Ray Rolfe
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Sep 5, 2001
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Re: Solar Storm Informant
Posted:
Jul 25, 2004 10:20 PM
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I don't know how the sun keeps topping itself. It's insane. How many times can I say "Whoe! the most intence solar event ever witnessed just happened". Not that THE most intence event just happened, but a serries of events is happening. And thats the stuff the watch. The repeted bombardment is whats dangerious.
Last Thursday, from soho. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>&g t;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>&g t;>>> Sputtering like a fuse (July 22, 2004)
The newest active region that has rotated into our view, AR 10652, is one of the largest and most active we have seen since the remarkable outburst of solar activity last October. The new region's size is unusual this long after the maximum period of solar activity in the solar cycle. Viewed from the earth with a filtered telescope, the most obvious feature of the active region is the large, dark sunspot, with an area about twenty times Earth's. One can even see the spot with solar viewing glasses even without any magnification.
When viewed as a video clip in extreme ultraviolet light, the region's true dynamic nature comes through strong and clear. Over three and a half days, the region blew off several flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs). More subtle but also very interesting is the continual activation, and frequent ejection, of magnetically confined plasma around the outside of the region (seen best in the close-up clip). Over the next week or so, this hot spot holds the potential for unleashing many more solar storms, some of which may be directed at the Earth. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>& gt;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>& gt;>>>>>>>>>>>
Yep, it looks like an earth directed CME happened today, but of course the data is all messed up. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/LATEST/current_c3.mpg
Art and Ed are talking Kill shots again.
Some reported SEEING the suns surface flaring brightly thru the difusion of morning fog.
From Jim M ..another comet from the south hit the sun on july 19 causing just one of the many flares we have been seeing (most are coming from other regions of the sun including sun spot 652) ... jim mccanney
what a fun solar system
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