The Sun Now

Описание: A real-time source of solar and space weather activity, as well as exclusive access to power grid anomaly reports caused by geomagnetic storming.

This stream is the only source of near real-time northern / southern lights from three NOAA polar-orbiting spacecraft. The spacecraft are in a train spaced about 25 minutes apart and all data is stitched into the mosaics. The red line is where the sun is rising and setting. The blue line is where the darkest skies exist and will change shape according to when the moon rises and sets. The dotted yellow line represents the center of the last swath from the polar orbiting satellites. The best viewing for auroral activity is inside the blue line where astronomically dark conditions exist.

This live-stream is also the first (and only) source to provide publicly available experimental 2-hour predictions of solar flare locations using NASA's advanced SURYA heliospheric inference model. These maps are superimposed on the 94 Angstrom images. You'll see flickers of color at the base of active regions that are predicted to be the source locations of flare activity according to SURYA's training.

We are also providing automated magnetic shear intensity maps of target solar regions (shear indicates flaring potential) superimposed on solar magnetogram and 1600 Angstrom images that show opposite polarity (white and black) magnetic fields and any significant shear between those regions as lines of colors varying from red (modest) to yellow/white (strong).

Our bot also sends the latest real-time alerts, warnings and watches from the Space Weather Prediction Center.

This is a public service of Solar Terrestrial Dispatch and is provided as-is.