THE SUN TODAY: 28 January 2012 - What a Week!

WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE SUN TODAY? (FULL SCREEN!)

WHAT A WEEK!

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http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/beacon/beacon_secchi.shtml
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/mpeg/
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[PhatPhat818]

whats up with the solarHAMdoTCOM. yesterdays said xclass flare...now it says mflare...yet the xray date doesnt match...

[drkstrong]

@PhatPhat818 They are doing something very silly. They are taking the maximum X-ray flux in the last 24 hours and calling that the flare. The X flare occured the previous day but when the date changed it was still at M level - hence the M flare designation. NOAA sometimes does this and they are slavishly follwoing along without thinking about it.

[iamours]

sharing it and adding the date correction to 2012 many thanks

[drkstrong]

@iamours Thanks for the catch on 2012 - I usually get used writing the new years date round about November! :)

[Valthepixie]

@drkstrong Vikings: I did say "discovered in the common era". lol

Abosoute evidence they found America 500 years before Columbus. There were lots of voyages by them, some are well documented, names and all. :)

youtube watch?v=Q4XjiUGZ0lw&feature=re­lated

[PhatPhat818]

@drkstrong was wondering what was going on. thanks doc. u da man.

[drkstrong]

@Valthepixie Actually Edison didnt invent many things - he commercialized other people's inventions usually after stealing them (Light bulb, the phonagraph, power distribution, movies, etc)

[drkstrong]

@Valthepixie The Vikings didnt discover North America - the people we call native americans did during the previous ice age.

[drkstrong]

@Valthepixie My point remain is that they drew this land mass as stretcching to the tropics in both the Indean and Pacific Oceans. That is a huge error in latitude (over 4000 miles!) If that is wrong everything else is wrong. They also used to draw sea monsters on maps - doesnt mean they were there.