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

Noice!

Flare peaked at C9.34....may have produced a CME as well.

:flare-beyond-limb:

https://imgur.com/W5V7mat

[link to www.solarham.net (secure)]

https://imgur.com/3Bze60z

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov (secure)]

Definitely a CME event.

SIDC Quicklook movie:

[link to www.sidc.be (secure)]

:flare-betond-lim:

C 9.3 now

https://twitter.com/_/status/1553919440592437248

and that filament just in front of us...

givin light to those dark holes...

on a Fight!

ALL!~ Hi, Simple27 and Helios!

This is a "classy" report on the most current events
on our star (8-01-2022)....Just LOVE this guy's material.
He comes to us from Athens--which also seem very "classy"
doesn't it? lol! Video published this afternoon 8-01-2022.

Enjoy!


[link to youtu.be (secure)]

Nemesis Maturity presentation for August 1, 2022.
Very well done.


The Oracle's Cookie

Last Edited by The Oracle's Cookie on 08/01/2022 09:23 PM

Here ya go!

India spaceweather news is throwing their "cosmic HAT"
into the ring this week with this article concerning their
analysis of an in-bound Solar Storm August 3rd (tomorrow)
...Anyone have any insight into this one?
[link to www.india.com (secure)]

This isn't reported on the regular NASA or other U.S.-based
spaceweather sites I check every A.M. So...WHAT GIVES?


The Oracle's Cookie

Spaceweather says today :)

SLIGHT CHANCE OF STORMS: NOAA forecasters say there is a slight chance of minor G1-class geomagnetic storms today as Earth enters a high-speed stream of solar wind. The gaseous material is flowiing from a southern hole in the sun's atmosphere.

https://imgur.com/oKUSSxN

[link to www.spaceweather.com (secure)]

Well...that doesn't look very good!

Thanks, kiddo!


The Oracle's Cookie

C6.9

https://imgur.com/3hepFXB

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov (secure)]

https://imgur.com/v91NnJG

[link to www.lmsal.com (secure)]

CHANCE OF EARTH-DIRECTED FLARES: Growing sunspot AR3068 has developed a 'beta-gamma' magnetic field that harbors energy for M-class solar flares. Any explosions today will be geoeffective because the sunspot is almost directly facing Earth.

[link to www.spaceweather.com (secure)]

GIANT SOLAR PROMINENCE: There's a loop of plasma on the sun's eastern limb so large that normal scientific notation doesn't describe it. "It's ginormous," explains Richard N. Schrantz, who sends this picture from his backyard observatory in Nicholasville, Kentucky:

https://imgur.com/4FbsgxM

The arch is 325,000 km long--almost the distance between Earth and the Moon. These dimensions make it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. If you have one, don't wait. The right foot of the structure is increasingly unstable, and the whole thing could collapse at any moment.

[link to www.spaceweather.com (secure)]

The C6.9 flare from Earth-facing AR3068... SolarDemon movie:

[link to www.sidc.be (secure)]

Moderate dimming and shockwave visible in this SIDC animation:

[link to www.sidc.be (secure)]

The big Tonga undersea volcano eruption sent shockwaves into the Mesosphere (can't find the citation now but I know I posted it here after it was announced) back in January. Now JPL claims an enormous amount of water vapor was injected into the stratosphere. Water vapor is a much more potent greenhouse gas than the overly-demonized CO2, yet they say it will have no measurable effect on global warming. Don't believe the carbon dioxide hype!

Jet Propulsion Laboratory press release--

Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount of Water Into Stratosphere

When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South Pacific Ocean also blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools. The sheer amount of water vapor could be enough to temporarily affect Earth’s global average temperature.

Read the rest here:

[link to www.jpl.nasa.gov (secure)]

Very interesting ^^^^^^^^

ERUPTING PROMINENCE: A dramatic solar prominence, which astronomers have been monitoring for days, may be erupting right now. If you have a solar telescope, point it at the sun's eastern limb to witness the liftoff.

[link to www.spaceweather.com (secure)]

Outage alert: A fiber-optic link between SDO's White Sands ground station and Stanford University is down. Daily sun updates will be delayed until repairs are complete.

[link to www.spaceweather.com (secure)]

Adrenals hyped for many since last night ..we are connected to the suns

RARE BLUE JET LIGHTNING SIGHTED OVER TEXAS: Seeing one blue jet is rare. Photographer Matthew Griffiths just caught several of them over the Big Bend National Park in Texas. "This is by far the best," he says:

https://imgur.com/6zGGocf

Griffiths is an amateur photographer, primarily interesting in wildlife and the Milky Way. "On July 28th, I was starting a five night West Texas road trip to capture the Milky Way," he says. "But with thunderstorms storms in the distance I decided to try for red sprites instead."

He ended up photographing the sprite's elusive blue cousin. First recorded by cameras on the space shuttle in 1989, blue jets are part of a growing menagerie of cloudtop "transient luminous events." Sprites, ELVES and green ghosts are other examples. They are all elusive, but blue jets may be the hardest to catch.
"We're not sure why ground-based observers see them so rarely," says Oscar van der Velde of the Lightning Research Group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. "It might have something to do with their blue color. Earth's atmosphere naturally scatters blue light, which makes them harder to see. Blue jets might be more common than we think."

A rookie mistake might have helped Griffiths. "This is only my second time trying for sprites. I might have aimed my camera too close to the cloud tops where bright lightning washed out the sprites; in fact, I couldn't find any sprites in my photos. But I think my camera angle was just right for catching the bright blue jet."

https://imgur.com/bODoenT

Blue jets might look like lightning, but they are not the same. Normal lightning carves a scorching-hot path through the atmosphere, heating the air to 30,000 degrees Celsius. Blue jets are made of cold plasma akin to gas inside a flourescent light bulb. You could touch one with your hand and it might not hurt.
And, of course, they go up instead of down. Photos taken from the International Space Station (ISS) show that blue jets reach astonishing altitudes, as high as 170,000 feet. This is high enough to touch the ionosphere, possibly forming a new and poorly understood branch of Earth's global electrical circuit.

"Also," says van der Velde, "there can be considerable production of NOx and ozone by these discharges, potentially affecting the chemistry of the upper atmosphere."

Clearly, it is important to study blue jets. Photographers, now you know where to look.

[link to www.spaceweather.com (secure)]

All connected :)

DOH!



My lengthy informative post was just disappeared. I'll try one more time, but it's very frustrating to waste your valuable time. GLP should do better.



Last Edited by Helios Maximus on 08/04/2022 10:03 PM

SDO IS NO-GO--

Blog post announcement from NASA.........

Major Outage -- The fiber optic link between White Sands Ground Station and the JSOC is down
Major Outage -- The fiber optic link between White Sands Ground Station and the JSOC in California is down. Repairs are underway.

Time Down: 08/03/2022 14:57 CT (08/03/2022 19:57 GMT)
Time Reported: 08/03/2022 15:10 CT (08/03/2022 20:10 GMT)

Reason for outage:
WSC/STA Links 1000/1001 down 03/1957:08Z. Carrier notified and they are experiencing an outage on an OC-192 between Sacramento and Burbank, Ca. The technicians in Sacramento have identified/found a bad timing and control module with no spares in inventory. They will ordered one from the vendor and expect it's arrival sometime today. (SR)

Outage Impact: SDO data

will this prominence create the hyder flare i think it is called? um wasn't that what that huge carrington event was about?

If there's a major flare during the SDO outage, the GOES Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) is your best alternative for realtime imagery.

[link to www.swpc.noaa.gov (secure)]

Also, the GONG H-alpha Network will show most flares and filament eruptions (except it's not so good on the limbs). The green highlighted ground-based telescopes are live.

[link to gong2.nso.edu (secure)]

The STEREO Ahead EUVI is also an option. The wavelengths 195 and 304 angstrom are usually near-realtime. Check the timestamps.

[link to stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov (secure)]