G2 storm, Sunspots, Website addition

Wednesday, 29 March 2017 12:12 UTC

⇩ Carl Bergstrand (Gotland, Sweden)

⇩ Patrick Hughes Photography (Beaghmore Stone Circles, Northern Ireland)

⇩ KotyS Photography (Iceland)

⇩ Ide Geert Koffeman (The Netherlands)

⇩ Kees Zwaan (The Netherlands)

⇩ Maurice Hamming (The Netherlands)

⇩ Diana de Vries (The Netherlands)

⇩ Russell Wiltshire Photography (Point Addis Victoria, Australia)

⇩ Lee Mackay (Hobart, Tasmania, Australia)

⇩ Artur Kwiatkowski (Poland)

⇩ Gary Chittick (Scotland)

⇩ Gary Chittick (Scotland)

Sunspot regions

The Sun isn't spotless anymore! A couple of sunspot regions popped up the last few days and they even gave us a couple of C-class solar flares! Sunspot regions 2644 and 2645 both gave us some C-class solar flares on Monday and Tuesday but they have gone silent today with only B-class activity.

Both sunspot regions were fairly compact when they produced the C-class activity but both are showing signs of magnetic separation, severely reducing the chance for further C-class solar flares. An isolated low-level C-class solar flare can not be excluded but the odds aren't high at all. M or X-class activity is very unlikely.

Nonetheless it is good to see some sunspots on our nearest star as they will become less and less common as we head towards solar minimum. For a live view of the Sun and all of its sunspot regions go check out this page.

Long term Kp forecast graph addition

We combined the long term Kp forecast graph with information about the upcoming moon phases. This will make it easy to spot when the next geomagnetic storm is expected and if the Moon will be a disturbing factor! Handy we think! Go check it out by following this link.