INCREASING CHANCE OF FLARES: Solar activity ticked upward on May 24th with the eruption of an M1-class solar flare from sunspot AR2065. Sunspot AR2073 also poses a threat for M-class flares, so the weekend might not be as quiet as previously supposed. Solar flare alerts: text, voice MAY CAMELOPARDALID METEOR UPDATE: Note to sky watchers: Thats not what a meteor storm looks like. On May 24th, as predicted, Earth passed through a stream of debris from Comet 209P/LINEAR, and the encounter did produce a number of fine meteors. However, contrary to some forecasts, there was no intense outburst. Typical naked-eye meteor rates were no more than 5 or 10 per hour, a far cry from the meteor storm some headlines anticipated. Even though the meteor shower was less than spectacular, it was still nice to spend the night camping out under dark skies, says Kevin Palmer of Illinois. I captured this fireball over the Green River State Wildlife Area at 2:24 am. Solar wind speed: 405.9 km/sec density: 1.9 protons/cm3 explanation | more data Updated: Today at 1247 UT X-ray Solar Flares
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 13:08:56 +0000
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