Marcel de Bont Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Today exactly 10 years ago, giant sunspot group 486 rotated fully into view. This region was a huge sunspot group which produced some of the strongest solar flares ever recorded. One of them was a massive X28 solar flare on November 4th 2003.Sunspot group 486 was however not alone. Two other giant sunspot groups, 484 and 488, also produced some major flares. These groups launched some extraordinarily fast Coronal Mass Ejections and produced extremely strong geomagnetic storms here on Earth. Aurora was visible on latitudes as low as Texas in the United States and Portugal in Europe. This period will always be remembered as The Halloween Storms of 2003.SpaceWeatherLive celebrates this 10 year anniversary with a very detailed YouTube video about all the events that occurred in this period. We take a look at the sunspot groups, all the major flares and CMEs, and of course the geomagnetic storms... all in Full HD!Enjoy!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hABmdvKReNoSpecial thanks:Stephen Voss - www.astrokiwi.comDidier Van HellemontGraeme WhippsChristie PonderJim HendersonTodd LinleyJimmy WestlakeDave EwoldtLionel BernardiBob BelasPekka SakkiThad V'SoskeOthmar Seidner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Carl Gruber Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 A very big thank you to the entire SpaceWeatherLive team and all who were involved in the production of this video! It is an invaluable documentary of the events of October-November 2003, and a great teaching tool to show newcomers the nature of extreme solar activity and geomagnetic storm conditions. Great Work!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roan123 Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 Great video, but please be a bit more enthusiastic when you are telling this story, this was so terribly boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcel de Bont Posted October 25, 2013 Author Share Posted October 25, 2013 A very big thank you to the entire SpaceWeatherLive team and all who were involved in the production of this video! It is an invaluable documentary of the events of October-November 2003, and a great teaching tool to show newcomers the nature of extreme solar activity and geomagnetic storm conditions. Great Work!! Thank you Carl. It is great to hear that you (and many others from the Aurora Australis Tasmania Facebook group) enjoyed the video! Great video, but please be a bit more enthusiastic when you are telling this story, this was so terribly boring. Thank you Roan for your compliment and the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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