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SOHO EIT 304
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SOHO EIT 284 Animated
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LASCO/C2
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The sun is constantly monitored for sun spots and coronal mass ejections. EIT (Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) images the solar atmosphere at several wavelengths, and therefore, shows solar material at different temperatures. In the images taken at 304 Angstrom the bright material is at 60,000 to 80,000 degrees Kelvin. In those taken at 171 Angstrom, at 1 million degrees. 195 Angstrom images correspond to about 1.5 million Kelvin, 284 Angstrom to 2 million degrees. The hotter the temperature, the higher you look in the solar atmosphere.
Solar activity reached moderate levels with an M1.5/1N flare at 08/1756 UTC from Region 4482 (S09E28, Eki/beta-gamma). There are currently five numbered regions on the visible disk. Region 4482 demonstrated continued growth and developed a delta spot within its trailing spot group. Region 4485 (S10W28, Dso/beta-gamma) displayed new flux emergence. Regions 4486 (S18W57, Axx/alpha) and 4487 (N09E26, Axx/alpha) were newly numbered during the period. Region 4481 (N14W06, Axx/alpha) was stable and remained an unremarkable unipolar group. No Earth-directed CMEs were observed in available coronagraph imagery.
Solar Activity Forecast
Issued: 2026 Jul 09 0030 UTC
Solar activity is expected to remain at low levels through 11 July, with a high chance for M-class (R1-R2/Minor-Moderate) flares and a slight chance for X-class (R3/Strong and greater) events. This flare probability is almost entirely due to the complexity and potential of Region 4482. Energetic
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Auroral Activity Extrapolated from NOAA POES
Northern Hemi Auroral Map
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Southern Hemi Auroral Map
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Instruments on board the NOAA Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) continually monitor the power flux carried by the protons and electrons that produce aurora in the atmosphere. SWPC has developed a technique that uses the power flux observations obtained during a single pass of the satellite over a polar region (which takes about 25 minutes) to estimate the total power deposited in an entire polar region by these auroral particles. The power input estimate is converted to an auroral activity index that ranges from 1 to 10.
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