04 May 2024

Solar Activity & Cosmic Payload

SpaceWeather

It's been a week of high-octane Solar activity all-round. And a Cosmic payload that had some serious stuff for this part of Space! This is related to what I described in my earlier post (here) about the locked-on grid. Details are still fuzzy and I don't have any further understanding or clarity about this yet, apart from what I had already written. But I'm pretty sure many felt this recent Cosmic payload ~ I'm assuming most of the following charts I'm posting here have some correlation to this.

On 3 May 02:22 UTC, we had a Solar Flare charting at X1-6 (main image above and image below):

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun

.....producing a radio blackout in the following areas:

SpaceWeather

A few days prior to this, we had an M9.5-class flare (30 April 23:45 UTC)....

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun
 

....followed by this giganormous CME on 1 May, which clocked a max speed of 7,257,600 km/hr:

SpaceWeatherLive

....and we had a geomagnetic storm:

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun


The magnetosphere is currently showing the highest density reading:

Space Weather Prediction Centre

 

SR is showing a lot of activity as well in the past week, with the latest readings looking like this:

Space Observing System

 Namarie! 🩵

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