Sun Watch

[Cornbread714 Profile]

http://theufologynetwork.freeforum.ca/viewtopic.php?p=3031#3031

In today's example you can clearly see the difference between a digital glitch and a true anomaly. The real deal is on a 45 degree angle and the error is a straight line. So what are we looking at on the 45 degree angle?

http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin ... length=171

I have to agree, it doesn't look like a glitch.

[Truthwillout Profile]

http://theufologynetwork.freeforum.ca/viewtopic.php?p=3031#3031

In today's example you can clearly see the difference between a digital glitch and a true anomaly. The real deal is on a 45 degree angle and the error is a straight line. So what are we looking at on the 45 degree angle?

http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin ... length=171

I have to agree, it doesn't look like a glitch.

were is ALADIN he must know what this is????

[Ziggy Profile]

I picked the real out of the two as well! may be helpful in figuring out whats what!

[Reinaul Profile]

ziggy!! glad you're back !

[Kingz Profile]

Some more footage from that strange filament which is described on the previous page!


http://www.spaceweather.com/submissions ... ejqilr5lv2
Jo Dahlmans
Image taken:
May. 18, 2010
Location:
Netherlands
Details:
Image was taken with Coronado PST.


http://www.spaceweather.com/submissions ... 204173.jpg

http://www.spaceweather.com/submissions ... 204173.jpg
Ingmar Glass
Image taken:
May. 18, 2010
Location:
Germany, Bavaria, München
Details:
The western prominence is growing and the dark filament has rotated into the sun. A quite good sight. The picture was made with Lunt LS35 and DMK41.

http://spaceweather.com/


I love it when amateur astronomers can catch these beautifull pictures... this proves yet again that we don't have to rely only on NASA & Co.

[Ziggy Profile]

ziggy!! glad you're back !

Hey thx Reinaul. You brought a big smile to my face!

[Kingz Profile]

SPACESHIPS IN THE SUN:
Last Sunday, May 16th, in the blue skies of Spain, a pair of tiny shadows flitted across the sun. Astrophotographer Theirry Legault and his telescope were in the countryside outside Madrid, and this is what they saw:



"It was a solar transit of space shuttle Atlantis and the ISS," says Legault, who traveled from France to witness the event. "The time was 13:28 UT, about 50 minutes before docking. Atlantis had just begun the 'R-bar pitch maneuver'--a backflip that exposes the shuttle's heat-shield to the crew of the ISS for inspection."



Because of the high orbital velocity of the ISS, its occasional transits of the sun last no more than a split-second (0.54s in this case) and require considerable skill to catch. "I stationed myself near a small town named Saelices in a quiet area with nobody around," says Legault. "I prefer to be alone because I need the concentration!"



NASA's shuttle program is coming to an end later this year, and Atlantis is making her final scheduled voyage. For this reason, the STS-132 mission patch shows Atlantis heading into the sunset. There is, however, a possibility that Atlantis might fly again. If so, make that sunset a solar transit.



http://astrosurf.com/legault/iss_atlant ... _2010.html

http://spaceweather.com/

[Ziggy Profile]

SPACESHIPS IN THE SUN:
Last Sunday, May 16th, in the blue skies of Spain, a pair of tiny shadows flitted across the sun. Astrophotographer Theirry Legault and his telescope were in the countryside outside Madrid, and this is what they saw:



"It was a solar transit of space shuttle Atlantis and the ISS," says Legault, who traveled from France to witness the event. "The time was 13:28 UT, about 50 minutes before docking. Atlantis had just begun the 'R-bar pitch maneuver'--a backflip that exposes the shuttle's heat-shield to the crew of the ISS for inspection."



Because of the high orbital velocity of the ISS, its occasional transits of the sun last no more than a split-second (0.54s in this case) and require considerable skill to catch. "I stationed myself near a small town named Saelices in a quiet area with nobody around," says Legault. "I prefer to be alone because I need the concentration!"



NASA's shuttle program is coming to an end later this year, and Atlantis is making her final scheduled voyage. For this reason, the STS-132 mission patch shows Atlantis heading into the sunset. There is, however, a possibility that Atlantis might fly again. If so, make that sunset a solar transit.



http://astrosurf.com/legault/iss_atlant ... _2010.html

http://spaceweather.com/

Wow...Those photos are amazing!! Are we sure they're real? lol

[Kingz Profile]

Seems like Solar Activity is picking up again..





And what the hell is this... pixel error?










Random latest SOHO data..

[Kingz Profile]

??? What is that aladin? Planet... or a comet?


Anyway, looks like I was right about the activity pumping up again:



AURORA ALERT:
Sky watchers should be alert for auroras tonight. Earth is entering a high speed solar wind stream, and this could cause geomagnetic storms at high latitudes.
http://spaceweather.com/

And some new pictures of that crazy ass filament:

SOLAR FILAMENT: The sun may be spotless today, but it certainly is not blank. A long dark magnetic filament is looping around the northeastern limb, stretching almost 100,000 km from end to end:


Credit: Solar and Heliophysics Observatory (SOHO))

Long, bushy filaments like this have been known to grow unstable and erupt, producing a type of spotless flare called a "Hyder flare." If that happens now, Earth would likely feel some effects from the blast because the filament is turning to face our planet.


Francisco A. Rodriguez
Image taken:
May. 19, 2010
Location:
Cabreja Mountain Observatory (Vega de San Mateo. Cran Canaria Island). Canary Islands
Details:
DMK 21AU04as mono Camera + Lunt Solar Telescope 0,55A BF600 + Barlow x2 APO SW. 1500 frames with registax 5.1
http://www.spaceweather.com/submissions ... 283960.jpg



Pete Lawrence
Image taken:
May. 19, 2010
Location:
Selsey, West Sussex, UK
Details:
The large 'flat' filament that has been visible over the last few days has split in two and remains the main feature visible on the Sun's disc at the moment. However, there's plenty of activity going on around the limb with some fantastic prominences on view.
http://www.spaceweather.com/submissions ... 285730.jpg

http://spaceweather.com/