Amazing flare on Sun’s limb right now!!

[Highburymark]

Amazing flare right now!!!

[Highburymark]

Hoping someone caught this - never seen such dramatic activity, watching it change in real time……..

[Victor Boesen]

Wow, happy on your behalf! That's an X-class flare

[Stu]

Has it finished now? Still worth popping the scope out?

[Victor Boesen]

4 minutes ago, Stu said:

Has it finished now? Still worth popping the scope out?

Starting to fade in X-ray flux now.

Edited April 30, 2022 by Victor Boesen

[Highburymark]

The main fireworks are over - it grew from nothing to full height in about 5 minutes, then split and is now falling back - just looks like a nice prom now - all happened so fast.

[Roy Challen]

Aargh! Went shopping, patchy cloud here at the mo.

Was it this? That area looked good this morning but the seeing wasn't great.

Edited April 30, 2022 by Roy Challen

[Ibbo!]

Reckon I missed it by 10 mins or so as I was clouded out.

[Highburymark]

2 minutes ago, Roy Challen said:

Aargh! Went shopping, patchy cloud here at the mo

 

1 minute ago, Ibbo! said:

Reckon I missed it by 10 mins or so as I was clouded out.

Bad luck - I’ve missed countless flares in the past so know how you feel. But there will be lots more to come.

[Ibbo!]

3 minutes ago, Highburymark said:

 

Bad luck - I’ve missed countless flares in the past so know how you feel. But there will be lots more to come.

Very true.

[Highburymark]

34 minutes ago, Roy Challen said:

Aargh! Went shopping, patchy cloud here at the mo.

Was it this? That area looked good this morning but the seeing wasn't great.

Yes - that was it Roy. 

[newbie alert]

I wondered why I couldn't find it again.. cloud dodging here..

[Pete Presland]

Definitely an area worth watching as it rotates out of view, it has produced a lot of flares already

[vineyard]

I think I may have caught it in this image & animation I was tinkering with - is this what you saw @Highburymark?

[Roy Challen]

Great image Vin, what time was it captured? It looks more like what I saw earlier that morning.

[vineyard]

Thanks Roy - the still was captured at 1345 BST, and the animation of it subsiding is about 8 mins between 1345-1353 (400 or 500 frames taken in about 0.8-1s every 60s for 8 mins) - complete fluke b/c I was just tinkering, saw the spike & thought I'd see if I could get some time-lapse style footage.  Was not expecting it would subside so quickly!

[Highburymark]

That must be it Roy - time of surge prom, emerging from area of extreme brightness on the limb, was 14:45 in UK. Your shot looks like it was still growing, but it quickly fragmented and dispersed. First X-class flare I’ve seen. 

[Highburymark]

Lovely images by the way!

[dillon80uk]

Great images.

[Nigella Bryant]

Unfortunately I missed that one to being clouded out. Typical, but there will be many more as we're still heading towards maximum in two or so years.