X4.5 flare WITH CME
Taken by Timothy O Connor on September 14, 2024 @
Bataiva, Ohio
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Here it is the time-lapse video of the X4.5 solar flare with a fast coronal mass ejection imaged yesterday from my backyard!
The white overexposed areas are the X4.4 flair and the "clouds" above the sun on the bottom right is the CME (charged plasma, part of the sun's atmosphere) that got launched into space.
This CME is many times the size of our planet and it looks like it will miss us. Sunspot region 3825 which is close to the east limb and slowly rotating into an earth-facing position produced this long-duration X4.5 class solar flare (R3-strong) today that peaked at 15:29 UTC. This is the fifth largest solar flare of the current Solar Cycle.
As a side note, all of my telescope, camera, computer and processing equipment is solar powered from light at the time of the imaging so this is sort of a "sun selfie".
Photographer's website:
https://solarchatforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=446305#p446305
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