Solar activity

Pretty significant full Halo cme visible on lasco imagery around 0300utc, my assumption is that this is on the far side and heading the opposite direction?

around May 20th 2-3UT there is a large body appearing in front of the sun almost covering it entirely, I assume this is Mercury but just thought it was interesting and wanted to share.

it seems that the polarity of the areas is starting to reverse.

Hi! I've been following the forum for a while to try to learn (I'm learning from 0 🙈) and for me it's all still confusing. I would be grateful if someone could explain to me in a simple way (or tell me where I can find information about it) how can I differentiate between an eruptive and impulsive flare? Does it have to do with the duration of the flare? Thank you!

Looks like it got its own designation; as @mozy remarked upon here and as I mentioned in this post, this looks like a reverse polarity region (anti-Hale region). Might be promising for activity considering all the surrounding regions as well. Here's a cropped version of the lapse focusing only on it:

Okay so i only recently started to keep an eye on these readings. The overal average seems quite high. Is there a rational acceptable normal level. I seem to recall it barely being 15GW per Hemisphere a year or so ago.

Looks like the last almost-M-flare (C9.6) from this region was somewhat eruptive.

Edit: Peaked at M2.42 after this image. Here is a self-updating view for visual aid:

This region has been growing rapidly, quite close to another AR (13285). Right now it's developed a very noticeable delta, albeit still not a very big one. Something to keep an eye on, I suppose.

That region just fired off a small M-Class flare. Looking at SUVI it looks very eruptive! Any Opinions? @mozy @Sam Warfel @Jesterface23 Oh, it could be 3281 instead of the Region i named this topic after. Please correct this if it turns out this way @Vancanneyt Sander :x Sorry!

I've read and see a lot of articles about a Solar event that is supposed to happen the 23 april 2023, a Big geomagnetic storm but i don't know what to think of it, is it just Fake news or exagerated ? I check Space weather.com and i didn't see anything special, Can someone tell me more about this ? Thanks you in advance

This is perhaps an even more interesting region. Looks like there are a couple of small deltas here, one negative spot sandwiched between two positive ones, and then another small one close to these: I believe the last two M-flares were both from this one, and it's been producing a fair amount of C-flares too. It's also quite close to the equator, for what that's worth, at around 10-12° N.

Looks like a tiny delta: Not a lot of flaring, only some C-flares lately. Soon gone anyway, but worth nothing along with the rest of the recent uptick in activity.

The CV-Helios Network have performed sunspot classifications since 1981 and are always in need for new observers. The CV, or Classification Values (you can see a sort explanation on thi site at: https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/help/the-classification-of-sunspots-after-malde.html) build on the Zürich/McIntosh-system that has been used worldwide since 1972. It was built on the old Zürich-table that consisted of 7 letters but was modified by Dr Patrick S. McIntosh. The CV-observer classify every sunspot region on the solar disk at one day, and each classification has a specific number according to the CV-table that goes from 1 to 60 in value. In other w…

Not sure which number this one's getting, but it already did an M-flare within a day of rotating into view, so it's already deserving of its own topic in my book. Looks powerful from the flux signature as well, doubt any potential CME will be Earth-directed at that angle, but will be interesting to see if anything happened. It was also flaring a lot in the C-range immediately upon becoming visible.

This AR looks like an interesting development, with that C-shape, and I see what I think is a potential delta spot (merged penumbras). Starting a topic for it, since I hope to see some activity from it! (Resolution is poor, be sure to go look at the originals if you’re interested)

If a plage develops sunspots and becomes an active region, does it keep the same designation or does it get a new one? I always assumed it would keep the same designation, but I don’t really know.

Not sure if 1/4th detection data is also blank, or if this is just a frame I am lucky enough to be seeing live or what not. But glad to see our Sun is eating Ghost Flares I guess? :-) Or... 1/4th of the Solar Flare visual data has been Redacted? ha!

Hey guys, do you think this farside CME came from AR2356? It was the most active region as it left the disc and this looks closer to the west limb but I have trouble telling. What are your thoughts?

Hey guys, have a question about this tweet from Space Weather Watch. I have not seen anyone else make this prediction about this CME. Everyone else I’ve seen has claimed it to be a miss and just wanted to know if anyone else agrees

If Solar Flares are classed A, B, C, M X, what would be the class of normal sunlight. Looking at the graph, I suppose normal sunlight would be like C.0 Class. Is this true? Another question: When there is almost no activity and the graph drops down to Class B or Class A, what is going on to cause this? Using the familiar SolarHam.com display with some callouts.

This region is right now flaring in the M-class or it might be a region behind this one. Either way I thought I would create a topic for it as I think it is a interesting region. Will be fun to see the magnetic classification when it has rotated in more.

So the sun spot pair just below at to the left of 3256 has no number yet it is apparently adding to mix of the three presently numberd spots why and can it be numbered for future reference.

It's juts gigantic, is that normal ? Are we facing Bad news ? It's look so much Big

First: I'm not sure of this AR's number as SWL has it unnumbered but on the SWPC synoptic map it has the number 3258 so that's what I'm calling this post. Any mod or admin can change the topic name. This AR produced a beautiful CME while it was flaring in the C-class around 16 UTC today. The sun spots look really tiny on the HMI Intensitygram (as of now... or I'm blind haha) but it sure seems to have some activity going on.