Solar Flares

LUNAR ECLIPSE - This morning, June 4th, the full Moon will pass through the shadow of Earth, producing a partial lunar eclipse visible across the Pacific side of Earth from Asia to North America. In the United States, the event is visible during the hours before sunrise on Monday morning. The eclipse begins at 3:00 a.m. PDT and reaches maximum at 4:03 a.m. PDT with 38% of the Moon's diameter in shadow.
SOLAR TSUNAMI: New sunspot 1496 unleashed an M3-class solar flare on June 3rd at 1755 UT. A powerful solar tsunami issued from the blast site. "This was a great solar event! The blast wave sparked powerful radio emissions as it plowed through the sun's atmosphere, and I recorded the sounds using my shortwave radio telescope." The explosion also hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. The cloud does not appear to be heading for Earth, although this conclusion could be revised by further analysis. (photo/video)

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Peter

News just in!!!!!

A month out of date now

SOLAR ACTIVITY INTENSIFIES - Huge sunspot AR1476 is crackling with M-class solar flares and appears to be on the verge of producing something even stronger. The sunspot's 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field harbors energy for X-class flares, the most powerful kind. Earth is entering the line of fire as the sunspot rotates across the face of the sun.
Solar radio bursts are caused by plasma instabilities that ripple through the sun's atmosphere in the aftermath of powerful flares. "The strongest burst so far occured around 1631 UT on May 9th... I am hearing more bursting, indicating powerful magnetic dynamism within active region 1476." With AR1476 poised for more eruptions, this 'radio activity' is likely to continue for days.
Sunspot AR1476 is so large, people are noticing it without the aide of a solar telescope. The behemoth appears at sunrise and sunset when the light of the low-hanging sun is occasionally dimmed to human visibility. Caution: Even when the sun is dimmed by clouds and haze, looking into the glare can damage your eyes. Looking through unfiltered optics is even worse.

A solar wind stream hit Earth's magnetic field during the late hours of May 8th, stirring geomagnetic activity and auroras at high latitudes. A pair of CMEs en route to Earth could add to the effect of the solar wind stream, igniting even brighter auroras during the next 24-48 hours. NOAA forecasters estimated a 40% chance of geomagnetic storms on May 9th.

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Peter

Thanks for this Peter, where do you manage to get this info from?

Violet wrote:Thanks for this Peter, where do you manage to get this info from?

http://globaldisasterwatch.blogspot.co.uk/p/2006-disasters-from-july-to-december.html

Also from the NASA website.

I never pass on unless NASA has covered the same theme.

Peter

Thanks

CHANCE OF FLARES - NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of M-class solar flares today as a phalanx of sunspots turns toward Earth. The most likely source of eruptions effecting earth is sunspot AR1504, which has grown into an active region almost 10 times wider than Earth. Crackling with low-level C-class solar flares, a phalanx of sunspots (1504 - 1507) is turning toward Earth.

Highest-energy Light From A Solar Flare - During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the HIGHEST-ENERGY LIGHT EVER ASSOCIATED WITH AN ERUPTION ON THE SUN.

Wednesday June 13 2012



Peter

Large asteroid to race by Earth - A newly discovered asteroid the size of a city block will zoom past Earth but poses no risk of a collision, astronomers said on Thursday. The "UNUSUALLY LARGE" asteroid will not be visible to the naked eye, but asteroid enthusiasts could watch it pass by during a live online broadcast from an observatory in the Canary Islands at Slooh.com beginning at 8 pm (0000 GMT on Friday).
NASA has already catalogued 9,000 such Near-Earth Objects, but astronomers are always on the lookout for new ones. "Once in awhile one will come out of nowhere like this one, which is actually pretty big. We were like, 'Wow, we should track this one.'"The asteroid, named 2012 LZ1, is thought to be about 500 meters (1,650 feet) wide, and is expected to pass within 14 times the Moon's distance from the Earth.
The massive object was discovered just days ago. The asteroid qualifies as a Near-Earth Object because of its size and proximity -- more than 500 feet (152 meters) wide and within a distance of 4.65 million miles (7.5 million kilometers) from Earth.

Friday 15 June 2012



Peter