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

This is the latest!

This is a nice representation of this CME, as seen from the perspective of our own NASA SOHO C2.



I know that there is a lot of confusion for people between NASA's SOHO, and STEREO satellites. SOHO, unlike the STEREO satelites is in an optical telescope that looks "head on" at the sun; between the Sun, and the Earth. The Stereo Satellites (two of them), are like the eyes on your head, in that they are positioned laterally; one to our left view...catching that hemisphere of the sun with a "sneak peek" to what is comming, and the other gving a look around to our fading sun spots, coronal holes, and whispy solar filaments.

Our upgrade to SOHO if you will is SDO...wonderful and amazing!




Imagery courtesy of NASA







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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:


"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]

This is the latest!

This is a nice representation of this CME, as seen from the perspective of our own NASA SOHO C2.

:CME012811:

I know that there is a lot of confusion for people between NASA's SOHO, and STEREO satellites. SOHO, unlike the STEREO satelites is in an optical telescope that looks "head on" at the sun; between the Sun, and the Earth. The Stereo Satellites (two of them), are like the eyes on your head, in that they are positioned laterally; one to our left view...catching that hemisphere of the sun with a "sneak peek" to what is comming, and the other gving a look around to our fading sun spots, coronal holes, and whispy solar filaments.

Our upgrade to SOHO if you will is SDO...wonderful and amazing!




Imagery courtesy of NASA







edit txt

Am I the only one that sees Christ in that image?

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:


"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]

That's a very cool pic...last time I saw something like that I was getting molested by some grays...

That's a hell of a release! Sorta reminds me of the other night...

Am I the only one that sees Christ in that image?