I was just looking into all of this. Today's storm is one of 3 of the largest measured in all history.
Really good story here:
http://msnbc.com/news/984388.asp?0dm=C11MT
Awesome closeup here:
Go to the bottom of this page
http://rednova.com/news/stories/1/20.../story010.html
Under where it says:
"Movies of the Flare:"
Right-click on:
"EIT closeup of flare"
and "save link target as" to your harddrive.
I set up my media player to repeat forever and I played it full screen. WILD BABY!
anyone know more about aurora forecasts?
FYI: I just started a new thread here:
http://tfproject.org/tfp/showthread....threadid=33570
I had more info and I also (mostly) just thought the the nature and magnitude of today's eruption was deserving of a separate thread. I wanted to give everyone a "heads up" for the possible aurora show of a lifetime for many folks. This thread here is great, but the newest and biggest event (today's) is buried at the bottom of 17 other posts than most might not bother to read all the way through.