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Author Topic: 2014-09-10 23:18 UTC Recent R3 Solar Flare  (Read 1013 times)

Offline ka1iic

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2014-09-10 23:18 UTC Recent R3 Solar Flare
« on: September 11, 2014, 0119 UTC »
2014-09-10 23:18 UTC  Recent R3 Solar Flare

Active Region 2158, now near center disk, produced a X1 (NOAA Scale R3 - Strong) solar flare today at 10/1745 UTC (Sep 10th at 01:45pm EDT). Impacts to HF radio communications on the daylight side of Earth lasted for a little more than an hour.

Initial information suggests that CME is likely associated with this event, however, further analysis is underway at this time.

Standby for more details.

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/index.html

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Re: 2014-09-10 23:18 UTC Recent R3 Solar Flare
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2014, 1220 UTC »
They have confirmed a CME from the X1.6 flare. Looks like the CME from the earlier flare should hit around 2300z today, the second around 1300z tomorrow.

Good chances for aurora.
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