Solar Cycle Progression

[EarthlingX]

Sun storm !
http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html :

Active regions on 2010 04 06 (Solar monitor) :

• 11059
• 11060
• 11061

(edit 2010 april 12)
Last events, from SolarSoft Latest Events Archive

• 3-Apr-2010 18:24
• 4-Apr-2010 09:48
• 5-Apr-2010 09:45
• 6-Apr-2010 09:47
• 7-Apr-2010 09:48
• 8-Apr-2010 22:08

update ( 07:15 GMT )
static image from dynamic data at http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html :

I think that something going away from Sun can be seen on these images :
http://www.solarmonitor.org/ : 2010 04 05

EIT 195Å 20100404 23:36


I checked :
http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin ... length=195

and nope, that was not it.

 

[EarthlingX]

Effects on Earth :

SDC : Dazzling Photo: Space Station Flies Through Big Space Storm

By SPACE.com Staff

osted: 06 April 2010
11:19 am ET

An astronaut has captured the rare view of the International Space Station zooming through a dazzling display of Earth's aurora as the strongest geomagnetic storm of the year hit the planet.

In the stunning space aurora photo, the International Space Station is seen flying 220 miles (354 km) over an Earth lit up by eerie green auroras peppered by red hues. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft is backlit by the cosmic light show in the image.

Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi took the stunning photo and posted it Monday on Twitter, where he has been chronicling his six-month mission to the space station under the name Astro_Soichi [more aurora photos].

The International Space Station flies through Earth's aurora in this photo taken by Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and posted on April 5, 2010. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft is visible docked to the station. Full story.Credit: Astro_Soichi

 

[EarthlingX]

One more stormy image from http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html

• http://www.solarmonitor.org/ - 2010 04 07
• http://www.solarmonitor.org/ - 2010 04 06
• http://www.solarmonitor.org/ - 2010 04 05

(edit 2010.04.08 10:09 GMT)

Estimated Kp Index snapshot made on 2010.04.08 at
-------------------- 01:48 GMT ------------------------------------------------------------- 10:05 GMT --------------------
from www.n3kl.org :

Satellite Environment snapshot made on
------------- 2010.04.09 05:15 GMT -------------------------------------------- 2010.04.10 03:56 GMT -----------

 

[harrycostas]

G'day

Just moved house, what a solar pain.


Thank you for the links earthling.

 

[EarthlingX]

G'day

Just moved house, what a solar pain.

Yea, i don't want to imagine ..

Thank you for the links earthling.

No problem, i check them too, quite often, here's my bookmark for the live images :

http://www.space.com/common/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=22790&p=441141#p441141

Looks like another hiccup :

----- Satellite Environment (combined) ------------------------------------ Estimated Kp Index --------------
----- 2010.04.12 12:50 GMT --------------------------------------------------- 2010.04.12 12:50 GMT -----------

http://www.solarmonitor.org/ :

• 2010 04 12
• 2010 04 13

SolarSoft latest events

 

[EarthlingX]

http://www.universetoday.com : Our Sun Gets Active!

April 13th, 2010

Written by Nancy Atkinson

The Sun erupted with one of the biggest prominences in years. This shot from the SOHO spacecraft on April 13, 2010 at 13:13 UT shows a Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun's northeastern limb. The massive plasma-filled structure rose up and burst during a ~2 hour period around 0900 UT. Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society blog pointed out that you can watch a movie of the event by going to the "SOHO movie theater" . Just select "LASCO C2" from the "Image Type" menu, then click "Search." As Emily explained, the movie viewer will automatically grab all the LASCO C2 images from the previous 24 hours and animate them for you. So, if you want to watch the eruption from April 13, and it is a few days later, just put in "2010-04-13" as the start date.

Images of the eruption can also be found at SpaceWeather.com, and Richard Bailey at the Society for Popular Astronomy captured this shot of a detached prominence from the eruption, taken at 9:56 UT.

And there's more!

This SOHO image shows a huge CME on 4/13/2010. Credit: NASA/ESA/SOHO

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxx8RCXAVZQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPxhm2UNpqg[/youtube]

stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov : Huge Eruptive Prominence ( more video clips )

The STEREO (Ahead) spacecraft caught this spectacular eruptive prominence in extreme UV light as it blasted away from the Sun (Apr. 12-13, 2010).

 

[EarthlingX]

Activity on 2010/04/19 :

( HD available )
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GybG9MzarHs[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-om3FIzFTgQ[/youtube]

STEREO :
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MrYYprLyMM[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-hotCSo3Hg[/youtube]

 

[EarthlingX]

SDC : 'Spectacular' First Images from New Solar Observatory Released

By Andrea Thompson
SPACE.com Senior Writer
posted: 21 April 2010
02:33 pm ET



The first images of the sun beamed home from NASA's newest solar observatory have wowed mission scientists with their extraordinary detail and unexpected findings.

NASA released the first new images today from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, a probe launched on Feb. 11 to peer deep into the layers of the sun, monitor solar storms and investigate the mysteries of the sun's inner workings.

"The spacecraft and the instruments are working very well," said Richard Fisher, director of the Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. "What we've seen is truly, in my view, spectacular."

SDO first light and videos :

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/firstlight/

http://www.youtube.com//SDOmission2009

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrmUUcr4HXg[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99skxXgxTCc[/youtube]

SOHO, 29th - 31st March 2010 ( 1 frame/sec )
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql0omEm8DxY[/youtube]

STEREO, 30th March, ahead :
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KC8ReQrXB8[/youtube]

STEREO, 30th March, behind :
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Low0JtO7QU[/youtube]

 

[EarthlingX]

CMEs on 15th April 2010 :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19_dse1oqeY[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Fe0Rj9zjk[/youtube]

( second video has video debugging info in top left corner - try to ignore)

I made these two with 1 Frame/sec, and i find it still acceptable for single frame viewing, but i might be wrong.

 

[EarthlingX]

I added 4 more videos to the above posts.

Results of the above activity :

 

[EarthlingX]

science.nasa.gov : SDO Observes Massive Eruption, Scorching Rain

April 27, 2010: Just last week, scientists working with NASA's new Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) released the most astonishing movies of the sun anyone had ever seen. Now, they're doing it again.

"SDO has just observed a massive eruption on the sun—one of the biggest in years," says Lika Guhathakurta of NASA headquarters in Washington DC. "The footage is not only dramatic, but also could solve a longstanding mystery of solar physics."

Karel Schrijver of Lockheed Martin's Solar and Astrophysics Lab is leading the analysis. "We can see a billion tons of magnetized plasma blasting into space while debris from the explosion falls back onto the sun surface. These may be our best data yet."

(Original videos from the link above are better)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEsNWf5Y0do[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7gNlNWdjBI[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIQh6jMasQk[/youtube]

 

[EarthlingX]

Solar weather station :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpV01CysQeg[/youtube]

http://www.nasa.gov/goes-p

http://goes.gsfc.nasa.gov/

 

[EarthlingX]

SOHO - Pick of the week

STEREO (Behind) watched over a 48-hour period (April 23-25, 2010) as a substantial coronal hole (the much darker area) rotated towards solar center, while three small coronal mass ejections erupted from active regions near it (above and to the right). Coronal holes appear darker in extreme UV light because there is less material there that the spacecraft is imaging. They are a source of high-speed solar wind that streams particles out into space from there. When that coronal hole rotates around to where it faces Earth (in early May), gusts of solar wind will likely buffet Earth a few days later and generate some aurora at higher latitudes.

 

[MeteorWayne]

Very active Aurora (Of course,,,it's noon here )

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/gif/pmapN.gif

 

[EarthlingX]

Northern Aurora on 2010 05 02 :

Geomagnetic storm - satellite environment for 2010 May 03, by NOAA :



CME on 2010 May 03, by Spaceweather.com :

my messing :
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFPjbY5QlwA[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF3ixZ4vcAY[/youtube]

Number of Sun spots jumped from yesterday, by http://www.solarmonitor.org/ :

------------------ 2010 05 02 ------------------------------------ 2010 05 03 ------------------


------------------ 2010 05 04 ------------------------------------ 2010 05 05 ------------------

 

[EarthlingX]

www.universetoday.com : New Weekly Sun Fix: SDO's Pick of the Week

May 21st, 2010

Written by Nancy Atkinson


View of action on the Sun during this past week. Credit: NASA/SDO team

Images and data are starting to roll in from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and the images are nothing short of stunning. So, the SDO website has started a couple of new image gallery features, which will provide a "best of" weekly fix without overloading your Sun senses (and no sunscreen needed!) The first one is Pick of the Week. The image above is the first "pick" and what a pick it is! This SDO close-up shows a filament and active region on the Sun, taken in extreme UV light on May 18, 2010. It shows a dark and elongated filament hovering above the Sun’s surface, with bright regions beneath it. The filaments are cooler clouds of gas that are suspended by tenuous magnetic fields that are often unstable and commonly erupt. This one is estimated to be at least 60 Earth diameters long (about 805,000 km, or 500,000 miles). Wowza!

Click here to see a super-huge full disk image.

 

[EarthlingX]

Collection of older sunbursts, and i even agree with the music :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2NWqyn18Gs[/youtube]

 

[EarthlingX]

We have another storm :

a couple of days ago :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVi_F04jvfs[/youtube]

 

[MeteorWayne]

As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/sc ... 4jun_swef/

June 4, 2010: Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC are holding a meeting: The Space Weather Enterprise Forum at the National Press Club on June 8th.


Richard Fisher, head of NASA's Heliophysics Division, explains what it's all about:

"The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms. The intersection of these two issues is what we're getting together to discuss."

The National Academy of Sciences framed the problem two years ago in a landmark report entitled "Severe Space Weather Events—Societal and Economic Impacts." It noted how people of the 21st-century rely on high-tech systems for the basics of daily life. Smart power grids, GPS navigation, air travel, financial services and emergency radio communications can all be knocked out by intense solar activity. A century-class solar storm, the Academy warned, could cause twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina.

Much of the damage can be mitigated if managers know a storm is coming. ....

 

[MeteorWayne]

Fantastic Side view of a Solar prominence from STEREO:

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/pickoftheweek/

 

[EarthlingX]

Nice

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3znZ6gNnF50[/youtube]

 

[MeteorWayne]

Thanx EX. I was hoping you'd do that
I don't have the tools, the experience, or the time right now to try and get the images up here.
MW

 

[EarthlingX]

Thanx EX. I was hoping you'd do that
I don't have the tools, the experience, or the time right now to try and get the images up here.
MW

Sun is one of the very rare few stars that i'm able to find without a detective work, and i can even show it to other people
I have that video in 4 fps too, but it's not such a great resolution, even though i downloaded HiRes Video. I do have a good intention to do something about it, but it might not come to pass ..

nuff talk :
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDarCXz8QJE[/youtube]

I'm waiting for Hyades to exist the stage on the right, very close now, and then i get a nice preview of this time span. I'm already eyeing a couple of charming things, like this one, which is on my disk for a while, just never got to put it here :

SDO, 2010 May 23 :

I'm not too happy with access to SDO data, it just doesn't work as advertised, but they will fix it.

 

[EarthlingX]

During my more or less daily SpaceWeather check i found a couple of things, that might fit in this thread :

A solar wind stream flowing from the indicated coronal hole should reach Earth on June 8th. Credit: SDO/AIA

and

spaceweather.com : May 2010 Aurora Gallery

Well Worth the Wait!! It's been 5 years since I last saw the Northern Lights in my neck of the woods. And what a show it was! I watched the lights from 11pm CST - 2am CST Even witnessed the ISS pass thru my frames three times. Once at 11:08 and again at 12:13 if I recall correctly.
Tony Wilder, Chippewa Falls, WI, May. 3, 2010

...

Aurora came around midnight, long time no seen Latvia.
Photo details: Canon 40D, 17-40mm lens. Janis Satrovskis, Burtnieki, Latvia, May. 3, 2010

 

[EarthlingX]

Last couple of days, as seen by SOHO LASCO C3, on SOHO Real Time GIF Movies

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21TjRh_TVVc[/youtube]