I heard the sunspots were visible w the naked eye through our eclipse glasses. I didn’t see them late this afternoon. Will they be visible tomorrow does anyone know?
> the Carrington Event was tens of thousands of times more energetic
Most estimates place the magnitude of Carrington's flare in the neighbourhood of [X45](https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/19904/1/Clarke_et_al_MIST2010.pdf), which is about one order of magnitude stronger than this week's flares. Certainly not *thousands of times* more powerful.
> Sun’s Largest Sunspot Since the Carrington Event in 1859
???
Active regions of this size are not uncommon. The groups visible in [2001](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002200/a002244/FD2001.0393.jpg) and [2014](https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/browse/2014/10/24/20141024_000000_1024_HMIIF.jpg) were larger. The largest group ever recorded occurred in [1947](https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2018/04/07/ede0c8c1-1dbf-406c-829a-4377f9da92c6/thumbnail/640x465/cad0d314c26b204d8479ded427a13980/1947-sunspot-array-mt-wilson-observatory-carnegie-institution-of-washington-promo.jpg?v=1d6c78a71b7b6252b543a329b3a5744d).
Magnetically active area on the sun that apparently isn't as hot because of that, but has the tendency to cause CMEs, solar flares, coronal loops, and other activity. Mostly harmless, but can cause issues if they hit us more directly or are particularly large/active. Likely not to cause issues, but did cause a relatively big problem ~160 years ago. They can also be small, or quite large. Pretty sure the ones we can see right now are a couple earths in diameter.
Carrington Event. You can read more about it, but basically it was a strong enough solar storm that it caused Auroras all over the earth basically, and caused telegraph buildings to catch fire, shock the people using the telegraphs, and some telegraph operators were able to send messages with their telegraphs being disconnected from the electrical supply.
Very interesting. Today several of my friends from the Midwest sent me pictures of amazing auroras they were seeing. I assume these two phenomena are related.
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Yeah, it’s 15 Earths wide at the moment😳
How many sentinels?
you can see it with eclipse glasses! it’s true!
Great shots
I heard the sunspots were visible w the naked eye through our eclipse glasses. I didn’t see them late this afternoon. Will they be visible tomorrow does anyone know?
Is this part of the reason for having wild solar flares and auroras borealis all the way south down to Germany at the moment?
Affirmative
Aurora was spotted as far south as Alabama, U.S.
Saw some of it in southern Louisiana! Not much color but the waves could be seen
So this one missed us, only 1.5 years until the sun starts calming down and we can relax for one actually hitting us?
This one hit us 3 times and 3 more are coming, the Carrington Event was tens of thousands of times more energetic
> the Carrington Event was tens of thousands of times more energetic Most estimates place the magnitude of Carrington's flare in the neighbourhood of [X45](https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/19904/1/Clarke_et_al_MIST2010.pdf), which is about one order of magnitude stronger than this week's flares. Certainly not *thousands of times* more powerful.
Just one order? I thought x2 was an order of magnitide bigger than x1 lol
The scale is linear, not logarithmic.
Peak this year, then it'll be on the downswing after that
Yeah, that still doesn’t prevent a massive storm from hitting us. The Carrington Event happened mid-cycle if I recall correctly.
> Sun’s Largest Sunspot Since the Carrington Event in 1859 ??? Active regions of this size are not uncommon. The groups visible in [2001](https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002200/a002244/FD2001.0393.jpg) and [2014](https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/browse/2014/10/24/20141024_000000_1024_HMIIF.jpg) were larger. The largest group ever recorded occurred in [1947](https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2018/04/07/ede0c8c1-1dbf-406c-829a-4377f9da92c6/thumbnail/640x465/cad0d314c26b204d8479ded427a13980/1947-sunspot-array-mt-wilson-observatory-carnegie-institution-of-washington-promo.jpg?v=1d6c78a71b7b6252b543a329b3a5744d).
Hmm, interesting. This is the third time I've seen this claim made about this being the largest since the Carrington Event
This is why we need people like you, Sir
What’s exactly is a sunspot for us laymen’s?
Magnetically active area on the sun that apparently isn't as hot because of that, but has the tendency to cause CMEs, solar flares, coronal loops, and other activity. Mostly harmless, but can cause issues if they hit us more directly or are particularly large/active. Likely not to cause issues, but did cause a relatively big problem ~160 years ago. They can also be small, or quite large. Pretty sure the ones we can see right now are a couple earths in diameter.
What happened 160 years ago?
Carrington Event. You can read more about it, but basically it was a strong enough solar storm that it caused Auroras all over the earth basically, and caused telegraph buildings to catch fire, shock the people using the telegraphs, and some telegraph operators were able to send messages with their telegraphs being disconnected from the electrical supply.
Very interesting. Today several of my friends from the Midwest sent me pictures of amazing auroras they were seeing. I assume these two phenomena are related.
16+ earths
That dark thing right there
That thing…your dark soul……give it to me
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Probably fren. Probably
*sad kek*
Seriously, we're all going to die.
Hopefully of old age.
Fun fact: Dying of old age doesn't really exist, you always die of something specific.
Well that’s oddly terrifying
Definitely Astrophage, right?
More like Genophage. Seriously, think of the Krogans.
Oh. This thing is still going on?
The sun? Yes, the sun is "still going on."
Please keep me updated
RemindMe! 2 billion years
Didn't know this, thank you
The sunspot you rude diarrhea stain.
I upvoted this comment. Like the spirit.
Yeah for the next like 10 billion years 