SOLAR ACTIVITY UPDATE: Far and Near Side Eruptions (Jan 13th, 2012).

FARSIDE ERUPTION: On Jan. 12th, between 10:00 and 1300 UT, NASA's STEREO-Behind spacecraft observed a significant eruption on the farside of the sun. Although the blast was partially eclipsed by the edge of the solar disk, it nevertheless produced a long-duration X-ray flare (C3-class) detectable from Earth. A movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows some of the debris flying over the NE limb:



The blast site is only ~two days away from rotating onto the Earthside of the sun. By this weekend, we could get a direct look at the active region. Perhaps it will break the recent string of mostly quiet days and low solar activity.

Update: The partially-eclipsed C-flare was strong enough to make waves of ionizaton in Earth's upper atmosphere. This, in turn, disturbed the normal propagation of low-frequency radio waves over Europe. "The C3.3 flare on the far side of the Sun was picked up on my SID monitoring station," reports Dave Gradwell of Birr Ireland. "It affected the 20.9 kHz signal from FTA in France, just before the signal became unstable."

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[Skyywatcher88]

Interesting sun fact: The sun's core is so toxic, that if you could take one drop and put it here on Earth. There would soon be no living organisms for 100 square miles.

[Skyywatcher88]

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[curioushuge]

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[shaggietrip]

Great job skyywatcher88. Good to see some updates from you. thumbs up

[commandorando123]

Thanks

[61Omega]

Excellent video 10/10, thanks for the update....... :-)