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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Sunspot 1093 and 1099 together emits a class C4 solar flare

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IN THE IMAGE YOU CAN SEE THE X RAY FLUX HITING C4 RANGE
The magnetic fields again got unstable on 14th August near to 10UT around the two near sunspots 1093 and 1099. The result was that a combined flare of magnitude Class 4 or C4 solar flare was emitted.
The entire activity lasted near to 2hrs. Also from the datas from SDO, a giant plasma was emitted in space so it possibly c'd have led to a minor Coronal Mass Ejection!
AS those two sunspots are facing away from earth, the emitted cloud of plasma will not reach the earth..

At the same time, as I was expecting on 14th August the solar wind which got emitted in space from the coronal hole which extended a large distance on sun FINALLY ARRIVED and now influencing the earth's magnetic field causing a Solar Radiation storm
A solar radiation storm happens when solar protons emitted from sun hit the earth. They are mostly deflected due to the magnetic field but cause a solar radiation storm!
NOAA has classified it as S1 which is a minor! as I had estimated
The onset was near 1022UT,14th August 2010.... Current speed of Solar wind is 419.7Km/sec and density of 1.8 protons/cm3 as of 1735UT

This minor storm will not cause any notable effects!
Solar activity is expected to remain quiet after 16th august as the two days, the high speed coronal stream will affect the earth
I think, some new sunspots will be developing on the SDO side of the sun in the coming days


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