One Million kilometer filament on the Sun

ewhite · 02-23-2010, 03:39 PM

GREAT FILAMENT: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is tracking an enormous magnetic filament on the sun. It stretches more than one million kilometers from end to end, which makes it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

I was surprised I could not find a thread on this anywhere here. This is not meant to be "doom and gloom", whatever may come of it is meant to be. I just think it is pretty cool and really wish I had the equipment to take some photos of it myself. There is not much much known about these filaments. They are known to cause "Hyder flares" when they crash back down and usually only last a few hours. This one has been going on for 3 days and counting.

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02-23-2010, 03:39 PM	#1
ewhite Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Central, Pa. Posts: 60	One Million kilometer filament on the Sun GREAT FILAMENT: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is tracking an enormous magnetic filament on the sun. It stretches more than one million kilometers from end to end, which makes it an easy target for backyard solar telescopes. http://www.spaceweather.com/ I was surprised I could not find a thread on this anywhere here. This is not meant to be "doom and gloom", whatever may come of it is meant to be. I just think it is pretty cool and really wish I had the equipment to take some photos of it myself. There is not much much known about these filaments. They are known to cause "Hyder flares" when they crash back down and usually only last a few hours. This one has been going on for 3 days and counting. -E Last edited by ewhite; 02-23-2010 at 03:46 PM. Reason: Spelling - typed hydra, meant hyder --doh!