***1' st M-Class Flare of the year!***

Lets get this thing cookin'. M-Class isn't even good enough for medium-rare.

Thread: Holy shit! BIG ONE from the SUN!

Here is the first vid.

This is the latest data from the NASA's SOHO C2 cam...


the cme is still blowing out from sunspot 1149. Again, this CME accompanied the M-1 Flare.

Amazing how we keep lucking out!

Anyone that keeps an eye out for the CME's know that the "Spots"...keep blowing before, and after they would have an affect on us.

While waiting for updates, I could not help but be amazed by this spectacular phenomena, comming out of Nebraska.

A thread unto it's self for some, I am sure!

"V-TOPPED LIGHT PILLARS: Light pillars are a common sight around cities in winter. Urban lights bounce off ice crystals in the air, producing tall luminous columns sometimes mistaken for auroras. But the light pillars Mike Hollingshead saw last night near a corn mill in Nebraska were decidely uncommon. "They had V-shaped tops," he explains, "and some of the Vs were nested." Here is what he saw:
:lightpillars:

"These light pillars are not just rare, they are exceptional!" declares atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley. "Ordinary pillars are produced by plate-shaped ice crystals roughly half way between you and the light source. These ones are different. Their rarely seen flared tops show that they were made by column-shaped crystals drifting slowly downwards and aligned horizontal by air resistance."

"The flares are a form of the upper tangent arcs that we sometimes see in daytime halo displays," he continues. "But even more exotic, some flares have a second one nested within them! Some ice crystal columns do not rotate but instead keep two of their prism faces improbably horizontal to give us the very uncommon Parry arcs of solar halo displays. The nested flares here are amazing and probably the light halo equivalent of Parry arcs."

[link to spaceweather.com]

If I was standing there I think I woud crap my pants.

For those of you that are interested in links/

Here they are...

Enjoy!


[link to www.solarcycle24.com]
[link to sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov]
[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]
[link to lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil]
[link to lasco-www.nrl.navy.mil]
[link to www2.nict.go.jp]
[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov]
[link to stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov]
[link to spaceweather.com]

Hey tomas, a thread appeared about 8 hours before yours and I posted my thoughts in that.

Literally appeared as the flare peaked.

Thread: M1 Solar Flare 1/27/2011

I rarely post a thread, but when I do it is because it is something I would like to research, and/or discuss. I researched the database for relevant posts, the "Topic of Conversation", was left undone to say the least.

DOUBLE ERUPTION: Jan. 28th began with not one but two major eruptions on the sun. Separated by more than a million kilometers, the two blasts occurred almost simultaneously on opposite corners of the solar disk. Click on the image to view a movie recorded by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory:

On the lower left, a magnetic filament became unstable and erupted, hurling a portion of itself into space. On the upper right, departing sunspot 1149 produced an M1-class solar flare and a bright coronal mass ejection (SOHO movie). Is this all a big coincidence? Maybe not. New research shows that eruptions on the sun can "go global" with widely separated blasts unfolding in concert.

These blasts are going to miss in concert, too. Plasma clouds ejected by the two eruptions will sail wide of our planet, one on the left and one on the right. No Earth-effects are expected; maybe next time.

[link to spaceweather.com]



I have to appologize for the pixelation/ distortion of this .Gif...downsizing a 4.5m image to 200 kb takes a toll!


Give it a few more years folks!...they will have your cameras taking pics in terabytes...claiming it improves the quality of the photo!

What ever happened to cities running on 16 meg mainframe super computers!....cool rooms, gigantic disk drives, and punch cards?

Here is the first vid.

This is the latest data from the NASA's SOHO C2 cam...


the cme is still blowing out from sunspot 1149. Again, this CME accompanied the M-1 Flare.

Amazing how we keep lucking out!

Anyone that keeps an eye out for the CME's know that the "Spots"...keep blowing before, and after they would have an affect on us.

So exactly what would you like to dicuss about it?

Long time no see OTOC!, I hope you are doing well. I am sure ole SOL will spit around for a while, and give us a chance to talk some more. Spring is supposedly around the corner; I hope you guys thaw out soon!