CME and Geoeffective Wake 5th Feb 2022

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CME and Geoeffective Wake 5th Feb 2022

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The weak CME impact on Feb 1st was a little disappointing, but turbulence in its wake has proved to be a little more geoeffective, sparking aurora and creating a pair of G1 geomagnetic storms.

Here are my data, which span 1st Feb to 5th Feb and cover pretty much the whole event.
20220205_Weak CME_Wake.jpg
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There's a stream of fast flowing solar wind which Earth is about to enter today, so there might be a chance of further aurora for those lucky enough to be in a suitable location to see them.

Thanks for looking.

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Re: CME and Geoeffective Wake 5th Feb 2022

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Each one is different! Thanks for sharing Stu!


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After that little damp effort to start it has managed to create a bit more activity than we thought :hamster:

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Thanks Mark and Alexandra.
Yea...the wake seemed more geoeffective than the CME impact. As Mark said, each one is different.

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Thanks for the report Stuart!

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Many thanks, Brian.

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Hi,

Well done Sun, keep the storms coming so we get rid of the Starlink Space Junk from Elon Musk :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Look at his article

https://www.spacex.com/updates/?fbclid= ... XLrkcQmFGg


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I saw that yesterday on the BBC news and let off a cheer!!! go go Sun!!!! it gives us hope because that was just a minor blast compared to what we know our Sun can do :hamster:

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https://youtu.be/a7KUSN89-A0 shows a fantastic video of all (or most) of the space-junk/Starlink-rubbish re-entering and burning-up in the outer Earths' atmosphere...

Three minutes of pure delight, to see that valuable-waste of money, come crashing back towards where it was made...

Now maybe at least, a little of our night-sky and its' observers will be devoid of those little sillies...

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Montana wrote: Thu Feb 10, 2022 7:58 am I saw that yesterday on the BBC news and let off a cheer!!! go go Sun!!!! it gives us hope because that was just a minor blast compared to what we know our Sun can do :hamster:

Alexandra
Just pocket money ...

https://fortune.com/2022/02/10/spacex-s ... -internet/


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Re: CME and Geoeffective Wake 5th Feb 2022

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Thanks everyone.
It seems crazy that as a species we're investing billions on ever more sophisticated Earth based telescopes (ELT for example), yet at the same time billions are being spent filling space with junk that ruin their images. Go figure :?

I guess commerce wins.

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