SPACE - S0 - 20210508 - Solar Flare, Big Eruption, Preview the End of the World
Good Morning, 0bservers!
DAY-UM, SUN!
Let's start today with the elephant in the X-Ray Flux Charts. A rather nasty mid-Class M flare around 1900 UTC. The video loop at 193Å is as impressive as it is terrifying. You can really see the flash at 301Å and 131Å. The "good" news? The ENLIL spiral shows it popping its cork mostly AWAY from Earth, well behind our orbit.
WHEW!
Still, it's only at the Eastern lim right now. It's still incoming. So, snug up your Tinfoil Fez and hope like hell it blew out all it's gonna blow out (note: this also protects you from plummeting Chinese space station modules). The Magnetogram is definitely showing a really large sunspot group, but it's still close to the lim so that image isn't as clear as you'd like.
Now, the more boring news. Like, for instance, solar winds. For most of the day they were in the 290-310 KPS range until around 2100 when it leapt all the way up to 330 KPS. Yeah yeah, sarcasm is fun, but I'm still in shock from that flare. Anyway, we're still at the low end on the winds, which dropped to 300 KPS around 0900 UTC and went up to 340 KPS an hour later. Particle Density stayed mostly steady, and Temperature was steady until the time but it did start going up in the wee hours (yes, that is a scientific term). The Phi Angle did shift a bit around the time of the flare, and has remained a bit verschimmelt since then but not wildly so. KP-Index readings stayed low, mostly KP-1s with a few KP-0s. All nominal with the Magnetometer, Proton Flux and Electron Flux charts.
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