17 July 2024

Solar Activity & SR

Space Observing System

It's been relatively quiet at the Solar-front compared to the X-epic month of May ~ we've only had 2 X-class flares so far in July with little severe geomagnetic storming. However, don't let these statistics paint a misleading picture ~ our Sun is still doing its thing, busy producing numerous C and M-class flares daily and sending Cosmic stuff our way that are not detected or read by existing devices.

Let's see some resources pertaining to the recent X-1.9 flare, which just occurred on 16 July.

Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun, Russia

The Sun Today

This produced CMEs that are heading Mars' way (click link below for video):

Gregorio M Vigilante del Sol

Radio blackout covered these areas:

SpaceWeather

Here's another look at that X-flare:

SpaceWeather

Meanwhile, let's see how the current SR (top of post) develops.

Namarie! 💛


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