Something Strange is happening with the Sun

[Hervé]

From SpaceWeather.com:

MAJOR SOLAR FLARE: This morning at 0805 UT, sunspot 1263 produced an X7-class solar flare--only the third X-flare of new Solar Cycle 24 and the most powerful so far. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the explosion's extreme ultraviolet flash:

The brunt of the explosion was not Earth directed. Nevertheless, a minor proton storm is in progress around our planet, which could affect satellites in high-altitude orbits. Also, radiation from flare created waves of ionization in Earth's upper atmosphere, briefly disrupting communications at some VLF and HF radio frequencies.
SOHO coronagraphs show a CME emerging from the blast site. The cloud will probably miss Earth. At this time, however, we cannot rule out a glancing blow from the flank of the CME on or about August 11th. Stay tuned for updates. Solar flare alerts:text, voice


From Solar monitor:

[Hervé]

TEC map (where these particles are hitting):

[yiolas]

Hey guys, I just found this you tuber called Dr. Keith Strong. He's been doing a quick daily summation of what is going on with the sun and does a great job in explaining all of the charts and graphs in layman's terms, as well as giving a short forecast as to what to expect in the coming days. He's really good, have a look.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=W0cgAV0wv7c

[MorningSong]

This is the second day in a row (the first 2 all year!) that there have practically been no sunspots recorded on the sun's earth-facing side.....

Ahhhhh...the silence of it all......



The Earthside of the sun is essentially blank--no sunspots. Credit: SDO/HMI

Awww darn.... but Solar soft says differently:


Most likely region to flare: NOAA 11270

[phillipbbg]

The calm before the storm.....

[Hervé]

HAARP strings getting plucked...

[astrid]

ttp://spaceweather.com/submissions/l...1313434464.jpg



Image taken:
Aug. 15, 2011
Location:
Madrid (SPAIN)
Details:
Cromosphere Halpha 656,28nm <.7A 2x1500 frames DMK21AU618.AS

[Carmody]

Posted by Floor (here)
Hello Philipbbg,
When there is a big solar flare (can be an M flare), we notice in our family fatigue and often a rise in unpleasant emotions/irritations. But when the flare hits the earth a few days later - an electromagnetic storm, then we become very peaceful, loving and positive and energetic. And it seems as if afther the storm whe can better behold such states. Especially after the last one on about last friday/saterday, this was very remarkable.I wonder if more people notice this. This morning (Netherlands - sorry for my english) we were all very tired I wondered wat the reason could be - and then I saw about the X flare. Thanks for the question, I am very interested in the aswers of others.

when the flare erupts, I get migraines and suffer disorientation, most times. Right at the exact minute the flare erupts, is when it begins and sort of 'peaks'..

When the flare hits the planet, if it is strong X class, then I get blown out of my body if I happen to be sleeping at the time. Or, one could say that I expand to full size as I slip out.

It is similar to what, for lack of a more recent description... what Jill Bolte Taylor speaks of in her TED talk.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_...f_insight.html

[astrid]

Here is a more current update from the source that Yiolas posted above...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fi6egxZque0

[Hervé]

I think these guys at SpaceWeather.com are getting the gist on how to play the Alternative media:


VENUS AND THE SOLAR STORM: (Note: No planets were harmed in the production of this movie.) Yesterday, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory witnessed a spectacular explosion on the sun that seemed to pass perilously close to Venus. Did the cloudy planet survive? Play the movie for answers:

Credit: Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, C2 coronagraph

As the movie shows, the CME passed harmlessly. There was no collision, and it wasn't even close. Although Venus seems to be near the sun, the planet is actually more than 100 million kilometers away. The two bodies are "in conjunction" this week as Venus moves almost directly behind the sun. Because of this arrangement, more CME-Venus conjunctions are possible in the days ahead. Check SOHO for the latest images

[Hervé]

HAARP going quiet for now...

[MorningSong]

Even thought they put in a note stating no planet was harmed in the production of the movie,

Did the cloudy planet survive?

Now that is one "scary" thought!! Senstionalism....fear mongering... "move along folks, nothing to see here"... "wow! more spectacular auroras to see, (yee hah!)" but no mention to what it "means" in practical scientific large-spectrum terms ...

At times, the writers at Spaceweather really bother me....

(my heart is still racing at the thought of Venus getting zapped and not surviving...duh!)

[Seikou-Kishi]

Venus is conjunct with the sun an awful lot; it has what astrologers call an inferior orbit, in that it orbits the sun closer to it than Earth does so that from the perspective of the Earth, Venus is never very far away from it. Venus is said to be in conjunction with the Sun when a) Venus is directly between the Sun and the Earth (the 'Inferior Conjunction'), or b) Venus is behind the Sun such that the Sun is directly between Earth and Venus (the 'Superior Conjunction'). In any astrological chart using a contemporary Sun and Venus, Venus can only get around 47°-48° away from the Sun because of that inferior orbit, which means as soon as it reaches that upper limit, it begins to move back on itself from a geocentric viewpoint, which is called 'retrograde' by astrologers.

Because of that, conjunctions between the Sun and Venus are very common, but I cannot guess why such a conjunction would have any effect on the sun such as causing coronal mass ejections. Rather, I would suggest that Venus is most likely to have an effect upon the sun when it reaches its perihelion, that is, the point in its orbit at which it is closest to the sun, which is independent of Earth's relative position.

Another way in which position might bring some effect to bear on the sun is when two planets are heliocentrically opposed, that is, when two planets line up so that they form a straight line with the Sun in the centre. One such recent aspect, which has since broken, was the heliocentric opposition of Jupiter and Saturn. It is often said that all the planets exist within the Sun's gravitational field, but it is equally true to say that the sun exists within the gravitational fields of its satellites, such that the gravitational fields of Jupiter and Saturn, being heliocentrically opposed, were pulling the Sun in different directions. That would engender coronal mass ejections, because the Sun's stability is a careful play off between its expansive heat and its constrictive gravity; with Jupiter and Saturn pulling on it from opposite directions, they could diminish the effect of the Sun's own gravity just enough for a CME to occur.

In summary, I wouldn't consider geocentric conjunctions to have any effect whatsoever upon the Sun, since such conjunctions are illusions created by our point of view, rather, I would suggest that people look out for the perihelions of the planets and heliocentric oppositions, whereby two planets may play tug of war with the sun.

[Hervé]

Posted by MorningSong (here)
Even thought they put in a note stating no planet was harmed in the production of the movie,

Did the cloudy planet survive?

Now that is one "scary" thought!! Senstionalism....fear mongering... "move along folks, nothing to see here"... "wow! more spectacular auroras to see, (yee hah!)" but no mention to what it "means" in practical scientific large-spectrum terms ...

At times, the writers at Spaceweather really bother me....

(my heart is still racing at the thought of Venus getting zapped and not survivng...duh!)

It seems it's coming to the point of: how to survive and generate hits and number of viewers in a doom&gloom and fear starved population...

Newspapers realized that a long, long time ago, nice news stories didn't sell but, by jove, blood and gore did... so they sold what people wanted to buy...

[Hervé]

The "conjunction"/alignment:

[astrid]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=92bAuPybbkE

Full story

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...8aug_cmemovie/

"August 18, 2011: For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released today during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar physicists, who say it could lead to important advances in space weather forecasting.
“The movie sent chills down my spine,” says Craig DeForest of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. "It shows a CME swelling into an enormous wall of plasma and then washing over the tiny blue speck of Earth where we live. I felt very small.”"

[MorningSong]

Thanks, Astrid.

This "new" research should (should) help scientists understand better what a strong incoming CME entails for planet Earth.

All. PLEASE note that the data used for this analysis was from 2008, though, NOT from a more recent event.

No, the sky isn't falling....yet. lol

[Hervé]

So, if it was a false alarm... what caused this:

???

[greybeard]

Posted by Amzer Zo (here)
So, if it was a false alarm... what caused this:

Attachment 9472

???

http://aslwww.cr.usgs.gov/Seismic_Data/heli2.shtml

http://earthquakestoday.info/

Two useful links

Chris

[ghostrider]

Posted by GlassSteagallfan (here)

Posted by aqr (here)
For a while i have been observing this daily event without comment, because i thought no, just my imagination. But now i can say that within the last month or so, sunset has moved laterally over 25 degrees from east to northeast, at least from my points of reference, which are fixed since they are my house windows.

Does this mean the earth is tilting more? Or leaning back?

Thanks in advance

tilting more, brown dwarf pulling on magnetic north, and pulling on our moon, coming in under the ecliptic plane.