April Magnetometry so far....

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April Magnetometry so far....

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Quite an interesting month so far with a couple of fairly minor events:
An elevated solar wind speed on the 3rd-4th April resulted in some increased auroral activity as did a minor (G1) geomagnetic storm on the 7th-8th.

The visually dramatic AR2529 has been pretty quiet so far with just a few C1 flares (see below) and little significant activity is predicted in the near future :cry:
Tal60 Quark Grasshopper 2016 1004 1031 ut.jpg



Here is what my magnetometer has picked up:
Magnetometer April 2016.jpg



And a fairly poor animation of one of the C1 flares in AR2529 from 10th April:

10th-April-2016-Tal60-Quark.gif
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Good record! It's a big dinosaur of a spot!

What time did you do the flare animation? I have one in CaK that looks mighty similar...


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Cheers Mark - I'm sure Stu will have a better record but I was happy to see the trace bouncing around quite dramatically over the last few days.

Just checked my captures for the time-lapse sequence so ~ from 10.44 to 10.54 ut - or 11.44 to 11.54 am local time if you prefer.


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Woohoo! Same time exactly! Must have been the West Midlands Sunday morning gap ;)

Hopefully I should finish processing from this weekend later tonight and will get them up...


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It will be fascinating to see the same flare in CaK


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Nice work Mike :bow :bow :hamster: did you catch the storm last night?

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good work :bow2


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Very nice summary, Mike, combining magnetometry and imaging.

Rushing out to work just now, but I'll also check my data tonight.

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Here's the CaK equivalent of this event from exactly the same time :)

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wow what a shot !


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That's a fabulous CaK animation mate; really nice resolution as well as a great catch.

Must be pretty rare to have Ha and CaK animations taken at the same time and within a few miles of each other :seesaw


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