Image: “Artist Concept of the Dynamic Conditions in Space” [adapted], by NASA … https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/spaceweather/index.html … public domain

• MECHANICS OF A CORONAL MASS EJECTION (CME)
• EASTERN AND WESTERN LIMB OF THE SUN

Dear Ones,

This morning I saw Suspicious Observer’s analysis of last night’s M9 solar flare, which produced a coronal mass ejection (CME) that he says is unlikely to impact Earth, because it happened on the Eastern Limb of the Sun.

MECHANICS OF A CORONAL MASS EJECTION (CME)

Notice, at .38 – 1.02 on the video how SO describes the mechanics of a coronal mass ejection, beginning with the phrase “What you should notice …” There he describes umbral field surges [smaller loops of energy above the ‘umbra’, the dark center of the sunspot), how they enhance magnetics of the upper coronal fields (the big loops of energy above the umbra). And ther resultant explosion and reconnection … something he calls ‘repopulation’ of magnetic fields.

Video: “M9 Solar Flare, U-Yen Storm, Tornado Risk \ SO News March 8, 2015,” by SuspiciousObservers, 8 March 2015 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rnJbpfNKrA .. 

EASTERN AND WESTERN LIMB OF THE SUN

As I had not yet gotten the terminology right about the Sun, I looked up this helpful image and explanation …

Image: Sun, showing eastern limb on the left (E), western limb on the right (W), and rotation from left to right … http://www.eyes-on-the-skies.org/shs/spec-rot-gb_files/rotationdoppler.GIF ..

This web page explains the limbs and the rotation, as displayed in the NOAA sun videos, very well …

Link: “Space Weather Forecast,” by B. Burress, Chabot Space and Science Center, v. 070507, Space Weather Curriculum Developed at Chabot Space and Science Center for the Stanford Solar Center … http://solar-center.stanford.edu/SID/educators/SpaceWeatherForecast-v.070507.pdf … See the section named “East to West, or West to East,” page 12. See also the diagram of the sun’s orbit and the earth’s orbit on page 11.

In love, light and joy,
Alice B. Clagett
I Am of the Stars

Written and published on 8 March 2015; republished on 6 June 2017; revised
Originally titled: Sun, Solar Flares and CMEs
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