Sun Stuff: What's up!

[Rocky_Shorz]

for those who have enjoyed this nice quiet sun thinking it is over... ummm

this is what is about to swing towards us...


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are they giving us a hint of what's coming by raising the dark energy max from 50 to 65?

quake map

[MorningSong]

Yes, sir! A huge flare and full-halo CME event took place this morning on the backside:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tkKKvlP0as

It isn't Earth directed but the proton flux has already started arriving... this was absolutely huge, folks!

[MorningSong]

Latest from spaceweather.com:

VERY FAST FARSIDE CME: A coronal mass ejection (CME) blasted away from the sun this morning with rare speed: 2930 km/s or 6.5 million mph. CMEs moving this fast occur only once every ~5 to 10 years. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the cloud's emergence on July 23rd starting around 0300 UT:



The source of the CME was sunspot AR1520, which sparked many bright auroras earlier this montth when it was on the Earthside of the sun. Now, however, the active region is transiting the sun's farside so this blast was not geoeffective. One can only imagine the geomagnetic storms such a fast CME could produce if it were heading our way. Stay tuned for additional analysis.

Update: According to a forecast track prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, this CME will miss all of the solar system's inner planets.

[astrid]

Yep.. i was just watching Keith's clip of this one

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEjQAhMAZgg

[Rocky_Shorz]

Posted by MorningSong (here)
Yes, sir! A huge flare and full-halo CME event took place this morning on the backside:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tkKKvlP0as

It isn't Earth directed but the proton flux has already started arriving... this was absolutely huge, folks!

the back side is quieting down since I first glanced, we were all hoping for them to disappear, this mind over matter stuff is great!!!

did anyone estimate the size of that backside burst?

[MorningSong]

No, Rocky, I haven't seen any estimate on the power of that flare....would be nice to know, though.

[Rocky_Shorz]

it blew out away from us, then the magnetic pull of the sun drew them all back again and pummeled us. I didn't realize before that flare it doesn't matter which way it is pointed when it is a big one, we are affected...

[Wantsthetruth74]

Looky what just popped!!!! And we had the weirdest sunset hours tonight. Looked like had some auroras influencing. I will try to upload some footage I took. But it might be tomorrow.


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[astrid]

Keith is predicting that this solar cycle will last until 2014!

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y-dd-ucFsg

[astrid]

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXVv7dvR9b4

[MorningSong]

Just a quick update on the past 3 days of solar activity:

We got an M-flare on the 27th, on the 28th (M6.1 from sunspot 1532) and one already this morning (M2).

SolarMonitor and SolarSoft are showing "No Data" flags... sats might be down (?). IPS has not updated since July 19. SolarHam's on vacation.

The proton flux has decreased but is still above normal levels and flowing at a pretty constant rate.

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/pro_3d.html

Yesterday we got a Gamma-ray burst from the constellation of Vela.

http://grb.sonoma.edu/

From spaceweather.com:

SOLAR ACTIVITY PICKS UP: Sunspot AR1532 is crackling with M-class solar flares. The latest, an M6-class eruption on July 28th (2056 UT), produced a bright flash of extreme ultraviolet radiation, shown here in a snapshot from the Solar Dynamics Observatory:



Update: Contrary to earlier reports, this explosion did produce a CME and the cloud is heading for Earth. According to a forecast track prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the CME will reach our planet on July 31st at 1500 UT (+/- 7 hours). Weak to moderate geomagnetic storms are possible when the cloud arrives.

From SolarWatcher:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2bFo-1MFag

And this as well from spaceweather.com:

GEOMAGNETIC STORM WARNING: NOAA forecasters estimate a 45% chance of polar geomagnetic storms on July 29-30 in response to a high-speed solar wind stream buffeting Earth's magnetic field. Even stronger storming could occur on July 31st when a CME associated with yesterday's M6-flare arrives. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras for the next three nights.

[Rocky_Shorz]

SDO is still showing current images...



It's swinging into range so any flares/CME in the next 4 days are earthbound...

[Rocky_Shorz]

looks like it's hitting about 7AM my time, not huge but more than middle America needs right now...

World Peace?

[Wantsthetruth74]

You know, when that last cme popped,, Saturday midnightish into early sunday morning, I got an instant migrain headache. When I woke up sunday morning I felt like I had a horrible hangover. ( I had one beer Saturday night). Well, I didn't know that there had been a cme because the lasco movie thing was down. Well, now that I have seen it, I have a question. If it takes a couple days for "it" to get here, why do I have physical symptoms during the actual event. This is not the first time, this is a regular thing, however this one was more intense than most.

[MorningSong]

starchild111, what takes days to get to earth is the solar wind/plasma impact. There are other thngs that get to Earth much sooner, and that might be what you are sensing.

For example, sometimes before I get to see that there has been a big flare on the usual outlets I like to look at, I will look at the SWPC alerts and see that there have been "Sudden Impulses", "Type II (or Type IV) Emmissions" or 10cm Radio Bursts"....whatever they mean. Those alerts tell me that something has occured, you see.

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/arch...ent_month.html

In fact, the link above does show these kinds of events almost immediately after the actual flare(s) went off.. long before we "commoners" get any notification that the flare has occured, how big it was, where it came from, and if it is heading towards us or not.

I'm sure someone has posted this before, but this site (click all over) gives some good explainations on how solar flares affect us:

http://www.carliniinstitute.com/how_...e_affecting_us

Other links to good info:

http://www.naturalnews.com/032045_so...res_Earth.html

http://www.mazzastick.com/2012/03/09...-our-universe/

http://www.earthchangesmedia.com/mitch.php

http://helenbukulmez.com/2012/03/09/...ect-our-moods/

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ci...universe50.htm

http://www.americanlivewire.com/solar-flares/

[Wantsthetruth74]

Thank you so much for that morningsong!! That is a great explanation, and great links too. I am glad its not all in my head...LOL well, actually it feels like its all in my head.

[Rocky_Shorz]

Posted by starchild111 (here)
Thank you so much for that morningsong!! That is a great explanation, and great links too. I am glad its not all in my head...LOL well, actually it feels like its all in my head.

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the best way to track flares, is this graph, when I get a rush, it means we were just hit by an X-ray burst, looking at the graph you see a peak in the light purple...

[Rocky_Shorz]

900 million people lost power in India, half the population when the energy from this solar flare hit...

don't worry folks, not even worthy of mentioning in the news...

[Wantsthetruth74]

Anomaly seen in SOHO Aug 2.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq4a3CrYPlM

[MorningSong]

News from SuspiciousObservers:

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEbBxcC9IVs

I don't know at what time that video was done, but it looks like a filament eruption has occured on the southeastern limb producing a long duration C3.6 flare.