Photography
Related: About this forumWant to see the sunspots that sparked today's severe geomagnetic storm?
I took the photo at 12:40 today. The large spotty area at center/right is sunspot AR3615; the spot above it and to the right is AR3614. The two sunspots exploded in tandem yesterday, directing an X-class solar flare at Earth which sparked today's severe geomagnetic storm. X-class flares can trigger planet-wide radio blackouts and long-lasting radiation storms.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,638 posts)This is a superb photo, one that I greatly admire!
Well done.
Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)TeamProg
(6,143 posts)Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)ret5hd
(20,497 posts)signed,
Eric Trump
Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)Mama might've tried. Daddy always lied.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)... not a miracle maker, he won't be held responsible.
Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)Of course, they don't mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage, but that it should be hauled away as garbage.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,317 posts)HAB911
(8,904 posts)Great photos!
Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)Thanks!
calimary
(81,322 posts)You're right. It IS a goofy smiley on the face of the sun. Kinda off-center. Maybe the sun had a sheepish rendezvous with a passing comet and got found out?
marble falls
(57,106 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,261 posts)Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)I took a shot of Betelgeuse last night. It's about 700 times bigger than our sun.
marble falls
(57,106 posts)Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)What do Captain Kirk and toilet paper have in common?
marble falls
(57,106 posts)Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)calimary
(81,322 posts)I LOVE that joke!
Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)I first heard it back in the '70s.
calimary
(81,322 posts)GiqueCee
(631 posts)... I thought I felt something.
Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)GiqueCee
(631 posts)Grumpy Old Guy
(3,170 posts)Nicely done!
Did you use a solar eclipse filter?
Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)Yes. I ordered it to use on April 8 and have been having fun with it since it arrived last Thursday.
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,170 posts)They're a lot of fun.
surfered
(498 posts).,.looks like the one my doctor gave me after my colonoscopy 😁
Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)Did you sue for malpractice?
surfered
(498 posts)FirstLight
(13,360 posts)Wow.
calimary
(81,322 posts)But all joking aside, it IS a really remarkable photo.
Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)All the other regions have from 2 to 5 spots. A literal hot mess!
Some communications disturbance is likely beginning anytime from late Sunday 24th to early Monday 25th EST.
Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)I was hoping we might see an aurora here in South Central PA but it doesn't look likely tonight.
Pluvious
(4,313 posts)Fantastic picture btw, thanks for sharing !
( Not a good time to be at The Space Station !! )
Link to tweet
Mousetoescamper
(3,234 posts)And thanks for the link as well. I was hoping we might see an aurora here in South Central PA, but it doesn't look likely tonight.
William Seger
(10,779 posts)I took some pics today, but they weren't very good because of scattered light clouds. However, I got good enough images to compare the spots to yesterday, and it occurred to me that I could use them to estimate the sun's rotational period. I took the pixel width of the sun along the line the spots traveled as a diameter to estimate a circumference. I then measured the pixel distance the spots traveled and added 1/365th of the circumference to account for the Earth's movement in its orbit, then divided that into the presumed circumference. I got about 27 days. I then looked up the actual answer, and it turns out that since the sun is a ball of gas, the gas at the equator rotates faster than the gas near the poles. At the equator, it's 25 days, tapering off to over 30 days near the poles. The big spots appear to be somewhat south of the equator (we're seeing more of the south pole this time of year), so I'm pretty happy with my estimate.