More Activity Coming! 1st June

[marktownley]

Wowzers, look at the Stereo image, activity at -110deg in the southern hemisphere with us in a couple of days, then activity at -120 and -150 in the northern.

Interesting to see how it develops in the days ahead. By the end of the week the disk might be as 'busy' as it has been for quite some time

[DeepSolar64]

WoW, are we coming outta minimum early!?

[JochenM]

Interesting. Seems we're being treated activity wise in the last week or so.

A good sign for things to come I guess/hope.

[EGRAY_OBSERVATORY]

Indeed Mark, certainly like we could be in with an interesting-time soon.

Thanks
Terry

[rsfoto]

Thanks Mark

[eroel]

Mark:
Hope so.
Regards,
Eric.

[dhkaiser]

Fingers crossed they don't fizzle out.

[David_The_Bears_Fan]

Going to hold you to this now Mark!

[Montana]

Yes, busy but cloudy

Alexandra

[marktownley]

Fingers crossed they don't fizzle out.

Well the 2 on the far side in the northern hemisphere do seem to have fizzled out, however the one that is just about to round the limb in the southern hemisphere seems to be more substantial. There's quite clearly 2 white patches, and loop like structures. This suggests a dipole region with decent magnetic fields, both of which would act as a proxy for sunspots potentially.

Looking on the GONG movies the area on the limb has been spitting away, with quite a few transient jet features.

GOES X-ray flux in slowly increasing and suggests cracklings at B class level.

goes-x-ray-flux-1-minute (3).png (62.58 KiB) Viewed 586 times

All in i'd say this area is more than just a bit of damp plage.

[dhkaiser]

Mark I agree watch this SDO video near the end and you can see the activity just beyond the SE limb.

https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/latest48.php?q=0304