Far-side Activity

[dynastyll]

I see some bright regions on the farside, but the one of concern is one at really low latitude, it's not a strong region but they are becoming extremely unlikely and according to seismic monitors for farside-sensing operations, it is showing up on them and I'm curious if it could potentially be one last gasp of SC24, or potentially the Terminator taking hold.

[Christopher S.]

28 minutes ago, dynastyll said:

seismic monitors for farside-sensing operations

Would you mind referring me to this info resource? I'd be curious as to how it works, and it would give me something to stare at for several hours.

[Vancanneyt Sander]

Not every bright region on stereo and some SDO imagery are sunspot regions. You also have plages on the Sun which are bright regions without sunspots and don’t have much activity.

looking at STEREO I don’t see anything bright at a high latitude (low latitude would be around the equator 😜).

the GONG far side imagery display the seismic signature of magnetic activity on the side of the Sun that we cannot directly see from Earth. But those images need to be taken with a grain of salt. looking at the most recent image there should be a possible sunspot region but I don’t see it on the STEREO images so it’s possibly just an error. We don’t use the gong map on SpaceWeatherLive as it’s just not that reliable 🤷‍♂️

[dynastyll]

1 hour ago, Christopher S. said:

Would you mind referring me to this info resource? I'd be curious as to how it works, and it would give me something to stare at for several hours.

Read into it, it's not 100% accurate obviously, but there's signatures on both models and theres a UV hotspot you can see from STEREO.

https://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/beacon/beacon_farside.shtml

http://jsoc.stanford.edu/data/farside/

1 minute ago, Vancanneyt Sander said:

Not every bright region on stereo and some SDO imagery are sunspot regions. You also have plages on the Sun which are bright regions without sunspots and don’t have much activity.

looking at STEREO I don’t see anything bright at a high latitude (low latitude would be around the equator 😜).

the GONG far side imagery display the seismic signature of magnetic activity on the side of the Sun that we cannot directly see from Earth. But those images need to be taken with a grain of salt. looking at the most recent image there should be a possible sunspot region but I don’t see it on the STEREO images so it’s possibly just an error. We don’t use the gong map on SpaceWeatherLive as it’s just not that reliable 🤷‍♂️

If you look at the equator on STEREO you do see a hotspot on their limb.

[Vancanneyt Sander]

2 minuten geleden, dynastyll zei:

If you look at the equator on STEREO you do see a hotspot on their limb.

Yes but on the GONG map it was a lot lower so that dot didn’t connect  

It’s good to see a bright area but still, it can be a spotless plage 🤷‍♂️ Videos of stereo should tell if there’s real flare activity going on indicating the region has sunspots. And don’t forget sunspot regions evolve and they can be faded away before even being visible from Earths viewing point. It gets interesting when it shows up near the limb, then it will get interesting.

[dynastyll]

5 minutes ago, Vancanneyt Sander said:

Yes but on the GONG map it was a lot lower so that dot didn’t connect  

It’s good to see a bright area but still, it can be a spotless plage 🤷‍♂️ Videos of stereo should tell if there’s real flare activity going on indicating the region has sunspots. And don’t forget sunspot regions evolve and they can be faded away before even being visible from Earths viewing point. It gets interesting when it shows up near the limb, then it will get interesting.

Not interested in the Earth-Directed portion of it, just what is happening in the whole scale of the solar disk. Curious if maybe SC24 is still chugging along with the new cycle trying to take over.

 

[Vancanneyt Sander]

10 uren geleden, dynastyll zei:

Curious if maybe SC24 is still chugging along with the new cycle trying to take over.

That’s not the case, it’s been a long time since we’ve seen a SC24 region and all regions of the last half year where SC25 regions. It’s just a slow start of the cycle and is nothing unusual.