Well sky watchers remember that NASA press conference that spoke of a relatively mild solar cycle 24 ? I guess it’s all about the average. We experienced 2 fairly strong flares today an M5.3 at at 1:50 UTC and a real jolt of the X2.1 at 22:20 UTC.
These flares shot off sunspot 1283 which is fortunately or unfortunately sitting almost dead center of the suns disk. Preliminary reports do appear to show that both eruptions produced CMEs or coronal mass ejections which will most likely strike the earth.
Here’s the M5
The X flare
That’s some real dramatic music huh?
Namaste friends and keep looking up for sure. We've had a pretty exciting week with the supernova and in a couple days time the CMEs from these flares should stimulate some fairly low latitude aurora displays.