Near M-Class Flare: A solar flare approaching M-Class status (C9.9) took place at 20:54 UTC Monday. The source is a new group of Sunspots and magnetism numbered 1295 which is currently rotating into view on the Northeast limb.
Solar Update: Sunspot 1283 which was the source of all the flare activity and the cause of the Geomagnetic Storm on Friday is now located on the western limb and out of direct earth view.
Many new regions are popping up all over the visible solar disk, including newly numbered regions 1293, 1294 and 1295. Currently Sunspot 1289 remains the largest of all visible sunspots. There will be a chance for C-Class flares and perhaps a risk of an M-Class event should any of these Sunspots continue to develop.
Solar Wind: The Coronal Hole Solar Wind stream is currently over 600 km/s and this is helping to stir up minor geomagnetic activity at high latitudes. This may persist over the next couple of days. Be on the lookout for Aurora if you are very high in latitude.
Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 12 September 2011
LASCO Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
