NEW CME/SOLAR FLARE ENROUTE FOR JAN 24/25, 2012

[Joe-Nathan]

WELL HERE IS ANOTHER CME ON THE HEELS OF YESTERDAYS FOR JAN 24/25, 2012.
FROM SPACE WX.COM

RADIATION STORM IN PROGRESS:

Solar protons accelerated by this morning's M9-class solar flare are streaming past Earth. On the NOAA scale of radiation storms, this one ranks S3, which means it could, e.g., cause isolated reboots of computers onboard Earth-orbiting satellites and interfere with polar radio communications. An example of satellite effects: The "snow" in this SOHO coronagraph movie is caused by protons hitting the observatory's onboard camera.

NEW FLARE ENBOUND:
ALMOST-X FLARE AND CME (UPDATED):

This morning, Jan. 23rd around 0359 UT, big sunspot 1402 erupted, producing a long-duration M9-class solar flare. The explosion's M9-ranking puts it on the threshold of being an X-flare, the most powerful kind. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the flare's extreme ultraviolet flash:






The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft detected a CME rapidly emerging from the blast site: movie. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab say the leading edge of the CME will reach Earth on Jan. 24 at 14:18UT (+/- 7 hours). Their animated forecast track shows that Mars is in the line of fire, too; the CME will hit the Red Planet during the late hours of Jan. 25.

This is a relatively substantial and fast-moving (2200 km/s) CME. Spacecraft in geosynchronous, polar and other orbits passing through Earth's ring current and auroral regions could be affected by the cloud's arrival. In addition, strong geomagnetic storms are possible, so high-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras

[Squirrelmonkey]

Stupid zombies and their CME's

[dkmac]

Aurora pics from Saturday:



More shots: http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...h?ocid=twitter

[Joe-Nathan]

FROM YESTERDAYS SOLAR/GEOMAGNETIC STORM:

[kobayashi]

WELL HERE IS ANOTHER CME ON THE HEELS OF YESTERDAYS FOR JAN 24/25, 2012.
FROM SPACE WX.COM

RADIATION STORM IN PROGRESS:



NEW FLARE ENBOUND:
ALMOST-X FLARE AND CME (UPDATED):

I like that graphic of the Heliosphere!