06 November 2023

Solar Activity

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There was a very marked energy (and physical?) shift on 3 November, and I could feel it on my skin. It was like having an ion storm bombard the body for a good several hours. Not fun at all, but otherwise tolerable. Some head pressure but nothing severe ~ I had to remind myself to maintain electrolyte levels. 

When I checked the charts on 3 November, they did not yield any visible recording of Planetary energy fluctuations but then by the next day onwards, they started to register.

Laboratory of X-ray astronomy of the Sun

The top main image shows "STEVE" (strong thermal emission velocity enhancement), and this from SpaceWeather.com:

NOT ALL THE LIGHTS WERE AURORAS: At the apex of the storm, bright lights danced across the skies of northern Europe. Not all the lights were auroras. "To our utter amazement we observed a striking phenomenon," reports Martin McKenna of Swatragh, N. Ireland. "It was STEVE!"


A lot of field disturbances:

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And this clocked 1953 km/sec! (That's 7,030,800 km/hr....)

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Comet ATLAS C/2024 G3

SpaceWeather It's another ATLAS Comet, this one is named C/2024 G3. From the footage above, we see our Sun beaming generously into the d...