The Sun Now

[Richard]

The Latest Images From SOHO and STEREO Spacecraft
Images usually update hourly

SOHO
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/home.html
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/eit_304/512/latest.jpg (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/eit_304/512/)
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/512/latest.jpg (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c3/512/)
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c2/512/latest.jpg (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c2/512/)

STEREO
http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/beacon/latest_256/behind_euvi_195_latest.jpghttp://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/beacon/latest_256/ahead_euvi_195_latest.jpg

[Gita]

That's one HUGE flare in pic 2!!:eek:

[bashi]

You missed the show today, Richard. It was really scary:

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/7808/201004131030c21024.jpg (http://img202.imageshack.us/i/201004131030c21024.jpg/)

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4783/201004131054c21024.jpg (http://img13.imageshack.us/i/201004131054c21024.jpg/)

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/4779/201004131106c21024.jpg (http://img156.imageshack.us/i/201004131106c21024.jpg/)

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/8373/201004131130c21024.jpg (http://img190.imageshack.us/i/201004131130c21024.jpg/)

[bashi]

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/3289/201004131154c21024.jpg (http://img208.imageshack.us/i/201004131154c21024.jpg/)

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/5230/201004131206c21024.jpg (http://img180.imageshack.us/i/201004131206c21024.jpg/)

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4500/201004131230c21024.jpg (http://img338.imageshack.us/i/201004131230c21024.jpg/)

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/4602/201004131254c21024.jpg (http://img695.imageshack.us/i/201004131254c21024.jpg/)

[Richard]

yeah, saw that one. just beautiful! :)

Much more to come, and soon too

[bashi]

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4507/201004131331c21024.jpg (http://img340.imageshack.us/i/201004131331c21024.jpg/)

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/7927/201004131354c21024.jpg (http://img695.imageshack.us/i/201004131354c21024.jpg/)

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4084/201004131406c21024.jpg (http://img405.imageshack.us/i/201004131406c21024.jpg/)

[K626]

It's a truly beautiful thing.

[Swami]

Automatically......?

Cool, now I can sit back and watch the show............:suspicious:
@Richard: Is there something like this, visual hourly update, for Earth's magnetic field...??

[bashi]

yeah, saw that one. just beautiful! :)

Much more to come, and soon too

This one was more than beautiful ...

[lightblue]

i'd call it hell raising...:faint2:

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[Sunny d]

This one was more than beautiful ...



Looked like a dragon...an angry dragon:confused::eek:

[bashi]

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Lock at this for comparision:

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/381/suposedlargecmewhichhit.jpg (http://img197.imageshack.us/i/suposedlargecmewhichhit.jpg/)


You can't see anything? Well, look at the faint circular hue in the lower part.
Thats nothing you will say.

Well, its the pic of the recent CME, which caused the most severe geomagnetical storm on Earth within the last 4 years.

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[Eric J (Viking)]

OMG! HUGE PROMINENCE: One of the biggest prominences in years erupted from the sun's northwestern limb yesterday. The massive plasma-filled structure rose up and burst during a ~2 hour period around 0900 UT on April 13th. Observers in Europe had a great view:

http://spaceweather.com/swpod2010/14apr10/Jo-Dahlmans1_strip.jpg

http://spaceweather.com/

viking

[Swami]

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Lock at this for comparision:

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/381/suposedlargecmewhichhit.jpg (http://img197.imageshack.us/i/suposedlargecmewhichhit.jpg/)


You can't see anything? Well, look at the faint circular hue in the lower part.
Thats nothing you will say.

Well, its the pic of the recent CME, which caused the most severe geomagnetical storm within the last 4 years.

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Are these kind of CME's created by the Sun's pulsing (Haramein)........?

[bashi]

Are these kind of CME's created by the Sun's pulsing (Haramein)........?

I dont know exactly, but if, then only if the pulsing effects the sunspotsa to erupt. Normally without a spot, no CME. So, as the pulsing will also occur without the spots and will not produce CMEs, the conclusion for me is that the main reason are the spots.

[Richard]

Automatically......?

Cool, now I can sit back and watch the show............:suspicious:
@Richard: Is there something like this, visual hourly update, for Earth's magnetic field...??

Yep, i created a personal page a few years back to monitor the sun from one location, it updates itself so you can just leave the page open.
I have since put it up at one of my websites for public access and has become one of the most viewed pages there.

http://2012info.ca/EarthWatch/Solar_Observatory.php

[Swami]

Yep, i created a personal page a few years back to monitor the sun from one location, it updates itself so you can just leave the page open.
I have since put it up at one of my websites for public access and has become one of the most viewed pages there.

http://2012info.ca/EarthWatch/Solar_Observatory.php

Thank you Sir......:thumb:
That is one cool page...!

[Indigo]

Just wondered if anyone else had seen this:

http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/toyota-cosmic-2010-04-14


OK, not aliens exactly. Cosmic rays. Toyota has - and we're really, really not making this up - called in NASA's engineering team to investigate whether cosmic rays could have been responsible for the mysterious ‘stuck accelerator' scandal that has plagued the manufacturer in recent months.

[Swami]

OK, not aliens exactly. Cosmic rays. Toyota has - and we're really, really not making this up - called in NASA's engineering team to investigate whether cosmic rays could have been responsible for the mysterious ‘stuck accelerator' scandal that has plagued the manufacturer in recent months.

That would mean that the coming days Toyota's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxREGCAg8lY) (Prius) are going to fly everywhere. There is a storm blowing out there right now.........:biggrin1:

[Richard]

As the notice at the top of this sub forum shows, we are currently in a Geomagnetic Storm, here's why.

The pic below show 2 items of great interest, 1st near 23:00 on the 9th a comet
appears at the bottom left and slowly vaporizes as it approaches the sun over several hours.
Then on the 13 a huge flare erupts visible on the top right, solar particle fromthat flare is what is hitting us today.
http://nexus.2012info.ca/images/current_c2small.gif

[Swanny]

I wonder if this has anything to do with the planes being grounded today

[lightblue]

it's to do with the volcano that's erupted in iceland...this was in the news..the dust traveling is obscuring the airspace, apparently...l :suspicious:

[Swami]

How many planes went done globally last couple of days/weeks...?
Anybody got numbers/links on that one......?
Lets see if we can find a pattern in relation to the sun.

[MorningSong]

Huge wave ripples on the sun??? It's got the willies! Anybody ever seen anything like this before??

http://solar.nro.nao.ac.jp/norh/html/daily/ifa_latest.html

http://solar.nro.nao.ac.jp/norh/html/daily/ifa_latest.png

[Swami]

Maybe this (http://www.sidc.be/cactus/out/diffmovie/cme0014.html) got something to do with it....??

[MorningSong]

WOW! That looks like a huge flare!

We need to watch the 2 huge coronal holes that have formed, too. (see spaceweather.com)

Solar wind has been in the normal range but the density of protons and electrons have been near ZERO! That means that the magnopause if very weak at this time and solar plasma and x-rays (which have increased in the past 24 hours) can easily penetrate the shield like arrows and hit earth .

If we are due to get CMEs and solar wind (which should get here around the 22nd) in the next few days, it could get dangerous.

Heads UP and hold onto your seats!

[Swami]

LASCO isn't updating at this moment in time........:confused:

[rosie]

http://i40.tinypic.com/255mnaq.jpg
April 18th pic
Explanation: What's happened to our Sun? Last week, it produced one of the largest eruptive prominences ever seen. Pictured above, the prominence erupted in only a few hours and was captured in movie form by NASA's twin Sun-orbiting STEREO satellites. A quiescent solar prominence is a cloud of hot solar gas held above the Sun's surface by the Sun's magnetic field. Unpredictably, however, prominences may erupt, expelling hot gas into the Solar System via a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). As pictured above, many Earths would easily fit under the expanding ribbon of hot gas. Although somehow related to the Sun's changing magnetic field, the energy mechanism that creates and sustains a Solar prominence is still a topic of research.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100418.html
Love this pic of the sun

[Eric J (Viking)]

Very quite!!!

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2010/19apr10/midi512_blank.gif?PHPSESSID=pl8qv5bn11l2jnamombkisq021

viking

[Swami]

Whats that at the bottom......?

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=715

[Swami]

Another anomalie...

719

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=716

[MorningSong]

OMG! And that's a calm sun????

[Swami]

This was in a youtube Viking posted in another thread..........
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=720

[Swanny]

Hey Swami that fits with my date of the 23rd April :)

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?812-23rd-of-April-2010

:p

[Swami]

Fits this Admiral........

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/2010/c3/20100419/20100419_2218_c3_1024.jpg

[john.d]

A friend just sent me this link which has some good images of the sun :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2010/apr/22/sdo-solar-dynamics-observatory?picture=361762554

John

[Richard]

I knew when they launched the Solar Dynamic Observatory (http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/) spacecraft in February we were to be in for a treat,
the images are going to be simply incredible! get ready for a spectacular couple years (at least)
of photos of the extreme HD variety
750
:jaw:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmm3J0WAres

[Swami]

Ooh yeah, you can say that again.

I'm walking on adrenaline these days and cant stop laughin.......

[rosie]

Sometimes it takes new technology to see what has always been there, I am hoping this new high def STO will take us there. I am guessing that all the juicy stuff will be kept from the public, but hoping they will leak out enough to get us on the right track.

Here's to new technology! :cheer2::cheer2::cheer2::rapture:

[Oliver]

Newest NASA picture of the sun, from a satellite launched two months ago. Unseen! Take a breath..!

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/445842main_Title_still%20from%20visual%201.jpg

[Mandala]

I guess Michio Kaku was right that initially, they got it wrong. I remember him saying that the next few years would be a low solar flare cycle. Then he said, we got it wrong, it will be a very active solar cycle, possibly some large CMEs.

(AOL April 22) -- Your mother may have told you to never stare at the sun. But you won't be able to look away from the first set of stunning images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

The pictures taken by the 3-ton satellite, which was thrown into the Earth's orbit three months ago, show our nearest star up close and in ultra-fine detail. Arcs of superheated plasma are captured as they erupt from the sun's surface and soar tens of thousands of miles into space. Waves of charged gas are seen rippling out across the star's surface, traveling at 500,000 miles an hour. And ultraviolet cameras capture the swirls and turbulence at the heart of the raging inferno.

While other high-definition satellites have snapped small segments of the sun's surface before, the SDO can observe the entirety of the solar disc. As well as seeing the big picture, it can also zoom in and pick out features as small as 220 miles across. (Pretty impressive, when you realize that the sun is some 90 million miles away.)

"These initial images show a dynamic sun that I had never seen in more than 40 years of solar research," said Richard Fisher, director of the Heliophysics Division at NASA.

[Chrononaut]

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/27apr10_plasmarain http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2010/04/27/splash_med400_.jpg

Very interesting!

[Lucid Jia]

Massive CME just happened...
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/2010/c2/20100505/20100505_2154_c2_512.jpg
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/2010/c2/20100505/20100505_2206_c2_512.jpg
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/2010/c2/20100505/20100505_2230_c2_512.jpg
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/2010/c2/20100505/20100505_2306_c2_512.jpg

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/c2/512/

Namaste, Jia.

[bashi]

A very strange filament is developing:

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/976/prominence1.jpg (http://img291.imageshack.us/i/prominence1.jpg/)

[rosie]

bashi, I am not sure what you are looking at Can you give a link to what site you downloaded the pic from?

[bashi]

bashi, I am not sure what you are looking at Can you give a link to what site you downloaded the pic from?

It was on the http://www.spaceweather.com/ ,

but they have removed the link. It looked just too scary, i think.


Ok, here it is : http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=18&month=05&year=2010

and http://www.spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Pete-Lawrence-2010-05-17_09-22-49_SF70ss_1274104070.jpg




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[MorningSong]

Here you can see the solar filament at the NW :

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/eit_195/512/latest.jpg

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/eit_304/512/latest.jpg

[Etherios]

what might this bring?

[Thodin303]

First article I saw on yahoo this morning. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100609/sc_space/moreactivesunmeansnastysolarstormsahead) More Active Sun Means Nasty Solar Storms Ahead.

[RAKMEiSTER]

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p217/rakmeister/20110319_200000_Ic_4k.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p217/rakmeister/20110319_200000_Ic_4k.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p217/rakmeister/20110319_200000_Ic_flat_4k.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p217/rakmeister/20110319_200000_Ic_flat_4k.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p217/rakmeister/f0304pfss.jpg

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p217/rakmeister/f0304pfss.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p217/rakmeister/f0304.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p217/rakmeister/f0304.jpg
4096x4096p all images goto pic direct to see and enlarge full size


Sunspot 1175 / Solar Update (March 19) + forecast
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?16687-Sunspot-1175-Solar-Update-%28March-19%29&p=179386#post179386

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c2small.gif
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/where/where_is_stereo.gif
and where will others be (can choose date centre/orbit/angle etx)
http://secchi.nrl.navy.mil/STEREOorbit/Ikeya_murakami.html

[linz2d]

The sun must of tripped over a stone in its path today... looks like things are beginning to pick up again.

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Hi :)

Just wanted to post some linked pictures with additional views of the Sun's current state.

1) View of all the active regions on the Sun on the Earth Side. The region marked with darker shade of yellow is the part of sun directly facing Earth. A Sun rotates regions in this picture move from left to right.
http://www.raben.com/sites/default/files/solarmaps/currentActiveRegions.png
Source: http://www.raben.com/sites/default/files/solarmaps/currentActiveRegions.png

2) View of all the active regions on the Sun on the Far Side. A Sun rotates regions in this picture move from right to left.
http://www.raben.com/sites/default/files/solarmaps/farSideActiveRegions.png
Source: http://www.raben.com/sites/default/files/solarmaps/farSideActiveRegions.png

3) Key code explanation for both. Numbers are official region numbers.
http://www.raben.com/sites/default/files/solarmaps/vsikey.jpg
Source: http://www.raben.com/sites/default/files/solarmaps/vsikey.jpg
Taken from Raben Systems site: http://www.raben.com/maps/

4) Below is a link to NOAA past 7 days Suns events warnings timeline
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/alerts_timeline.html
Unfortunately images are generated with unique names so it is not so easy to just embed them. They look like that:

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/graphics/alerts_timeline_22317.png
Source: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/graphics/alerts_timeline_22317.png

5) Below is a link to a web page displaying plot of past 7 day history of effective sunspot number (SSNe)
http://www.nwra.com/spawx/ssne24.html
Unfortunately images are generated with unique names so it is not so easy to just embed them. They look like that:

http://www.nwra.com/spawx/ssne24_099002.gif
Source: http://www.nwra.com/spawx/ssne24_099002.gif

[hdthewise]

how do i work out the time i live in Oklahoma and am central time every thing is UT time some people say 7, 8,&6 hours.
also what is the length time the Cme's takes to get here is it 7,6,5 days i know i sound stupid but i have had back surgery to get my legs to work better and they have me on some weird meds my thought process is way off lol writing this i had to draft it in note pad then paste took me 30 Min's to write i am confined to a chair and and bed. i can go for walks but its cold here and that doesn't do well with all the hard ware they put in me it gets quite cold any way if you have time or some web page it would be appreciated.

[marlowe]

Earth facing solar eruption in progress...this is huge :smokin: possible largest in 4 years...short video.....we can expect big quakes or one big quake....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYKP5jJXSTM

[marlowe]

here is a less threatening prediction concerning this solar eruption...but I don't but it.:bs:...I could be wrong but I think we will see some serious earth movements...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0AX8L8qgA