What Happens in a Solar Flare? Sunspot Update - A CME Took Place

    Solar activity increased a bit yesterday. Today its quiet so far but with the active regions on the disc
  we expect more flares during the next days.

    We noticed a CME today on Stereo images. This CME was not earth direced. It will not effect us in any way. Source was a eruption on the farside.

Active Regions Incoming + New Sunspots

 

   Solar Activity Update:

23:30 UT

What a day....

Here is the latest Solar Activity update video :)

We had a M Flare, numerous sunspots emerged and some active regions are  rotating in..and we also have some nice Prominences on the disc!

M1.4 Solar Flare Today From Incoming Region

                                                         

    We have another long duration event. The flare from the active incoming Region on the east limb is still in pogress as you can see and reached now a M flare!

             

We have a M 1.4  today peaking at 13:18 UT from the actice incoming Region on the east limb

   This flare ended up topping out at a M1.4

   

Sunspot Update , Disturbance + Solar activity

 
    We need another Update one reason is the fresh numbered Region 1396. Its rapidly growing, as we can see on the posted vid below.  The Region to the southeast we talked about this before, will  get numbered soon (possible 1397). And a new Region close to the south of Region 1395 emerged. And finally we can see the active Region which produced the long duration flare on SDO images. Its just behind the east limb and will rotate in soon.

Solar Update Jan. 13th 2012 - New Sunspot + Prominence

 
    The new Sunspot to the east (close to 1395) gets numbered over night as Sunspot Region 1396.

We noticed some changes at Region 1391. There was a quick development in the southern part of the leading spot section. We can also see that the magnetic structure formed as well. Reporting Soleninfo  a chance of  M flare is given from this region.

Region 1395 decayed a bit and produced a C 1.5 at 00:58 UT. Another flare comes from that incoming region which produced the  long duration flare yesterday. A new Region emerged to the southeast.

Prominence Lift Off on the North Limb, CME

UPDATE 23:30 UT

What a day. After this long duration event we notice a pretty new one.

We have a large filament lift off  to the north limb

Latest SDO AIA 304 Helioviewer:

http://helioviewer.org/?movieId=N4315

This produced a CME as we can see on STEREO:

Solar Flare Update - Jan. 12, 2012

   Solar Update 13:50 UTC

We had another climb in the Flux chart. This time it peaks at 13:23UT as a 

C3.3 Flare

   Located at Sunspot Region 1393

LMSAL changed also the Region ( long duration flare )1393 to N30E87 : http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/last_events/gev_20120112_0754.html

   We have a Vid of the latest CME and the long duration C Flare. This confirms the possible Location just behind 1395. And the latest Sunspot Update

Sunspot Activity Update for Jan. 10th 2012

  
    We noticed some significant Solar change over the last time. Sunspot Region 1391 increased in magnetically complex to a  Beta-Gamma type group. Region 1393 grows again a bit in size, from 250 to 520 millionths but lost a little penumbral area and displayed so far no significant changes otherwise. Region 1389 was quiet and rotates to the southwest limb and will be soon out of view.

    Solar activity was quiet so far. We had a C 1.0 from Region 1393 and a small B 7.1 possible from 1391.  The coronal hole (CH492) in the southern hemisphere is still in Earth facing position. There is a new in the northern hemisphere(CH493). This could rotate into an Earth facing position on January 12. In cause of the Earth facing position from CH492 weak effects from CH492; unsettled intervals on January 12-13 are expected.

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Sunspot 1395 Faring , and another farside event

Solar Update   22:30 UT

For now we didnt noticed any CME of this event.

Latest SDO AIA 304 CLOSE UP:

http://helioviewer.org/?movieId=tH315

You can see another eruption right before the flare from region 1395 took place and the ejection.

Latest SDO AIA 171 CLOSE UP:

http://helioviewer.org/?movieId=zH315

 

 

New sunspot says hello with a nice flare

Region 1395 knows how to say "hello"

A  C2.6 peaks at 20:16 UT

It seems to be from Sunspot Region 1395 but as we observed the result was maybe from a Region which is closely behind SunspotRegion 1395.

Latest Stereo EUVI  195

New Sunspot, Prominence & Flare

   We talked about this yesterday  in the early morning^^

The new Sunspot Region which rotates into view from the east limb gets numbered as 1395 and looks quiet so far

   Sunspot Region 1393 continues to grow and increased in size 100 to 250 millionths, its now a DKI type group

Solar Activity Update for Jan 8th 2012 - 22:38 UT

   Hi,
Solar activity is still quiet. We had some small C Class Flares most of them from Region 1393.

But also 1389 was flaring a bit and will soon rotate from the visible disc.

http://www.lmsal.com/solarsoft/last_events/

Region 1393 grows again a bit and the Region next to it, Region 1392 disappeared

 

 

Finally Some Solar Activity

UPDATE 06:40 UTC - JAN 8TH



Earth is to the Left in this image



There was a  large gap in STEREO data, but it is now updating. The 1st images get see show that there was a large CME on the farside (non earth facing side) of the sun. Here is the 1st image we see after STEREO started updating again





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We Are Expecting A CME Arrival Today

As reported on Jan 6th by IWTB, we are expecting a glancing blow from a CME today.
Click here for IWTB's origonal report:  IWTB SolarWatch Update Jan 6th

 Here is a update from spaceweather.com about this expected CME:
" INCOMING CME? A magnetic filament in the sun's northern hemisphere erupted on Jan. 5th and hurled a CME in the general direction of Earth. At first it appeared that the cloud would sail north of Earth and completely miss our planet. Subsequent work by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab suggests a different outcome: the CME might deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field on Jan. 7th"
credit:  http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=07&month=01&year=2012

Keep an eye on the NICT for the arrival
click to view the nict simulation model

Solar Flare Chances Increase



Forecast is updated each 2min



We have increased chances of Solar Flare activity from sunspot region 1391 as it rotates into a more Earth directed position. Region 11391 [N13E27] developed slowly and was mostly quiet. A weak magnetic delta structure could be forming to the north of the leader spot. 

Credit: http://www.solen.info/solar/

Solar Activity Update for Jan. 6th 2012

GoodMorning,
after all this action yesterday solar activity is nearly quiet. First some news  to the latest events yesterday.

We  remember the  large filament eruption to the north of region 1392 was recorded as a long duration C2.1 Class event peaking at 12:38 UTC.

So the main core of the associated CME will not reach Earth but STEREO imagery and also ISWA CYGNET STREAMER shows us  that the outer edge of the CME could hit us:

You have to click on it!

Solar Activity Update for Jan. 5th 2012 Pt2

Okay finally we have some pretty action,
We had another C Flare, this time from Region 1392
                                                                          

Flare of class C2.1

1392

11:51:00

12:38:00

13:00:00

but most of interest in this event is a large filament eruption (north) close to this spot!

A mid duration C Flare caused this

Solar Activity Update for Jan. 5th 2012

Hi All,

solar activity was quiet yesterday only 2 C 1 class solar flares took place.

This morning we had another C1.9 flare peaking at 0722 Universal time from region 1390

Active region	Begin, UT	Max, UT	End, UT
Flare of class C1.9            1390	07:01:00	07:22:00	07:43:00