17 minutes ago, MinYoongi said:

why?  

Well I actually went to 3663 ( N) and rechecked the leading spot!   Haha no kidding.  Relieved that I wasn’t going nuts I went back to 3668 and looked at what it was that @tniickck was bringing up regarding its explosive growth, agreed and noted SWPC hadn’t tagged it as a BGD yet.  

Looks like a Fish 

3 hours ago, MinYoongi said:

which one? i cant keep up lol!

No problem, I sometimes can’t keep up either lol

https://gyazo.com/f2adb315614cf964f876200556876bd7

https://gyazo.com/4729663b08dae1d70e92de376b5ede2f

I know 3664 has exploded since those screenshots, but the delta is the one that’s the highest

14 minutes ago, Open said:

Looks like a Fish 

It does!  - or the initials CL - or rotated clockwise 60°, omega Ω

As if to confirm all of this SFI was over 200 at 23:00 last night and presently:17:00 utc 197.  Rockandroll   Just one more maddening but humorous note: my six metre ground plane antenna just bit the dust.  Oh well with six metres wide open now an inverted Vee should work at twenty feet. Edit. 20:00 SFI 204. .  
adjusted if ya care: 207.   Note: this is why predicting anything is so doggone hard.  USAF is still the best imho but conditions on our sun change rapidly and seemingly mysteriously.  General trends are pretty simple as we have 24 cycles to view, but short term?  Good luck with that! Just my opinion here 

Edited May 7, 20241 yr by hamateur 1953
Antenna demise afterthoughts

12 minutes ago, hamateur 1953 said:

As if to confirm all of this SFI was over 200 at 23:00 last night and presently:17:00 utc 197.  Rockandroll   Just one more maddening but humorous note: my six metre ground plane antenna just bit the dust.  Oh well with six metres wide open now an inverted Vee should work at twenty feet. 🤣🤣

oh no! hope its not expensive to replace?!

Nah homebrew ( which is probably the reason for its death tbh). Haha 

FYI, don’t bother using your eclipse glasses to see 3664….  I tried an failed. 

2 minutes ago, MinYoongi said:

oh no! hope its not expensive to replace?!

 

4 minutes ago, hamateur 1953 said:

Nah homebrew ( which is probably the reason for its death tbh). Haha 

i always thought its expensive to get lol

8 minutes ago, MinYoongi said:

i always thought its expensive to get lol

I’m an anachronism. Build a lot of my own stuff @MinYoongi haha. Clearly didn’t use enough heat for good penetration on a silver braze.  No biggie nobody hurt or electrified no problem. More spare aluminium  tubing for next year. Haha 

6 hours ago, WhereingtonEvent said:

FYI, don’t bother using your eclipse glasses to see 3664….  I tried an failed. 

@WhereingtonEventI was able to see it this morning with my eclipse glasses quite easily. In my experience ~500 MH sized alpha spot can be seen. If the spot is not compact, usually about 600-700 MH is needed to see it.

Edited May 8, 20241 yr by Sapphire828
Removed duplicate post

Is this the first X-Class flare of the region cluster?

1 minute ago, Jesterface23 said:

Is this the first X-Class flare of the region cluster?

Nope, northern one again 😁

1 minute ago, mozy said:

Nope, northern one again 😁

Ah

48 minutes ago, Jesterface23 said:

Ah

It decided to give us an M3.4 at least. It's in prime position to disappoint haha

Here we go

Big flare possibly? 131A shows something moving too but gotta wait more frames

Edited May 8, 20241 yr by SamDieGurke

9 minutes ago, SamDieGurke said:

Big flare possibly? 131A shows something moving too but gotta wait more frames

Keep me updated !:) good morning guys

Slow rising flare nearing X-class with a CME launching, interesting

Edit: Reached X 😎

Edited May 8, 20241 yr by mozy

5 minutes ago, mozy said:

Slow rising flare nearing X-class with a CME launching, interesting

Edit: Reached X 😎

Where can i best see the CME?

1 minute ago, MinYoongi said:

Where can i best see the CME?

I mean most wavelengths on SUVI is showing it well currently, but 131A and 195A for this one.

1 minute ago, mozy said:

I mean most wavelengths on SUVI is showing it well currently, but 131A and 195A for this one.

131A is always tricky to me. i prefer to use 195  131 is very "oversaturated" and i find it hard to make out details, at least on my phone. whats your opinion so far?

Oh this one actually looks promising, seems to go directly towards us too judging by SUVI alone, gotta wait for LASCO though?

 

Edit: ok 195A actually Shows slight dimming to the south only but hey.

Edited May 8, 20241 yr by SamDieGurke

Just now, MinYoongi said:

131A is always tricky to me. i prefer to use 195  131 is very "oversaturated" and i find it hard to make out details, at least on my phone. whats your opinion so far?

Well usually that is the case, but It's showing really well on this 131A too, atleast it looks decent for now.