Sun Watch Thread!!!

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Holy cow :O looks like were being hit pretty hard just now !!

I wonder if it will amount to anything?

Holy Cow is about right. Whats going on about now?

With this pressure and density...

Will I be able to see the borialis(spelling?) in the North UK?

reply to post by UKWO1Phot


It's not pressure which creates aurora. It doesn't look like you have much chance.

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Here is a good link for you:

This web site allows you to monitor geomagnetic activity in real time, and will let you know when aurora may be visible from the UK.

www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk...

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Thanks for the quick reply Phage..

Was going to go out and find a N facing vantage point..

Originally posted by Free4Ever2
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Holy cow :O looks like were being hit pretty hard just now !!

I wonder if it will amount to anything?

Int the first pic top left,,,, why are the red and blue lines crossing each other instead of flaring up like some of the other pics? Is that an indication of the poles flipping or getting ready to flip?

this thing is a major x class right now!!!!! looks like the magnetosphere is holding on pretty good.. but if you look its getting close to the earth and the plasma tail is burning up behind it. lets hope it keeps takin this beating or we will be in some major trouble.

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I lost track of this thread...what's going on? what did I miss?

look here!!!

its not looking too good at all is it? i mean im no expert or anything.

Bud damn that looks like its not supposed to look like that .

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Also the x ray flux has completly flatlined over the past few hours

www.swpc.noaa.gov...

sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...



[edit on 9-7-2009 by Free4Ever2]

Well...I don't usually keep track of the sun or anything like that so these charts don't really make sense to me. I don't know the difference between normal, and abnormal...so in words...what's up? Is this why I've been fighting a head ache the past two days? just curious..I rarely get head aches like this.

no not at all.. if you look at the graph to the top right you see in front of the earth if that touches the earth in the graph that means it penatrated the magnetosphere and its gonna start fryin stuff.. one good thing im noticing is its not very dense.. kind of like a sand storm with heavy winds but not much sand.

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You have it reversed. The speed is low but the density is high. Its a lot of sand being tossed gently.

It should be noted that the pressure scale tops out at 3.6 nPa. Pressures of 5 nPa are not unusual. As cool (or scary, depending on your point of view) as the pressure display looks right now, this is not a major event.

This was a major event.
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[edit on 7/9/2009 by Phage]

my bad...your right(of course) the way the surface is heating up i have a bad feeling the velosity will pick up...i think it is causing the crazy weather staring to happen right now.

Well...I hope it's NOT a major event...I'm not fond of those lately.

I have also had a headache, which is very unsusual for me, could that be from the solar activity?

know way to know forsure.. but not much is hitting the earth if any right now. most of it is being deflected.

Originally posted by Phage

 

Pressures of 5 nPa are not unusual.

How about 9 or 10 nPa (which is where we are at now)??



Even in the solar storm examples which they show on the site:

www.swpc.noaa.gov...
www.swpc.noaa.gov...

the Pressure is topping out at where we are right now....Except we are not having a solar storm right now...

I don't understand. Why's the pressure remaining so high right now?

[edit on 9-7-2009 by Paroxysm]

you quoted me on that when it was phage that wrote that just so you know!