What's this huge 'light beam' on SOHO??!!, page 1

Anyone seen anything like this on SOHO before?
Any ideas what might have caused it?



sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

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Ok, perhaps I am asking a stupid question here, but SOHO says

"List of summary images for July 3, 2004
There are no images available for this date."

sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

The date on the above image shows 2004/07/03..so where is it?

I can't even find the image unless I click on the link

[edit on 3-7-2004 by NetStorm]

Try this link.
sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

Shows all the frames

Originally posted by baked
Try this link.
sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

Shows all the frames

Coool..thanks...wierd how it says there are no images for the 3rd...yet there they are...go figure..

have a funny day and a safe 4th

Here's a site with alot of wierd pics from soho!!



museum20000.homestead.com...

Another oddball picture here, a little different from the normal streaks...



sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

Look at how many "comets" SOHO has found;
sci.esa.int...

James McCanney ( a"renegade" Astronomer/Astrophysicist, like me) has also done some good work on it;
www.jmccanneyscience.com...

I saw these also and was very curious. I check SOHO images daily (I know, I'm a dork). And I mentioned in another post how very weird it was that:

1) They decided to do a CCD Bakeout during June - the most active month for metiors/asteroids.

2) At the same time Spaceweather.com was pointing out high sunspot activity, the potential for X-class solar flares and intense solar winds from two coronal holes.

3) The SWAN images which normally are posted every 2-4 days had nothing from 6/19 through 7/2 (and this is the comet tracking map).

4) Now that Swan is finally back up take a look a the pretty little (not) meteor shower. (wonder what we missed)




5) There was one day (sorry can't remember the date anymore but I also posted this in another thread) that the LASCO 3 showed what looked like a significant solar flare but the LASCO 2 images for the same time period were not there. The images for that date were there but the several hours where LASCO 3 looks to be ablaze - there are no LASCO 2 available for comparison.

I could go on and on - but something is amiss. Even if this weird streak turnes out to be a technical glitch - we are not getting all the info from NASA. What are they hiding from us?

Just one more thing I find very odd about SOHO images.....now I realize that there must be some techincal process through which these images must go in order to get the great depcitions we see. However, if you look at the index of the files for the SWAN images (and I bet for most of the various types of images) you can see that there seems to be no pattern to the date they are "last updated" other than the fact that when there appears to be very interesting things happening the updates happen frequently and considerably after the date the images were supposedly taken. Just check out this list - look at the "last modified" date, then click on the image and see the date of the image. Now also compare the modificaton dates throughout the list - they jump back and forth in time. Meaning they are consistently updated XX number of days after the image is taken. But rather some groups are updated all on the same day, some images that were taken later in time have a more recent modification date than some that were taken after that time. OK - I'm talking myself in circles, but just check out the list. HERE

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