Just now, coinpeace said:

Interesting. These incoming ones look really promising on sdo already. Honestly feels like we may be at solar maximum this mouth or within the next couple months at this point. 

There is no telling really until after it happens

They're so pretty when they're on the limb 😍

29 minutes ago, coinpeace said:

They're so pretty when they're on the limb 😍

what a great picture ❤️ this is the best wavelength to look at for limb regions. i love it

5 hours ago, Misaka said:

Both continue to grow. Especially the left one. If I am correct, the left one now even has a small delta in the middle of the sunspot.

No common umbra so no deltas yet but it is growing fast. It also now has a number; 3676 and a β-γ classification so lets hope it becomes a flare and CME producer. 😎

8 minutes ago, cgrant26 said:

No common umbra so no deltas yet but it is growing fast. It also now has a number; 3676 and a β-γ classification so lets hope it becomes a flare and CME producer. 😎

The two umbras in the middle of the region were together a few hours ago. But unfortunately not anymore. It was only a very small delta. The region simply changes too quickly.

m2 from last night, not that strong of a flare, but it looks big👀

17 minutes ago, Del_Rio_4 said:

m2 from last night, not that strong of a flare, but it looks big👀

you mean the region?i wonder when we will start seeing it

15 minutes ago, MinYoongi said:

you mean the region?i wonder when we will start seeing it

yeah, that's what I mean. It seems to be about a day or 2 out from what I can tell.

1 hour ago, Del_Rio_4 said:

m2 from last night, not that strong of a flare, but it looks big👀

Yeah, that one rose up so fast I thought it might be putting out a CME at the time. Considering how far beyond the limb it is, I bet it had a fair bit more oomph than M2.

Edited May 12, 20241 yr by cgrant26

9 hours ago, MinYoongi said:

what a great picture ❤️ this is the best wavelength to look at for limb regions. i love it

Thanks lol and agreed, I just wish it was better at the stuff pointing at us heads on. This is my silly way of scouting the incoming regions, feels like you can see a big region a day early or so

6 hours ago, cgrant26 said:

Yeah, that one rose up so fast I thought it might be putting out a CME at the time. Considering how far beyond the limb it is, I bet it had a fair bit more oomph than M2.

I wish we could calculate occulted flares by measuring altitude of the flare then taking the latitude of the sunspot and using the average travel speed to find a rough estimate of the output.

8 hours ago, Misaka said:

The two umbras in the middle of the region were together a few hours ago. But unfortunately not anymore. It was only a very small delta. The region simply changes too quickly.

I believe a new one just appeared, but it's also small. Could disappear again.

18 minutes ago, Novarupta said:

I believe a new one just appeared, but it's also small. Could disappear again.

Since it's a named spot now and has a delta, I created a new thread for it here.

Edited May 13, 20241 yr by cgrant26

2 hours ago, coinpeace said:

Thanks lol and agreed, I just wish it was better at the stuff pointing at us heads on. This is my silly way of scouting the incoming regions, feels like you can see a big region a day early or so

I agree completely although I usually look at 131 Å but yours is definitely prettier!  Haha. Mike

There was another decent eruption around 09:30:00 5/14 near the northern hemisphere. A decent CME can be seen in coronagraph.

78, 80, 82 merge and eat that positive region? 5/1/1 testing my theory!

5 minutes ago, Helliarc said:

78, 80, 82 merge and eat that positive region? 5/1/1 testing my theory!

Can you maybe point out what regions you mean?

Can someone maybe explain to me how the regions on the east limb manage to do M flares. I learned they are magnetically complex but have no sunspots, but i dont really get it fully. 

thanks in advance..  

Current m appears to be from a newbie. I'm guessing this region isn't named yet? 

2 minutes ago, coinpeace said:

Current m appears to be from a newbie. I'm guessing this region isn't named yet? 

That should be old region AR3654

Yeah we have some activity on the eastern limb fingers crossed 

We reached X again, let's see if it's this one or AR3664 somehow again 😎

X flare from the eastern limb?

It should be from the eastern 

4 minutes ago, mozy said:

We reached X again, let's see if it's this one or AR3664 somehow again 😎

its this one

Yep

2 minutes ago, helios said:

Yep

If i remember right you used to post radio velocity stuff on twitter and very pretty sdo-videos  i miss it

how occulted is this flare? I think i got explained by marcel and sander once that eastern limb flares are usually not that occulted since we can see the loops good.