United States 01/08/2013 04:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: #Geomagnetic_Storm# :bertbook: |
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Raveninns User ID: 1086505 Canada 01/08/2013 05:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: #Geomagnetic_Storm# OMG WOW! Thanks for the heads up. WOW! Great Spirit, make me ready, for that last sunset, and my Spirit will come to you without shame. |
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Holden Wayment User ID: 29226394 United States 01/08/2013 05:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Advanced alien technology would likely be able to make a star such as our sun fire off an enormous blast at will... via an artificially-created 'sunspot on steroids' firing off a CME 1,000's of times more potent than anything we've seen firsthand. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 2890226 Canada 01/08/2013 05:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Death Star Quoting: Holden Wayment 29226394 Advanced alien technology would likely be able to make a star such as our sun fire off an enormous blast at will... via an artificially-created 'sunspot on steroids' firing off a CME 1,000's of times more potent than anything we've seen firsthand. Funny I just had a thought about the same thing.. well that and that so called planet x was actually inside the sun using it as badass dysonsphere. No one ever thinks to look INSIDE the sun. wooooooooooooo /geek |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 31742989 Germany 01/08/2013 06:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Latest SDO HMI Closeup: [link to helioviewer.org] Magnetogram: [link to helioviewer.org] SDO AIA 171 (nice magnetic loops) [link to helioviewer.org] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28390336 Estonia 01/08/2013 06:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you trust this database: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31729631 [link to sidc.oma.be] last time we had around 190 sunspots was at solar maximum on 07/28/2002 192 sunspots SUNSPOT NUMBER IS NOT a count of sunspots !!!! todays sunspot number is around 190 |
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OVRANALYZE User ID: 5527577 United States 01/08/2013 07:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: #Geomagnetic_Storm# yep that is crazy big |
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AAAAAAAAA User ID: 23231420 United States 01/08/2013 07:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ok, first off thank you (I rated this as a 5 star thread) WOW. I have personally watched this solar max every day now everyday for roughly the last 1.5 to 2 years... TO ANYONE NEW TO THE RESEARCHING OF SUN SPOTS / SOLAR ACIVITY... THIS IS THE BIGGEST SUNSPOT I HAVE PERSONALLY SEEN ON THE SOLAR DISK IN THE LAST 500 DAYS. PERIOD... I am astonished that space weather and solarham aren't warning of this behemoth region...! Wow... Great find op! One side of me is hoping for an earth directed cme to analyse the effects that the sun produces on earth. (does it really cause eq activity, will it put us back to the stoneage ect). But the other side of me is saying... THIS specific sunspot is certainly not the one I wanted to collect data from... I TRULY FEAR 'ANY' X-CLASS CME'S that may stem from this sunspot... YES I SAID FEAR!!! 5 star op... 5 star! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 31747894 Brazil 01/08/2013 07:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | yes mate we had in 1859 one very very big suspot, see below. Solar storm of 1859 [link to en.m.wikipedia.org] A Super Solar Flare [link to science.nasa.gov] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 28232082 United States 01/08/2013 08:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you trust this database: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31729631 [link to sidc.oma.be] last time we had around 190 sunspots was at solar maximum on 07/28/2002 192 sunspots SUNSPOT NUMBER IS NOT a count of sunspots !!!! todays sunspot number is around 190 The Sunspot Number Explained [link to spaceweather.com] Sunspot number today is: 196 (on the left) [link to spaceweather.com] when this area of the sun was earth facing last, 27 days ago on Dec 12, 2012, the sunspot number was 55 [link to spaceweather.com] that is an increase of 141 within one solar rotation |
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jonesin User ID: 18581403 United States 01/08/2013 08:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ive got 5 bucks that says it fizzles out, just like all the spots that come around to earth facing. I would really like to know why? Ive read we need small flares to keep everything working correctly, we have not had any significant flares for how long now? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 9266723 United States 01/08/2013 08:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ive got 5 bucks that says it fizzles out, just like all the spots that come around to earth facing. Quoting: jonesin I would really like to know why? Ive read we need small flares to keep everything working correctly, we have not had any significant flares for how long now? We don't need flares for anything. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 31676698 Netherlands 01/08/2013 08:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Ive got 5 bucks that says it fizzles out, just like all the spots that come around to earth facing. Quoting: jonesin I would really like to know why? Ive read we need small flares to keep everything working correctly, we have not had any significant flares for how long now? how many months does the sun just fizzle out? too much, nothing will happen as usual. just high hopes |
Anonymous astrophysicist User ID: 1397298 United States 01/08/2013 08:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This is the same sunspot that was in the center of the Suns disk on december 22. It is obviously growing. With all of the Sunspots peppering the Suns surface it is obvious *something* is collapsing their complex magnetic fields preventing energetic eruptions as they rotate into geo effective position but don't count on that to last! |