Sunspot Activity

[kar999]

I think it's a false alarm. Nothing else is pointing towards any current activity. As you suggest 875 could possibly be the one to watch though.

[Mondy]

Crackling with C flares already..could be good 'un!

[NL]

Crackling with C flares already..could be good 'un!

Whats the chances ov this producing a strong aurora ..if so will it be seen from the UK

Edited April 26, 2006 by Northern Light

[Mondy]

Really far too early to say. It's got a beta-gamma-delta magnetic field which if erupts big time will produce x-class flares. Ideal, usually, for this latitude..

Google for spaceweather websites, there's loads...

http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/flare.htm

http://solar.sec.noaa.gov/today.html

Edited April 26, 2006 by Mondy the clumsy

[NL]

Cheers for that Mondy.. will check em out!!

[Mondy]

M1.3 flare occured recently...getting there

http://www.ips.gov.au/Solar/1/8

[kar999]

This one is still rotating towards Earth so plenty of time for it to develop and produce some nice big flares. (or decay )

(credit spaceweather.com & SOHO/MDI)

[NL]

Actually suprised that there is any significant sun spots at all since the sun is at its peak of low activity..

[shuggee]

Ah - but as kar and others will tell you (and told me!) we never know when the peak of the minimum is - until it has happened and we can look back...

[NL]

So really it looks like the peak(low activity) may have passed..????

[frogesque]

Spaceweather

"New sunspot 875 has a "beta-gamma-delta" magnetic field that harbors energy for X-class solar flares. Credit: SOHO/MDI. "

Whooohooo! Hopefully we'll get a good blast our way soon! :lol:

[Mondy]

Biggest flare for months recently occured :blink:

M 7.9 from 0876...(which now has a twisted field)

0875 looks like dying a death sooner than we think (field strength has weakened) :blink:

0876 isn't yet Earth facing (will be close enough soon), and it's growing(as of this post time) ! :lol:

http://www.ips.gov.au/Solar/1/2

Edited April 27, 2006 by Mondy the clumsy

[shuggee]

Oooooooooh - suddenly a KP5 out of nowhere... Will it be an upwards trend or back down to KP1...?

[kar999]

From spaceweather.com. Earth is inside a weak solar wind stream flowing from a coronal hole. The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) near Earth tipped south, opening a crack in Earth's magnetic field.

G1 Geomagnetic storm in progress. KP index is 5.

No chance of sightings for me this far South and plenty of cloud cover right now.

[shuggee]

'Possible ongoing storm' is the headline from Samnet... :o

[Mondy]

Minor storm at the moment. Aurora index is at 19..

But, it's raining :o

[summer blizzard]

I read that February only had ten sunspots, what is the number for March and April???????

[Mondy]

That'll be a smoothed (average) figure..

If you've got a calculator at the ready, you can work out the last few months too!!

http://www.wm7d.net/hamradio/solar/solar_values.html

April was a busy month considering the minimum is a) with us or b ) upon us

Edited May 8, 2006 by Mondy the clumsy

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

Look out for the northern lights tonight.

BBC local weather forecast said increased chance of seeing it tonight in northern england.

Also got a red alert e-mail from http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/.

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

Anyone see anything yet?

This webcam is a good place to see the northern lights, just waiting for it to get darker

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/europe...muir/index.html

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

Seems like nothings happening.

Just normal blackness here and the webcams which are usually good are showing nothing in the way of colours

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/europe...bcam/index.html

Well, off to bed, I waited up for nothing

[Gray-Wolf]

Seems like nothings happening. :lol:

Just normal blackness here and the webcams which are usually good are showing nothing in the way of colours

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/europe...bcam/index.html

Well, off to bed, I waited up for nothing :lol:

Looking at yesterdays readings it looks like it was a small (couple of hours) event that had ended before it got dark!!! Aint it always the way eh? be it meteors or Aurora's you just end up with a late night!!!

[Gray-Wolf]

They've given a 'heads up' on a CME heading our way, may be worth checking the readings after dark tonight (or looking North I guess!!!).

[shuggee]

Worth a heads-up today perhaps? KP5 atm. I like it when it's red...

[Mondy]

For the space weather folks, currently a minor storm under way. KP reached 5 earlier, but probably nothing for the UK i suspect..

...just to keep the topic/thread up to date, Kar..you've no idea how many times i check this thread, btw