Go look at the sun right now if you can!

[vineyard]

Seriously.

[Knighty2112]

I can’t. What’s going on? Are the Monoliths collapsing into the sun, increasing its mass and making it form into a black hole possibly?  

[Alien 13]

Is this the possible X class flare coming our way...

Alan

[Craney]

 

For those with 8/8ths Oktas......

Lots to observe in Ha.     Bits flying off at 2 o'clock position.

This is from 

Solar data view select (nso.edu)

Click on the site name for the observatory ( Cerro Tololo in this case)  and it downloads a movie of the frames.

Edited May 17, 2022 by Craney

[vineyard]

Yes it was that bit flying off - for the 20-25 mins or so that I was watching it went from something that looked big & bold but just about tenuously attached to the disk to a wisp like thing jettisoned off into the darkness, gone forever.

[vlaiv]

6 minutes ago, vineyard said:

Yes it was that bit flying off - for the 20-25 mins or so that I was watching it went from something that looked big & bold but just about tenuously attached to the disk to a wisp like thing jettisoned off into the darkness, gone forever.

Just saw animation that @Craney linked above - it really shot off like a projectile in the end!

[vineyard]

27 minutes ago, vlaiv said:

Just saw animation that @Craney linked above - it really shot off like a projectile in the end!

Yes it was crazy how relatively fast that was happening - just thinking about the staggering amounts of energy that must have been in flux there and then in such a short period of time and across so much volume of space.  You always hear how solar observation can be so dynamic - that's not wrong!

It was also v interesting clocking the etalon - it really changed what could be seen.

[markse68]

Must have been amazing to see in real time- it's a bit scary when the sun burps like that!

Mark

[vineyard]

It really was something.  Esp the scale of it a the start.  I'd been wanting to look at the sun all day and just couldn't manage to do so until that time - got lucky!

[Nigella Bryant]

Unfortunately I missed that due to rain 🌧️. Managed a session at midday though. Magnetic flux is really building up now. 

[vineyard]

8 hours ago, Nigella Bryant said:

Magnetic flux is really building up now. 

I'm part way through reading Viladrich et al "Solar Astronomy" - its fascinating stuff.  I had no idea about how the temperature changes so much, and the role the magnetic flux plays (including in pushing the coronal temperatures to 1 million Kelvin!)😲

[Alan White]

That is indeed an incredible event, amazing watching the animation.
Our Sun is such an interesting thing to observe.