It looks like our parent star fired off a big M-class flare a few hours ago. Shows up quite clearly in the GOES satellite X-ray flux measurements (and spaceweather issued an alert as well); so I'm assuming it's AR2786 that's the culprit here (and hence probably earth directed).
A long shot; but anyone managed to capture anything (cloudy here)?
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Re: AR2786 M-class flare
It wasn't AR2786 apparently (and hence also not earth directed), but rather one of the AR's on the sun's rear side (from our perspective).
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Re: AR2786 M-class flare
Brian (Mapleridge) sent me a picture of post flare loops on Whatsapp to torture me this afternoon so I guess he caught this. I look forward to his post
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Re: AR2786 M-class flare
Thanks for the heads-up Jochen and exactly as I thought would likely occur this weekend.
No doubt radio-communications around our globe will know all about that event...
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No doubt radio-communications around our globe will know all about that event...
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Re: AR2786 M-class flare
I got the spaceweather alert on my phone.
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Re: AR2786 M-class flare
Indeed Jochen, it certainly does seem that the 2785/6 AR's were not the culprit for this flare, rather an oncoming AR over the border.
Which of the two oncoming AR's in the S.East can't be certain, but either-way was quite a CME to say the least.
Attached images from STEREO with an 8-hour difference might answer which was responsible.
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Which of the two oncoming AR's in the S.East can't be certain, but either-way was quite a CME to say the least.
Attached images from STEREO with an 8-hour difference might answer which was responsible.
Cheers
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Re: AR2786 M-class flare
There have been a few pics of the post flare loops - I hope to see some more here.