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SPACE WEATHER
Current conditions
Solar wind
speed: 477.4 km/sec
density: 3.0 protons/cm3
explanation | more data
Updated: Today at 2246 UT
X-ray Solar Flares
6-hr max: A1
1925 UT Sep07
24-hr: A4
1630 UT Sep07
explanation | more data
Updated: Today at: 2245 UT
Daily Sun: 07 Sep 07
Departing sunspot 970 poses no threat for strong solar flares. Credit: SOHO/MDI
Sunspot number: 12
What is the sunspot number?
Updated 05 Sep 2007
Far side of the Sun:
This holographic image reveals no sunspots on the far side of the sun. Image credit: SOHO/MDI
Planetary K-index
Now: Kp= 1 quiet
24-hr max: Kp= 4
unsettled
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Current Auroral Oval:
Switch to: Europe, USA, New Zealand, Antarctica
Credit: NOAA/POES
Updated: 2007 Sep 07 2149 UT
Interplanetary Mag. Field
Btotal: 2.2 nT
Bz: 1.3 nT north
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Updated: Today at 2246 UT
Coronal Holes:
Earth is inside a solar wind stream flowing from the indicated coronal hole. Credit: SOHO Extreme Ultraviolet Telescope
SPACE WEATHER
NOAA Forecasts
Updated at: 2007 Sep 07 2203 UTC
FLARE
0-24 hr
24-48 hr
CLASS M
01 %
01 %
CLASS X
01 %
01 %
Geomagnetic Storms:
Probabilities for significant disturbances in Earth's magnetic field are given for three activity levels: active, minor storm, severe storm
Updated at: 2007 Sep 07 2203 UTC
Mid-latitudes
0-24 hr
24-48 hr
ACTIVE
10 %
10 %
MINOR
05 %
01 %
SEVERE
01 %
01 %
High latitudes
0-24 hr
24-48 hr
ACTIVE
15 %
10 %
MINOR
05 %
05 %
SEVERE
01 %
01 %
What's up in Space
September 7, 2007
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SOLAR FILAMENT: A dark magnetic filament is approaching the western horizon of the sun where it could turn into a beautifully glowing prominence this weekend. If you have a solar telescope, keep an eye on the limb: image.

AURORAS BOREALIS: A solar wind stream hit Earth last night sparking bright auroras over Scandinavia. Mats Holmstrom sends this photo from Kiruna, Sweden (latitude 67o N):

"These are the first auroras of the season--at least for me," he says. The geomagnetic disturbance is subsiding now. The chances for more auroras tonight are low.

September 2007 Aurora Gallery
[August 2007 Aurora Gallery] [Night-sky Cameras]

COLORS OF THE VIRGA: "Virga is rain that falls from a cloud, but never lands [because it evaporates before it hits the ground]," says physics professor Wayne Wooten. "It is probably more common than most of us realize, but never have I seen it so dramatically lit as at 7:04 PM last evening in Pensacola, Florida." He grabbed his camera and snapped this picture:

"A break in the clouds toward sunset let a thin shaft of orange light reach the falling shower just as the cloud above it was evaporating," he explains. "The beautiful effect was gone in only a minute, as a cloud blocked the sun's last rays, and the shower evaporated back up into the atmosphere."

"Live every minute as if the next will bring something wonderful."

MORE: "Just this morning, as I was coming to work in Lexington, Kentucky, I saw a beautiful display of the same thing minutes before sunrise--virga beautifully backlit by the rising sun," reports Mike Lynch of Fayette County, Kentucky. He took this picture using his Pentax *ist digital camera.

AND MORE: "The days are now short enough to see the sun set," says Wes Lutes of of Wasilla, Alaska. "Yesterday, I went outside after a long day at work and saw the light of sunset reflecting off of a nice patch of virga: photo."

Near-Earth Asteroids
Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time.
On September 7, 2007 there were 882 potentially hazardous asteroids.
Sept. 2007 Earth-asteroid encounters:
Asteroid
Date(UT)
Miss Distance
Mag.
Size
2007 RF1
Sep. 2
8.5 LD
18
26 m
2007 RS1
Sep. 5
0.2 LD
17
3 m
2007 RJ1
Sep. 16
2.5 LD
16
40 m
Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.
Essential Links
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Atmospheric Optics
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Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
  Realtime and archival images of the Sun from SOHO.
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