Wednesday, May 11, 2022

A Flaring Sun--May 11, 2022

 Today’s Sun: AR 3006, which has a beta-gamma-delta magnetic field, has been producing X-Class flares (the most powerful flares the sun produces). The first image shows the whole solar disk captured as a three-panel panorama with the PST-DS scope. About 10 minutes after this capture. I noticed that AR 3006 seemed to be flaring with a burst of intensity on the central white spot being the event I first noticed. The second picture is a crop of this event; the two white spots indicate where the flaring seemed to be most intense. Within 10 minutes, it had disappeared and AR 3006 reverted to its pre-flare appearance.




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