Nice farewell flare. See you on the flip side 3664.

Farewell flare. Has a nice ring to it 🙂

There's also a CME associated with it, but the bulk of it seems to be heading west.

A true goodbye flare would be an X40+ flare XD

Should i be worried when this sunspot comes back about power issues or not?

Just now, danderson400 said:

Should i be worried when this sunspot comes back about power issues or not?

No

Well it certainly wasn't finished yet, another X

But you can see that it's starting to lose more area. 

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_4096_HMIBC.jpg

Edited May 14, 20241 yr by danderson400

26 minutes ago, danderson400 said:

But you can see that it's starting to lose more area. 

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_4096_HMIBC.jpg

It is decaying as it makes its exit. However, regions with lots of delta configurations can be persistent during their life cycles.

A sunspot region well deserving of a sunspot timelapse. Region 3664 may not have been the strongest region from what we have been able to see, but it is certainly the most complex region of the cycle so far, along with helping us get our first G5 storm of the solar cycle.

 

1 minute ago, Jesterface23 said:

A sunspot region well deserving of a sunspot timelapse. Region 3664 may not have been the strongest region from what we have been able to see, but it is certainly the most complex region of the cycle so far, along with helping us get our first G5 storm of the solar cycle.

 

Thank you for this Timelapse! ❤️ 

2 hours ago, danderson400 said:

But you can see that it's starting to lose more area. 

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/latest_4096_HMIBC.jpg

I would say that there is too much (and has been for the last 2 days) foreshortening to know how the deltas are holding up. Not really possible to know if it's decaying or not. Hopefully it decays a bit on the other side and then grow stronger again 😃

Edited May 14, 20241 yr by arjemma

5 minutes ago, arjemma said:

I would say that there is too much (and has been for the last 2 days) foreshortening to know how the deltas are holding up. Not really possible to know if it's decaying or not. Hopefully it decays a bit on the other side and then grow stronger again 😃

its flaring rn!

i think the record is broken  

What the hell lol

Just now, mozy said:

What the hell lol

?

Wow, X8.5 already! 

Edited May 14, 20241 yr by MeteoLatvia

There’s that X banger!!

Is it a true reading or is the sunspot too far around the limb already?

Expert senior region 3664 did X8.79. Come on go for X10 already!

Wow! If a strong CME launches with this flare, could earth get hit by part of it or is it too far west now?

1 minute ago, Peter Sedlák said:

Expert senior region 3664 did X8.79. Come on go for X10 already!

Already calming down, wouldn't expect it to hit X10

1 minute ago, Tyman said:

Wow! If a strong CME launches with this flare, could earth get hit by part of it or is it too far west now?

Should be too far west, glancing blow maybe

1 minute ago, MinYoongi said:

Is it a true reading or is the sunspot too far around the limb already?

Too few frames even from GOES SUVI, so can't tell, but I guess pretty close to correct values.

X8.79 solar flare, largest in 7 years, 17th largest solar flare ever recorded.

6 minuten geleden, MinYoongi zei:

Is it a true reading or is the sunspot too far around the limb already?

Well the limb flare X28 (with correction factor) was also just behind the limb but the loops still towered above the limb so still a lot of the X-rays could be measured. 

Just now, Vancanneyt Sander said:

Well the limb flare X28 (with correction factor) was also just begin the limb but the loops still towered above the limb so still a lot of the X-rays could be measured. 

thank you sander

but what does "begin the limb" mean exactly? sorry

2 minutes ago, Tyman said:

Wow! If a strong CME launches with this flare, could earth get hit by part of it or is it too far west now?

It's behind the limb so I think chances are... extremely low.