Solar Update: Solar activity has been fairly low since the C9.9 Solar Flare around Sunspot 1295 yesterday. There will remain a chance for M-Class activity around this region.The solar wind is decreasing and geomagnetic activity is returning to quiet levels.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/today.html#xray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASCO_Large_Angle_and_Spectrometric_Coronagraph
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.
