C9.2 Flare: A small solar flare reaching C9.2 took place at 20:51 UTC Wednesday around new Sunspot 1297 that formed in the southern hemisphere. Keep an eye on this fast growing region for further activity.Faint CME: While watching the latest Lasco C2 movie you can see a faint but full halo Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) blasting away from the sun and a portion of it may impact earth. It appears that a majority of the material will sail wide. This took place during the early hours Wednesday morning.
Solar Update: Solar activity has been fairly low since the C9.9 Solar Flare around Sunspot 1296 on Monday. There will remain a chance for an M-Class flare around the region of 1295-1296.
A new sunspot that should be numbered 1297 is quickly forming in the southern hemisphere between regions 1287 and 1290. These spots will rotate onto the western limb by the weekend.
http://www.solarham.com/swpc.htm
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.
