Well guys, I wasn’t going to be posting this morning, but upon seeing that we had an XClass Solar Flare last night, preceded by 4 MClass flares in the last 72 hours….. I dropped everything to write this up.
Beyond the 4 MClass and 1 XClass flares in the past 72 hours, we’ve also had two filaments rip off, both releasing CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejections). The last CME should give Earth a glancing blow on the 15th of this month.
The XClass flare last night- X 1.7 was a huge visual display (that someone captured on their personal telescope- image below), created a very big R3 radio black out on the sunlit side of earth when it happened. The CME from this flare will NOT be Earth facing, not even a glancing blow.
We currently have 8 active regions that are Earth facing and two more regions that are now rotating into view- one of those regions is where the XClass flare came from last night.
UPDATE!!!! We just had another MClass flare a few moments ago!! An M 1.3 flare- I do not have details yet and will post them when I get them.
Below are some of the images and info from www.solarham.com
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Lucas 2012 Infos 