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Solar X-rays:
Geomagnetic Field:
From n3kl.org
This just kicks ass. There have been some serious solar storms since the weekend and we can expect more over the next couple weeks. If you have a really good welder's filter or filters you got for the August 1999 eclipse but didn't use because the weather was crap, bring them out of storage because there are some pretty cool sunspots visible right now. The sun will look about like the Hawaii observatory photo at the bottom.
There's also a chance that people as far south as continental Europe may see an aurora in the next few nights, weather permitting. One thing that makes this activity unusual is that it's about 2 years past the peak of the sun's 11-year activity cycle. The storms aren't huge, but they've got people (i.e., hopeful solar scientists) talking about the massive 1859 storm that shorted out telegraph wires across the US.
Here's another good page with information and pretty pictures. |
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