Monster sunspots!
Jan. 13th, 2005 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienMeet NOAA AR 720.
Two days ago it was hardly there at all:
No big flares so far, and maybe it's too simple to do much, but it looks worth keeping an eye on.
For comparison, 486, the one that caused all the excitement around Halloween 2003, was the 'clown-face' one in the southern hemisphere here:
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All the images are from http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov, which is usually worth looking at if you like this kind of thing.
Two days ago it was hardly there at all:
No big flares so far, and maybe it's too simple to do much, but it looks worth keeping an eye on.
For comparison, 486, the one that caused all the excitement around Halloween 2003, was the 'clown-face' one in the southern hemisphere here:
.All the images are from http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov, which is usually worth looking at if you like this kind of thing.
