Not one but two HUGE SUNSPOTS

Just at your location

I meant the graphic showing the N & S field lines

look at that filament crackle!

shit's brewing

tomorrow should be a great day for space weather data collection

It's cookin somethin up.

Off for the night now unless anything major goes down I'll be back to check in bright & early.

The sun has already displayed a quad pole reading this lasr year...

Nothing. Pretty much going to mark the end if this solar max cycle.

[link to spaceweather.inf.brad.ac.uk]

58% chance of X Flares....

Nice catch. Keep in mind it updates every 2 minutes and the percetages can change significantly.

I don't like this...

When do we get updated images?

Just by refreshing, I don't think it's automatic.

Happens all the time and no doom occurs

Its looked the same for the past 4 hours?

If you read below the graphic, it explains how it gathers data to obtain the percentages.

[link to sidc.oma.be]


INFO FROM SIDC - RWC BELGIUM 08 Jan 2013, 1155UT

Solar activity is expected to reach eruptive levels, with C class flares likely. There is a risk for a M class flare from NOAA AR 1652. Geomagnetic activity is expected to be very quiet for the next 48 hours.

OTERIA Flare Predictor Tool 2.0
[link to sidc.oma.be]

But the spots have not moved since this thread opened.

The graphic updates every 15 minutes. Sometimes, only the UTC time stamp changes. The probabilities are overestimated when the sunspot is on the side of the disk or is not entirely visible. Similar process occurred with the Dec. 15 "huge" sunspot.

[link to www.solarmonitor.org]

Events not associated with currently named NOAA regions: /C2.1(01:17) C1.5(02:57) C1.8(07:18) C1.3(13:57) C1.3(14:17) C1.4(16:01)

Note: The tabulated data are based on the most recent NOAA/USAF Active Region Summary issued on 9-Jan-2013 00:30 UT , the values to the right of the forward slashes representing yesterdays values or events. Regions with no data in above property fields have decayed and exhibit no spots. The region positions are valid on 9-Jan-2013 02:00 UT .

so did NASA really crash those 2 into the moon before christmas, or did they loose control of the and thats where they ended up?

For example, the source above has a current 0% of x-flares, though I am not sure how often it is updated. So I don't know about that 58...

today with the aid of my diddums < i blow glass and a uv number 6 shield no telescope i viewed a spot on the sun,i phoned a friend and in dis belief told him what i thought i was looking at with my bare eyes,,i told him it had to be the size of jupiter,,with greater dis belief he told me there were 2 sunspots the size of jupiter on the sun developed within the last 14 hrs..after watching the moon show up late this weekend and knowing now for the first time in 200 years the farmers alminak is wrong and now the appearance of these spots i am getting the picture of how senator jim davis can tell me the govt expects 3/4 of the planet to be dead before spring..brown dwarf g 1.9 turned our moon upside down in 2010 and it has been spinning at 180 degrees nightly in our sky for 3 years fluxuating rise points by 40 degrees in every 3 day period. the mayan calendar clearly states it marks the season of the return of our binary sun not the end of the world,but now im beginning to wonder about jim davis being right.

Yes they have a little bit.

[link to sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov]

More info on Jim Davis please. Do u have a link.

Can anyone is here give us an idea of how things will go down if both of these sunspots put out an X? And maybe even the most important things to do right after it happens?

It ALL depends on the resulting CME, iregardless of the size of the flare, if indeed there is any flaring at all.

first, turn off your computer.
second, duck inside a faraday cage.

[link to nationalsurvivalcenter.com]