incredible bursts from sun

Some other pictures from other instruments, but judging from previous images for this instrument, this looks to be normal.







[edit on 26-10-2009 by Copernicus]

What do you mean it looks just fine? Looks inverted/rotated to me.

Look at how LASCO C2 normally takes images:



Do you see how the light is bleeding out horizontally? That is how they all normally look.
For the Light to be bleeding out vertically would mean that SOHO is in the middle of it's scheduled roll. It is probably extra bright/blurred due to all the motion.

We don't need Phage to use our logical thinking skills on this one.

And again, everything looks just fine/normal on both STEREO satts:
stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov...

[edit on 26-10-2009 by Paroxysm]

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I guess we will have to wait and see what's going on. What do you think? You seem to have some expertise, at least more than I do lol.

Is that solar flare? CMI?

What would the reprocussions of something that big be?

~Keeper

I have to agree, i'm not a steady watcher, but i pop over there every so often for the past couple of years, just to see whats going on when im bored, and i gota say it looked very unusual.
I'd wish we had a clue as to what it translated to.
Had more of the regulars in here that knew more about it all.

at worst, major black out, power failure etc..
at best, nasa goofed and got a funky image..

or anywhere in between..

i know i dont have the expertise to say either way.

definatly a unusual image thats for sure.


EDIT:
Paroxysm that makes sence....

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The images posted above in green as well as the red one on the previous page point to something very strange.

The one you posted is fine, and I was not referring to the roll. The others however are very strange, care to explain those?

~Keeper

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Any chance this is what you are refering to?

Nasa captures giant eruption on the Sun.

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No, we are reffering to today's images..

That's a big one though...

~Keeper

GOES X-ray flux going up.. about to hit a class C flare...

www.swpc.noaa.gov...

spaceweather.com...


Pretty!

Xray flux measurements went from B2 to to B8 in just a few minutes and appears to be rising fast:

www.swpc.noaa.gov...

The scale runs A-B-C-M-X with 9 steps in each. M-class and X-class Xray bursts can be damaging, knocking out satellites, etc occasionally.

This updates every 5 minutes, so worth keeping an eye on for the next hour or so.

C1 now....2 steps higher in 5 minutes

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I've been looking at STEREO and SOHO sites/recent-images daily (and archive images), for a number of months now.

Both of these images look completely normal, and nothing coming from the STEREO satts right now look abnormal at all:

From October 24.

I agree. I looked through the history of pics as well and they look normal.

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Well that's nice to hear in any case. It would not be nice to have something major with the sun occur. Still strange that the website is down though..

~Keeper

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Interesting. good catch!

Probably due to that new sunspot which has been growing for a few days now:

spaceweather.com...

I can't wait for SOHO to finish up with maintenance, so we can see how big this sunspot is now.

C-class flare occurred yesterday, and are predicted to persist for the next 24 hrs:
spaceweather.com...

Just for reference, for those who don't know, from spaceweather.com:

The Classification of X-ray Solar Flares
or "Solar Flare Alphabet Soup"

A solar flare is an explosion on the Sun that happens when energy stored in twisted magnetic fields (usually above sunspots) is suddenly released. Flares produce a burst of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to x-rays and gamma-rays. [more information]

Scientists classify solar flares according to their x-ray brightness in the wavelength range 1 to 8 Angstroms. There are 3 categories: X-class flares are big; they are major events that can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms. M-class flares are medium-sized; they can cause brief radio blackouts that affect Earth's polar regions. Minor radiation storms sometimes follow an M-class flare. Compared to X- and M-class events, C-class flares are small with few noticeable consequences here on Earth.

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SOHO back up:





sorry, but these are definitely not normal images.

edited to, hopefully, embed properly

[edit on 26-10-2009 by briantaylor]

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No, they're not normal, they were taken while the sat was rolling and in motion. Wait for them to take another few over the next hour.

Here is a recent photo of that growing Sunspot which is causing these C-Class solar flares:

Just had another C1 x-ray flare a few minutes ago.

www.spaceweather.com...