From: Coral Clark (coralc@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 19:45:26 PDT
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:45:26 -0700 From: Coral Clark <coralc@exploratorium.edu> Subject: Here Comes the Sun! Message-id: <p04320402b7d59fe0b909@[10.0.1.47]>
Thought that I would pass this on!
>2001 sep 24
>This morning at 1038 UT a powerful X2.6-class solar flare erupted near
>the large sunspot 9632. A radiation storm is in progess and
>intensifying.The explosion also hurled a lopsided halo coronal mass
>ejection (CME) into space. The Earth-directed CME will sweep past our
>planet late Tuesday or Wednesday and probably trigger geomagnetic
>storms. Sky watchers could spot auroras during the nights ahead.
>_____________________________________________________
>RICK BALDRIDGE writes:
>
>Storm comes from a nice naked-eye sunspot group. A Big Bear Solar
>Observatory photo of the sunspot group can be seen at (21k):
>http://www.bbso.njit.edu/Images/daily/images/wfullb2.jpg
>
>The 1st SOHO image showing the Coronal Mass Ejection coming towards
>Earth can be seen at (51k):
>http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs_tiny/20010924_
>1118_c3.gif
>
>A whole TON of energetic particles hitting the SOHO coranagraph
>detectors 8 hours after the event can be seen at (51k):
>http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs_tiny/20010924_
>1818_c3.gif
>(O.K., not really a TON if you're think of MASS!)
>
>An Ultraviolet image of the flare taken from SOHO can be seen at (51k):
>http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs_tiny/20010924_
>1025_eit_195.gif
>
>Auroral activity can be found at:
>http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/index.html
>
>If auroral activity occurs in the next few nights, you might get some
>real-time images from the Mt. Wilson CONCAM which caught the large
>display back in March by going to:
http://concam.net/mw/
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