[SystemSafety] A solar flare, and Carrington

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

I was mistaken about the event. Apparently it all went on between October 18 and end October, as sunspot AR 12192 rolled across the earth-facing part of the sun, and people are expected the sunspot to come back into sight in a couple weeks. It is the sunspot which is huge, not necessarily its flares. None of the flares it released so far were worrisome.

There's some interesting time-lapse footage at http://www.cnet.com/news/watch-a-timelapse-of-sunspot-ar-12192-in-glorious-hd/  and NASA's news is at http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/tracking-a-gigantic-sunspot-across-the-sun/#.VGHAF4h4WrU

PBL

Apparently there were 6 X-class flares and 4 M-

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, University of Bielefeld and Causalis Limited

> On 11 Nov 2014, at 08:11, Peter Bernard Ladkin <ladkin at rvs.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> 
> There's currently a big solar flare which people are watching closely. There is also a new article on the Carrington event, which you can read for $27 for 24 hours of access :-(
> 
> http://gu.com/p/4377z
> 
> PBL
> 
> Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, University of Bielefeld and Causalis Limited
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