SUNSET: 
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Photographer:
Jon Greif
Location of Photo:
Alpine, CA, USA
Date/Time of photo:
October 24, 2024, at 11 am PDT
Equipment:
Stack of 185 still photos taken with an ASI 178MM camera through a Lunt 50mm Pressure Tuned Hydrogen Alpha refractor. Processed with ASICap and Pixinsight (FFT registration script and Solar Tools, BlurXTerminator and Curves processes) on an M1 MacBook Pro.
Description:
The sun had been rather quiet of late, but roared back to life yesterday with a major X-class solar flare eruption, the most powerful class of solar flare. The intense flare originated from sunspot region AR3869 and unfolded over the span of an hour, reaching its peak at 8:57 p.m. PDT. Extreme ultraviolet radiation from the eruption triggered shortwave radio blackouts over Australia and Southeast Asia. The eruption was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection (CME). When CMEs hit Earth they can trigger geomagnetic storms like the ones experienced earlier this month that lead to impressive northern lights stretching into mid-latitudes. But , it is unlikely any significant portion of a CME released during the event will impact Earth due to the location AR3869 at the limb of the Sun.
