Friday, September 16, 2011

Solar Update and Current LASCO C2 and LASCO C3 - Friday SEPTEMBER 16, 2011 AT 4:20 PM CDT


Solar Update: C-Class flare activity continues on Friday around Sunspots 1290, 1295, 1296 and 1297. There will remain the chance for M-Class flares throughout the weekend.

A new Sunspot group is forming in the southern hemisphere and should be numbered 1299 on Friday.

Sunspot Count: Because of the amount of sunspot regions on the face of the sun, the official Sunspot number count for Sept 15 is 167. This is a new record for Cycle 24 and beats the previous mark of 153 set on 4/13/2011.

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SolarMonitor, hosted at the Solar Physics Group, Trinity College Dublin and at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Solar Data Analysis Center (SDAC):

22 C-Class flares in 2 days:


11287 /C1.5(01:59)
C1.9(03:04)
C1.3(04:28)
11289 -
11290 C9.3(11:30)
C2.0(15:05)
11291 -
11292 -
11293 -
11294 -
11295 -
11296 C4.5(02:40)
C2.2(17:09)
/C1.4(10:55)
C3.0(16:18)
C1.0(18:27)
C1.3(20:32)
C1.7(22:46)
C1.2(23:07)
11297 C7.8(00:03)
C4.7(04:32)
C2.2(08:42)
C2.0(15:28)
/C4.6(00:24)
C2.3(02:41)
C2.6(21:09)
11298 -

Events not associated with currently named NOAA regions: C1.8(08:07)







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