http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=34624
Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity
SDF Number 213 Issued at 2200Z on 01 Aug 2010
IA. Analysis of Solar Active Regions and Activity from 31/2100Z
to 01/2100Z: Solar activity increased to low levels. Region 1092
(N13E21) produced a long-duration C3/Sf flare at 01/0826Z. The flare
was associated with a Type IV radio sweep, an 890 sfu Tenflare, and
an Earth-directed full-halo coronal mass ejection (CME). A
disappearing filament (DSF) occurred during 01/0750 – 0811Z,
centered near N37W32 and time coincident with the C3 flare. The DSF
was associated with an Earth-directed partial-halo CME. No new
regions were assigned.
Excuse me while I back up everything on DVD and stock up on TP and ammo.
From Spaceweather.com:
In short, we have just witnessed a complex global eruption involving almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun.
A coronal mass ejection (CME) produced by the event is heading directly for Earth: SOHO movie. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when it arrives on or about August 3rd.
Be sure to check out the video.
In unrelated news of Space-Based DOOM, a significant fireball exploded over New Mexico. Also from Spaceweather.com:
Dawn came early to New Mexico on Saturday, July 31st, around 4:54 am local time when a brilliant meteor exploded near Santa Fe. “It turned night into day,” says amateur astronomer Thomas Ashcraft who recorded the fireball using an all-sky video camera: must-see movie. The movie’s soundtrack is the signal from a 61 MHz forward-scatter meteor radar also operated by Ashcraft. Ghostly echoes from the meteor’s debris continue long after the meteor itself explodes.
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Cool. Looks like the sky will be mostly clear Tuesday night as well (at least over my house).
I’m hoping we get some aurora from that eruption on the sun up here in North Dakota; it’s been a while since we’ve had a decent northern lights display.
BTW, you can make a whole-sky camera fairly easily by mounting a camera facing down at a well-polished chrome “Baby Moon” hubcap and putting the whole works on a elevated platform so it doesn’t turn into a “whole-curious cat” camera. 😉
Probably want one of those polished chrome spheres they use to create HDRI pans.
http://gl.ict.usc.edu/HDRShop/tutorial/tutorial5.html
Had me going Scott,
“C-class flares are small with few noticeable consequences here on Earth.”
back-up to DVD indeed.
-Gar.
What would the blogosphere be without over-reaction?
If the mainstream media can’t be bothered to learn even the basics of history, law, economics, engineering or physics, I think a little wild-eyed handwaving by the regular schmoes can be forgiven.
Besides, it makes things interesting.
Maybe we’ll see some aurora in IL. Doubt it, but you never know.
Behold the Aurora Forecast Webpage:
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/aurora_predict/worldmap6.html
The aurora are expected to be occurring over the next 48 hours according to the NBC Nightly News
Nothing visible from here last night; we’ll see if tonight is any better.