Unusual large dark area at south pole of sun
In the last few days the sun as developed a rather large dark area at it’s south pole. Interestingly enough there are no sun spots in this area. It is…
Category Archives: Space Weather
NOAA to Launch New Space Weather Satellite this Month
(NOAA) – The Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), scheduled to launch in five weeks, will give forecasters more reliable measurements of solar wind speed, improving their ability to monitor harmful…
Dark River on Face of the Sun
The sun has been awash with activity recently with X Class events, flares and an extremely active sun spot which has cause a significant increase in space weather and alerts….
Sun Says “Look Ma, No Cavities”. Almost No Sunspots
As you can see from the latest sunspot image above there are almost no Earth facing sun spot at this time. The only remaining sunspot is AR2113 and it is…
Strong Solar Xray Event Exceeds X1 3/29/14
SUMMARY: X-ray Event exceeded X1 Begin Time: 2014 Mar 29 1735 UTC Maximum Time: 2014 Mar 29 1748 UTC End Time: 2014 Mar 29 1754 UTC X-ray Class: X1.0 Optical…
Geomagnetic Storm (G2) Predicted, Auroras as low as New York
Update 2/14/14 – A series of CMEs will be hitting earths protective magnetic field an may put on a good show for Aurora watchers. NOAA forecasters estimate a 75% chance…
Many Sunspots, Solar activity could increase
There are 10 sunspots in the view of Earth right now. This is the most we have seen in some time and could be an indicator of near term solar…
Great Amateur Image of Sun During X Class Events
This image was captured on October 26th by Astronomer Paul Stewart Sun in Hydrogen Alpha and White Light Sunspot AR1882 (lower left) is being very active, releasing a X1 and…
