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Something maybe wrong with the sun?

#1 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:20 pm

I know I maybe throwing up a freak flag, but this pic of the sun today looks like it has huge dark areas over large parts of our sun. Maybe something is going wrong with our sun.

:eek: Please forgive me if its just a image mess up.
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/mlso_halpha.jpg
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#2 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:26 pm

Hopefully this is a bad image. I will keep you all updated.

I will give it 24 hours to see if this is a bad frame. If not then I can't say.

Image tooken at 1:12:33
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#3 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:18 pm

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/rea ... t_304/512/

This image looks better, maybe it was just a bad image. We will see.
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#4 Postby wxmann_91 » Tue Jun 12, 2007 10:29 pm

Nothing is wrong with the sun. If there was something wrong, scientists would already be all over it.
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#5 Postby Extremeweatherguy » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:08 pm

that would be scary if something suddenly went wrong like that. However, I think all is probably fine with the sun right now.
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#6 Postby Aslkahuna » Wed Jun 13, 2007 4:21 am

Those dark blotches go by the generic name of clouds.

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#7 Postby Matt-hurricanewatcher » Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:38 am

Thanks Aslkahuna, I thought this was taken from Space with the obiter that is between earth and the Sun.
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#8 Postby Aslkahuna » Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:41 pm

No, the H-Alpha images on theSEC site are from the MLSO (Mauna Loa Solar Observatory). The Satellite imagery is generally not H-Alpha. The GOES X-Ray imagers have croaked and SEC doesn't post the SOHO or STEREO imagery (at least not as of yet).

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