THE SUN TODAY: 3 November 2011 - M4 Flare (plus!)

[KathleenMG1]

drkstrong - Thank you so much. I have never seen such beauty in the sun before. The combination of such beautiful music helps to see how amazingly gorgeous these natural occurrences are. My gratitude!

[drkstrong]

@KathleenMG1 You are welcome!

[Blazenresearcher]

I liked that little quiz, 2010-01-02 and 2012- 21-02...

[drkstrong]

@Blazenresearcher Ding! :) Buzz! :(

You fell into the US trap - I used the international date sytem YYYY-MM-DD there arent 21 months in the year!

[waterchildtera]

ed dames is right

kill shot is coming

i keep having the same dream over and over that the moon gets hit by something large and hard

shattering a big chunk off !

the earth gets hit !

i need a vacation

[TheColdfriction]

I miss your commentary doctor strong. Amazing video

[VibrationsfromMirror]

TY

[HonestJohn60]

Wishing you the best on your papers!! - If they get published anywhere on the net please let us know the links!

Peace Out

[drkstrong]

@HonestJohn60 I am hoping the journal will allow it to be posted on their website

[trademarc66]

Love that music. Is that the song from that Bugs Bunny cartoon? LOL j/k. Keep up the great work!

[skora11]

X-FLARE!!

[Mkey29]

Great videos thanks!!! An X flare a few minutes ago, probably 1339? Wow

[drkstrong]

@Mkey29 Yes, this will be fun

[eric0u812]

wonderful vid

love the song

[skora11]

Oh my 1339!!

[Valthepixie]

Next date 11-11-11. My son was born on 18-1-81 :) I cheated tho, had to look up what palendromic meant first. lolz

[drkstrong]

@Valthepixie You also used the US date system not the scientifc one and omitted the Century.

[Skyywatcher88]

Another M-class flare from the region, I'll bet it pops an X-class when its square with Earth...Thanks again for the post...Peace!

[drkstrong]

@Skyywatcher88 Still might but just prodiced the X

[collapseprep101]

I so enjoy this mans knowledge and efforts,,,, and choices of background music  Hey doc,, another question if you have time,,,, gravity I think is defined as a curve, or dip in the space time fabric, thus the moon is trapped in the curve of space created by the mass of the earth, my question is if this is so how does the moon have an effect on the oceans of the earth, how is it that they are moved to and fro if gravity is a curve in the space time fabric and nothing more, a curve in a curve?

[drkstrong]

@collapseprep101 An interesting question which is hard to answer in 400 characters. Ok push your fist into a soft matress & keep up the pressure. That forms a depression. Imagine that is the Earth's gravitational well. Now punch your other fist into the same matress nearby but not quite so hard, thats the moon. The depth of the depression represent the gravitational pull. Where the 2 depressions intersect the depression is deeper so water will be pulled towards it hence tides.

[vyperius]

that's a pretty one! :)

[docatomics]

...wroufff wof riff, wouf wuff !

~(TRANSLATATION outstanding doc, eye see !)

=if only we had another 199 or so of you cloned :)

[docatomics]

...good day solar buddies, chicken little seem to been in need of a bit of correction to yesterdays leading answer to the pop quiz, here is how it should have read

~so if eye may share a little scientifically baseless uneducated geomagnetic/plasma dynamic speculation before you & this fantastic audience doc ?

=...effect & upcoming correlation with object YU-55 (200 m) passing my Earth @ .86 LD on Nov 8 as we begin to cross threw the coma/debris trail of Comet Elenin, now enter huge Sunspot 1339

[hunt1803]

Awesome... love the music... what a gorgeous display at 1:27

[TODnMO]

Thanks Dr. K! Much love to you!

Yah bless

Tod

[Meggarea]

Ahhh...Perfect.

[Ouijeannette]

thank you once again!!

[Littlebirdie2010]

Wow! Great work, very exciting & beauiful images.

[DrakenI78]

i'm falling sleep, not because of the Vid, is cuz the Music so relaxing :-D .....Thanks for te update, BTW no clue about the Trivia i have learn something new today Thanks

[drkstrong]

@DrakenI78 Then it is a productive day already, and you can take the rest of the day off!

[JackVGallivan]

Beautiful

[jamchloe99]

Thank you. :)

[in8chro]

Hey, isnt this the music from Peter Wolf? brought back fond memories of watching Looney Tunes in the morning when i was a kid eating Fruity Pebbles.

[drkstrong]

@in8chro No it is from the Pier Gynt suit by Grieg and is entitled "Morning" - the problem it makes me want to go to sleep rather than wake up.

[in8chro]

@drkstrong HA!! i saw on the side bar who wrote it. that song was was used in Looney Tunes cartoons for Peter Wolf and it was also part of the Peter Wolf ballet (according to my wife). great work Dr. love the info. love learning and watching the weather on the sun.

[in8chro]

@drkstrong sorry, it was actually a Disney production of Peter and the Wolf. the song is somewhere in there, tried to post a link but it wouldnt let me. anywho, it really isnt important. have a great day Dr.

[WhackTheWax]

excellent video

Great trivia question although I did cheat and looked up palendromic. Learned a new word.  thanks

[drkstrong]

@WhackTheWax It is a good day then. Pity that the word is of so restricted use! :)

[FrankensteinFinance]

Thanks for the update i worked hard to find on youtube. It was well worth it.

[drkstrong]

@FrankensteinFinance I am glad you made the effort. Thanks

[ProphetChaser]

You are a better forecaster than most meteorologists.

[drkstrong]

@ProphetChaser I would agree with "luckier" in this case.

[mertronable]

I saw this and was so proud of myself lol ,looking at the data all day ,but of course my friends on my facebook page may be tired of my constant postings and saying what is this looks the same just a different color

[drkstrong]

@mertronable How can they tire of these beautiful images! They want more I am sure. I could ask the contractor to try different colours on differnet days (these colours were set back in the days of Yohkoh and SOHO as they worked for our colour blind Principal Investigator! :)

[mertronable]

@drkstrong and more pictures and data they will receive, they just need to look for themselves and they will be hooked .

[HarryP444]

if they don't pull the data from our view we should see some nice ones in the next couple days...big spot, wow

[drkstrong]

@HarryP444 Not body is pulling data - it is either there or isnt just a fact of life dealing with space data. After 30 years of dealing with this problem it no longer worries me in fact today we get about 90% of the data taken, it used to be nearer 50%. 90% is a dream come true - appreciate it.

[HarryP444]

@drkstrong so where do the missing hours go on the SOHO site? not deleted (or hidden) but never taken? i've seen as much as 28 of 48 hours missing there, and always during some kind of event...hmmmm

[drkstrong]

@HarryP444 Data can be lost in several ways. A problem with the instrument or spacecraft puts them in "safe hold" which powers down all non essentaial systems. Lately SOHO and SDO has been doing a lot of calibration runs (done regularly every 6 months) - check SDO is Go for details of things like that. Big solar storms (ironically) can cause the data to be scrambled during down link. Lastly if they cant get a groundstation contact then the recorder will keep on recording data, overwriting older.