Saturday, September 3, 2011

LASCO C2 - Solar Filament Eruption Friday caused CME not earth directed

Filament Eruption: A solar filament burst during the day on Friday causing a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) off the southeast limb. It does not look to be earth directed.



LASCO Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) is one of a number of instruments aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory satellite (SOHO). LASCO consists of three solar coronagraphs with nested fields of view...