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Ah, yes, famous IMG_2108.webp ;)

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It could be the heliospheric current sheet and the change in direction of the IMF? @Jesterface23 @Philalethes

Simultaneous events appear at the same time in the blue rectangle, forming sunspots, while in the red rectangle they disintegrate:

Bt 1 y bz 0 Things seem to be very quiet.

I think you're correct. Speculating that it'll intensify along with 14312 re-emerging, based on an ongoing larger magnetic reconfiguration taking place in the suns closed field in that area. Carefully hoping this is the start of a new period of instability 👀

Filament eruptions toward the eastern limb:

Was looking at Raben. We might have a new region on the limb currently.

C. Long. Latitude Phase-shift Prob. Effective-Area Date-of-return Front-side-number 2.160000 6.892103 -0.147014 80 115.344002 20251220 NOAA 14302 276.480011 -11.536959 -0.146651 80 116.639999 20251227 NOAA 14296 283.679993 -16.260204 -0.247871 100 211.895996 20251226 NOAA 14294 293.760010 -8.626926 -0.147878 81 76.463997 20251226 New CMEs on the far side of the northern hemisphere:

Unfortunately it’s at the limb of disappointment, but at least we have next week to look forward to while it either builds or expires. 😊. Nice job btw @Jhon Henry Osorio Orozco several people sent me stuff on the farside eruptions. Honestly, after being disappointed so many times by seeing epic spews farside I almost wish I didn’t know. 🤣🤣🤣

As analyzed yesterday in relation to activity in region AR 4307, given that minor solar flares in the photosphere triggered the activation of filaments, an M 1.0 class event has been recorded in the area today. This indicates that, if it continues, the area is gradually increasing in complexity.

LMAO!

A friend of mine made this from photos he took with an IP camera over one full night. I think it turned out pretty good. Unfortunately, like many others, I have bad weather.

Areas that are about to emerge from this distant limbo, observable from our planet:

Further back, solar flare activity and some coronal mass ejections can be observed. Engraved with the SDO AIA 131 angstroms. https://helioviewer.org/?movieId=jQ8Y5 , AIA 171 angstroms SDO:

Please, do not die. The pics are very underwhelming. Just a few colorless streaks in the sky. If I did not know they were connected to the earlier auroral display, it would "delete" "delete" "delete" in my camera, LOL

I'm dying to see your pictures of this. I've been so busy I haven't been able to get out to take any pictures since November.

yes, you are right. As moon was rising from the east pre-dawn hours, this worked out well to blend the meteor composite with the moonlit FG.

So, pointing more or less to northeast?

Thank you for the links. Last night, I hopped into my car and drove to a spot with fewer clouds and took some pictures of the phenomenon myself. The curving bands seemed quite stable in time. The bands appeared white in my pictures (on the LCD screen) rather than pink (as in Katahdin's stream). They were fainter than a typical auroral display. I will analyze the shots I took to see if there is any structure or color in them. This explanation from the second paper you linked seems the most plausible / compatible with my observations and Katahdin's stream: "their likely source is the auroral illumination of pre-existing gravity waves structures". In other words, they can be pink, during a substorm when the reds are bright or greenish / whitish when the aurora glows in greens only. And it is entirely possible that we are looking at two similar looking but different phenomena.

Further back, a more active area with a plasma jet can be seen: Deep observation in H-Alpha of the active region AR 4307, in terms of flares, is actually very low. However, in the deepest layer of the photosphere, flashes are observed that have generated the activation of small and medium-sized filaments, as highlighted by the colored arrows. The active region AR 4307 shows a CME, and then a moderate-sized flare emerges in the area. It is not very high, but the area indicates the possibility of more activity perhaps later on.

well ARs 4298-4296-4294 return in about 7-8 days and by the cmes it should still be active so the lull shouldn't last much longer hopefully we are still a long ways from being done with this SC the next 3-4 years could be awesome.

Analysis of activity by the CME: A decrease is observed, but activity continues for the time being.

When reviewing the activity front our planet, it can be seen that the formation of sunspots is currently in decline:

Yeah. It may regenerate hopefully though. We also have some hope incoming in the SH. The SDO movies could be really entertaining sometimes when they were calibrating or whatever. The sun would do a full somersault. 😊