SIDC Info
INFO FROM SIDC - RWC BELGIUM 2024 May 06 12:59UTC
Geomagnetic conditions were globally and locally at quiet to minor storm conditions (NOAA Kp and K BEL 2 to 5). It increased from quiet to minor storm conditions between 18:00 UT on May 05 and 03:00 UT on May 06. This could be possibly initially due to the arrival of a coronal mass ejections (CME), which was observed on May 01, and later due to the arrival of high speed streams (HSS) from an equatorial positive polarity coronal hole (CH) which crossed the central meridian on May 03.
EUI - First Light 1 year
Kees de Jager 100!
In honour of the 100th Birthday of Kees de Jager, prominent Dutch astronomer and one of our favorite solar physicists, the EUI instrument onboard Solar Orbiter took a pair of images in two different wavelengths. The images were taken in the very early morning of April 29, at 00:19:21 and 00:20:21 CEST representing the years 1921 and 2021.
Solar cycle minimum passed in December 2019
In January 2020, the 13-month smoothed sunspot number rose for the first time since the maximum of cycle 24 (April 2014). Most probably, this indicates that the minimum between cycles 24 and 25 was passed in December 2019.
EUI - Source of the Solar Wind
FSI - Full Sun Imager - Click on the images to download the movies.
CREDIT: ESA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team: CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL.
EUI - Campfires on the Sun
HRIEUV - High Resolution Imager in the EUV - The squares are examples of little campfires, the circle (left under) denotes the size of the Earth.
Click on the picture to download the movie.
CREDIT: ESA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team: CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL.
