incredible bursts from sun

reply to post by posterboy


Roll maneuver? Does that mean they will point the camera away from the sun so we cant see anything? Because I wouldnt be surprised.

Originally posted by Acidtastic

Originally posted by Signals
OK....very basic sun question here-

How long does it take sunlight to get to earth?

If I remember correctly, about 4 hours.

But knowing me, I just made that up......

8 minutes for light, but sun flares can take a couple of hours.

reply to post by Signals


About 7 minutes, but particles and energy from solar flares etc take much longer because they don't travel at the speed of light.

I'm no scientist, but I know this much.

Originally posted by Copernicus

Originally posted by Acidtastic

Originally posted by Signals
OK....very basic sun question here-

How long does it take sunlight to get to earth?

If I remember correctly, about 4 hours.

But knowing me, I just made that up......

8 minutes for light, but sun flares can take a couple of hours.

I was going to say 8! (honest) *facepalm*

Thank you for the clarification.

(edit, I was going to say minutes aswell )

[edit on 26/10/2009 by Acidtastic]

Seems the site is back up...

sohowww.estec.esa.nl...

~Keeper

Funny, all the images have a time stamp of the 24th..

It seems NASA doesn't want us to see something today... or the roll is making things difficult.

~Keeper

Originally posted by tothetenthpower
Seems the site is back up...

sohowww.estec.esa.nl...

~Keeper

Realtime updates are not.

Im just waiting for questiongal to turn up with her "Repent the end is near" sandwich board

well that was wierd, guess they rolled it and did their thing, and now we get to look at the pictures.. odd timing though..

EDIT: nope the site is up, but no pictures or video yet.

[edit on 26-10-2009 by severdsoul]



Or Plucky's Panic Sex, ahhh Fresh Doom *lol*

[edit on 26-10-2009 by severdsoul]

Originally posted by apacheman
If you've been watching the sun images from SOHO, check out the latest images of LASCO C2 & LASCO C3:

sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

I've never seen such spectacular energy outputs, normally there's just sort of a set of small rays, nothing ever like this.

Before we get scared, what are your qualifications and experience with this?

For example, is "nothing ever like this" since you started watching last week? Or what. =)

thanks

I can't even search the archives for photos of today, at all.

Every other piece of the website works unless you are trying to get images from today.

VERY STRANGE!

~Keeper

The photo does look pretty crazy...



But I'm pretty confident that it looks like this because it was snapped during it's scheduled roll maneuver, and it snapped this while it was inverted or something.



[edit on 26-10-2009 by Paroxysm]

Originally posted by tothetenthpower
Seems the site is back up...

sohowww.estec.esa.nl...

~Keeper

Nope, that's the European mirror site I had posted earlier.......

Everything looks very normal and in real-time coming from both STEREO satellites:

stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov...

Sad no one grabbed a screen capture before it went off,
from the OP's post, i'm curious to see what its doing.
Hopefuly they will restore the photo's when they get it back online and we can see them.... or hey maby it will be to late by then *lol*...

BBQ anyone? *LOL*

As of 11:46am Pacific time, October 26, 2009, this site was still down:
sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov...

I got that URL directly from a link at nasa.gov (which is up).

Very strange, we start getting reports of crazy sun blasts and then they take down the website.

reply to post by Paroxysm


God that looks like a gamma ray burst from hell

reply to post by On the level


I think if that is real, we are pretty much going to have blackouts...

Good thing is the auroras will be easier to see....



[edit on 26-10-2009 by Copernicus]

reply to post by Copernicus


It could always be a massive lens flare from the rotation it's doing at the moment.

However, the website states the images would be inverted or side ways during the turn, and that one looks just fine.

Where is Phage when you need him? lol

~Keeper

reply to post by notreallyalive


I've been watching regularly for over two years now, and trust me, I've never seen such an image before. Anyone who's been watching for longer can correct me, but this was/is a pretty spectacular sight. I caught just before the site went down, i check it several times a day just to comapare with the magnetosphere images from here:

www2.nict.go.jp...

Not saying anything bad is happening, just that it's extremely unusual.