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Related: About this forumWant to see the sunspots that sparked today's severe geomagnetic storm?
I took the photo at 12:40 today. The large spotty area at center/right is sunspot AR3615; the spot above it and to the right is AR3614. The two sunspots exploded in tandem yesterday, directing an X-class solar flare at Earth which sparked today's severe geomagnetic storm. X-class flares can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms.
CaliforniaPeggy
(152,301 posts)This is a superb photo, one that I greatly admire!
Well done.
Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)TeamProg
(6,630 posts)Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)ret5hd
(21,320 posts)signed,
Eric Trump
Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)Mama might've tried. Daddy always lied.
marble falls
(62,399 posts)... not a miracle maker, he won't be held responsible.
Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)Of course, they don't mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage, but that it should be hauled away as garbage.
marble falls
(62,399 posts)Qutzupalotl
(15,159 posts)HAB911
(9,365 posts)Great photos!
Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)Thanks!
calimary
(84,496 posts)You're right. It IS a goofy smiley on the face of the sun. Kinda off-center. Maybe the sun had a sheepish rendezvous with a passing comet and got found out?
marble falls
(62,399 posts)AllaN01Bear
(23,194 posts)Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)I took a shot of Betelgeuse last night. It's about 700 times bigger than our sun.
marble falls
(62,399 posts)Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)What do Captain Kirk and toilet paper have in common?
marble falls
(62,399 posts)Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)calimary
(84,496 posts)I LOVE that joke!
Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)I first heard it back in the '70s.
calimary
(84,496 posts)GiqueCee
(1,428 posts)... I thought I felt something.
Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)GiqueCee
(1,428 posts)Grumpy Old Guy
(3,576 posts)Nicely done!
Did you use a solar eclipse filter?
Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)Yes. I ordered it to use on April 8 and have been having fun with it since it arrived last Thursday.
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,576 posts)They're a lot of fun.
surfered
(3,503 posts).,.looks like the one my doctor gave me after my colonoscopy 😁
Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)Did you sue for malpractice?
surfered
(3,503 posts)FirstLight
(14,270 posts)Wow.
calimary
(84,496 posts)But all joking aside, it IS a really remarkable photo.
Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(3,854 posts)All the other regions have from 2 to 5 spots. A literal hot mess!
Some communications disturbance is likely beginning anytime from late Sunday 24th to early Monday 25th EST.
Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)I was hoping we might see an aurora here in South Central PA but it doesn't look likely tonight.
Pluvious
(4,758 posts)Fantastic picture btw, thanks for sharing !
( Not a good time to be at The Space Station !! )
Link to tweet
Mousetoescamper
(5,349 posts)And thanks for the link as well. I was hoping we might see an aurora here in South Central PA, but it doesn't look likely tonight.
William Seger
(11,072 posts)I took some pics today, but they weren't very good because of scattered light clouds. However, I got good enough images to compare the spots to yesterday, and it occurred to me that I could use them to estimate the sun's rotational period. I took the pixel width of the sun along the line the spots traveled as a diameter to estimate a circumference. I then measured the pixel distance the spots traveled and added 1/365th of the circumference to account for the Earth's movement in its orbit, then divided that into the presumed circumference. I got about 27 days. I then looked up the actual answer, and it turns out that since the sun is a ball of gas, the gas at the equator rotates faster than the gas near the poles. At the equator, it's 25 days, tapering off to over 30 days near the poles. The big spots appear to be somewhat south of the equator (we're seeing more of the south pole this time of year), so I'm pretty happy with my estimate.