Wow!

Nice of the prominence to happen in the corner where there's some extra room in the FOV.

Is this one of the biggest prominence eruptions ever? WOW

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/browse...3_2048_0304.jpg

small animated GIF

And appearing in the LASCOC2 images

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPRO...0818_c2_512.jpg

And the view from LASCOC2

Good catch! Thanks for the heads up on that, I was at work so would have missed it if you hadn't let us know.

Is there a proper name for the cool secondary explosions when plasma falls back on the photosphere?
As seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpkXhlPIINQ

I dont know... I don't think i've ever seen anything like that before, maybe its just SDO is the first to be able to observe such explosions.

I've never seen that splashing either. What a cool (HOT) video!!!

Those cold gas filaments falling back and flashing up as they "impact" have got to be one of the coolest things about the Sun I've ever seen. It's like throwing sticks of wood into a lava pool. The initial shockwave was also cool.

The shockwave in the AIA 211 images is probably the most impressive it looks like an expanding bubble.

Some good gif movies on the SOHO site...

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/gif/

I think the STEREO AHEAD probe will have had a great view of this prominence.

Very exciting images and either very provocative

Just beyond freaking amazing. To witness such titanic phenomena is a stunning experience.

It can't possibly be safe to live in close proximity to such a monstrous thing. Somebody should do something!

Not to worry, give it a couple gigayears and the problem will solve itself.

Compared to the Earth, how massive are those "sticks of wood" referred to by Ugordan in 160?
And, where were Mercury and Messenger when the big outburst took place?
Do events like this have the ability to damage the spacecraft?

Quick comparison between size of Earth and Sun (and the eruption).

And here's an animation of the event from STEREO A

Huge prominence is lifting off the sun right now http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest...t_1024_0304.jpg

Just noticed this morning - do these SDO images look blurry to you?

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest...t_4096_0304.jpg
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest...t_4096_0171.jpg

They look upsampled to me. Eyeballing it, I'd say the original frames were 4x4 binned.

But this image, which is a composite, seems ok. weird

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/f_304_211_171.jpg

It doesn't look "ok" to me, I see huge data gaps in certain bands. Obviously some bandwidth/downlink issues.

This one seems ok to me though http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/f_211_193_171.jpg I don't see anything on the website to say they have changed the images.

To me, yes. It's look blurry.

SDO following a "lunar transit" right now... GORGEOUS views...

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data

Hi, I combine colour image from today images. I use FITS 1024x1024px AIA 304 ( R ) AIA 171 ( G ) and AIA 211 ( B )

Click to view attachment

Wow... major eruption earlier this evening...

Click to view attachment

This has got to be the most amazing image of the Sun I have ever seen.



Link to story and video:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth...2-filament.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/05/so...filament_video/

"Last Friday the Sun put on a magnificent display, ejecting a massive solar filament that was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in all its glory."

Wow, that is an awesome image! Thank you very much for posing it. Now Hollywood special effects houses have something to aspire to.

Today's SDO images show the solar disk partially out of frame, and in different locations at different times. I have never seen that before and I check almost every day. Perhaps some pointing issue?

Airbag

PS Some stunning flares/prominences, BTW!

Looks like very ordinary, regular flat-field maneuvers. They've done them many many times in the past.

Confirmed...


https://twitter.com/NASA_SDO/status/324554290259709953

Ah thanks, good to know! I guess I just never happened to look at the web page when they were doing that before.

Airbag

I managed to reprocess some frames grabbed from the 13th of May, in the morning (about 6:00 AM GMT), with 131 and 171 filters .

...stunning. Can you make a wallpaper version, Damia?

Yep

http://www.db-prods.net/blog/wp-content/up..._composite_.jpg

A really creative and informative video was released a couple of days ago on the NASA Goddard website, showing the Sun in multiple SDO filters at the same time.

Airbag

Hi
I can't open FITS images from SDO. I try NASA view, Fitswork, Maxim DL and nothing

Images are from http://sdowww.lmsal.com/suntoday_v2/
and http://jsoc.stanford.edu/ajax/lookdata.html

So guys, you can open this FITS ?

I've just performed an animation of solar activity over a period of 24 hours on March 21, 2017 on the basis of SDO data.
Time scale: 1/4hour/second, Extreme Ultraviolet AIA171.
The Earth was incorporated at scale into the animation for size comparison.

Here is the outcome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck-zdw0XS6M

November 4th to November 7th sequence retimed & processed...



4k60 version over on Youtube

the fits images seam to have a odd header
http://sdowww.lmsal.com/suntoday_v2/?sunto...date=2017-11-09

the very old program "ds9" opens them fine
http://ds9.si.edu/site/Home.html
http://ds9.si.edu/site/Beta.html

One Month of Sun



4k60 version over on Youtube

Friday, 6th October 2017


3 minute cadence...HD 30fps interpolated to 60fps


4k60 version 1 on Youtube

The same shot with a different upscale & process...


4k60 version on Youtube

Clip 1


Clip 2

Wow. Is that a flare at ~ 50s in? Amazing.

Monday, 6th June, 2011


Clip...


4k60 version on Youtube

HI Sean,
I just thought the last days: Are there any new videos from the SDO probe? :-)
Thanks for this videos, they are really fantastic!

My hint: Just look at this video in slow motion (1/4 speed)!