Great Filament

GREAT FILAMENT: It's one of the biggest things in the entire solar system. A dark filament of magnetism measuring more than 800,000 km from end to end is sprawled diagonally across the face of the sun. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory took this ultraviolet picture of the structure during the late hours of Nov. 17th:


If the filament becomes unstable, as solar filaments sometimes do, it could collapse and hit the stellar surface below, triggering a Hyder flare. Indeed, part of the filament already erupted on Nov. 16th, but Earth was not in the line of fire. A similar event today would likely be geoeffective because of the filament's central location on the solar disk.



(spaceweather.com)

If nothing else, that's a great photo Owlsden. Any idea what "geoeffective" means. I'm guessing it's not too good for us if it heads our way.

Thank you for posting this Owlsden. I keep track of the daily solar activity on this thread. http://www.themistsofavalon.net/t3230p45-soho-lasco-c2-latest-image-9-21-11

However, I missed putting this there so here's a present.



SOLAR BLAST: A magnetic prominence dancing along the sun's southeastern limb became unstable on Nov. 15th and slowly erupted. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the event, which unfolded over a period of thirteen hours: The eruption hurled a cloud of plasma (CME) toward Venus. According to a forecast track created by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab, the cloud should reach the second planet on Nov. 17th. Venus has no global magnetic field to protect it from CMEs. The impact will likely strip a small amount of atmosphere from the planet's cloudtops.

Oh Thank you Carol. Your link showed me you had already posted the same. Apologies, I had not noticed. It's interesting though how minds can be drawn to similar interests. The Sun is a big interest of mine and I would like to remind those who may not know or remember that The Sun is our best friend and is not our enemy. The Sun is like a "food taster" and tastes the food like a Mother does before giving it to her child to make sure it is not too hot. If our internet goes down due to the Sun's blasts then I see this as an opportunity for our "inner net" to go up. Again, keep working on your psychic abilities to communicate with each other in times off "inter net". Don't forget to acknowledge the Sun. The Sun knows who we are. Enjoy yourselves a Sun shiny Day.

Sanicle wrote:If nothing else, that's a great photo Owlsden. Any idea what "geoeffective" means. I'm guessing it's not too good for us if it heads our way.

Solar and heliospheric geoeffective disturbances
N.U. Crooker 
Center for Space Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Received 27 January 2000; accepted 3 April 2000

Breathe Sanicle my Dear. The Sun works with us, not against us.