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The ‘Great Magnetic Filament’ on the sun that we’ve been tracking for the past week finally erupted yesterday.
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) images bracket the eruption between 0719 and 1919 UT on Feb. 24th. The event did not produce a bright solar flare, as sometimes happens when filaments erupt, but there was a coronal mass ejection (CME). SOHO coronagraphs observed at least one and possibly as many as three clouds billowing away from the sun: movie. If any of this material is heading for Earth–a big unknown!–it should arrive on Feb. 27th or 28th. Arctic sky watchers should be alert for auroras on those dates.
I will keep you posted once more info is out, hopefully it is a mild CME enough to cause a small geomagnetic storm and give us a nice aurora light show.
A large CME could knock out satellites or worse effect our power grid and the worst thing about that is you can’t access Wycky News!!!! :-(
So people in the far Northern and Southern Hemispheres keep your eyes on the sky 27th & 28th Feb for hopefully an awesome aurora light show. If the Geomagnetic Storm is large enough people in Tasmania and maybe even Southern Victoria will get a piece of the action
Please keep us posted. We are anxious to here the outcome of where these CME’s might be heading.
Will do my best.
You can also keep an eye on it here – http://www.spaceweather.com/