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Originally posted by lasvegasteddy
Originally posted by winofiend
While I'm not an scientist or an brain surgeon, I do have an idea. It's that this is not even that big looking.
I could be wrong, it's known to occur.
I think we'll be ok. As drastic as that sounds.
gave ya a star as you always seem to be a voice of reason
Originally posted by GArnold
Originally posted by lasvegasteddy
Originally posted by winofiend
While I'm not an scientist or an brain surgeon, I do have an idea. It's that this is not even that big looking.
I could be wrong, it's known to occur.
I think we'll be ok. As drastic as that sounds.
gave ya a star as you always seem to be a voice of reason
So your basically asking people to star and flag you? In two of your first four posts on this thread you do not mention the actual topic you seem to be concerned with "flags" and "stars". I am pretty sure yesterday was the 4th.. if something major had gone wrong with our Sun we would not have made it to the 5th. In fact I am positive of it. But yea please keep guessing blindly about something clearly you are not even close to an expert about.
Except it didn't.
like yesterday, with 1/3 or so of its light going off until there's none
Originally posted by CLPrime
reply to post by lasvegasteddy
The dark area is an area of relatively low activity from the Sun, combined with the fact that there is higher (brighter) activity in other areas. The brighter regions cause the lesser active region to darken (SOHO can't go brighter, so the non-bright areas go darker).
Here's a similar (though much smaller) darkening effect during a bright CME:
Originally posted by UnholyBones
I've seen this posted elsewhere as well. My interpretation of this anomaly is that there
is one huge sunspot on the far side of the sun right now.