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Detected by Patricia Jibben, Submitted at 2017-08-23T18:50:01
2017-08-18T01:59:07 --> 2017-08-18T02:16:20
This event does not have a corresponding GOES event id.
Detected by Patricia Jibben, Submitted at 2017-08-23T18:38:27
2017-08-17T20:54:04 --> 2017-08-17T21:19:16
This jet doesn't have a corresponding GOES event. The event initially looks like some loops activating but near the end of the event you can see the jet.
Detected by Patricia Jibben, Submitted at 2017-08-23T18:32:03
2017-08-16T21:14:48 --> 2017-08-16T21:33:15
The large number of small spots makes for interesting observations in 2832. But if you ignore the rapid sunspot evolution you'll see couple of other interesting features that appear between some bright plage. There are no spots nearby but a dark diffuse feature appears along with several small bright beads rapidly moving east. This event has corresponding features in the other wavelengths. There is a smaller version of this happening nearby and seems it to be related to this event in the 2832.
Detected by Patricia Jibben, Submitted at 2017-08-23T18:03:44
2017-08-16T19:09:35 --> 2017-08-16T19:48:56
This active region is great for observing small flares and jets because there are several pores surrounding the two and later three main spots. This active region also undergoes rapid sunspot evolution and both flux emergence and flux cancellation are observed in 2832. In this observation sequence there is a B2.4 flare that is in the upper left FOV 19:45-19:54 UT. The slit does not cross this event and IRIS observed the flare for a few frames. A small reoccurring jet sits in the middle of the FOV and the slit crosses the event several times. The start and end times defined for this event are those for the jet and not the flare.
Detected by Patricia Jibben, Submitted at 2017-08-23T17:39:06
2017-08-16T01:33:32 --> 2017-08-16T02:33:11
There are two minor flares observed in 1400 and 1330. First, a B2.8 flare, peak time: 01:43 and then a B3.7 flare, peak time at 02:20 UT. In Mg II 2796, the flares have the bright base but the feature looks more like a surge along the flare trajectory.
Detected by halocme, Submitted at 2017-08-20T23:06:09
2017-08-04T01:20:25 --> 2017-08-04T06:50:25
Without enhancing the contrast, one can hardly see anything, but 171 A images seem to capture a slowly rising and then disconnected flux rope. No CME.
Detected by halocme, Submitted at 2017-08-20T22:58:14
2017-08-03T09:25:13 --> 2017-08-03T10:35:13
The eruption is so diffuse that one can hardly see it in intensity images. Difference images show it more clearly. A brightening suggests that the one leg of the erupting structure was on the visible side.
Detected by halocme, Submitted at 2017-08-20T22:52:18
2017-08-03T09:00:09 --> 2017-08-03T10:00:09
Disturbances that first started as a jet-like ejection are seen as waves that affect the large-scale corona.
Detected by halocme, Submitted at 2017-08-20T22:43:22
2017-08-01T23:00:09 --> 2017-08-02T02:16:09
This event took a usual step of slow rising motions before the eruption. The background corona does not seem to be largely affected. Its associated CME is narrow (http://spaceweather.gmu.edu/seeds/mkmovie_ql.php?cme=20170802.004807.w041.v0232.p053&frame=17).
Detected by halocme, Submitted at 2017-08-20T22:31:30
2017-07-30T09:00:09 --> 2017-07-30T10:09:45
This gives an impression that some small structure outside ARs somehow got unstable and erupted. No CME resulted.
Detected by halocme, Submitted at 2017-08-20T22:21:56
2017-08-01T00:00:09 --> 2017-08-14T12:00:09
In the previous rotation, this region was AR 12665 and responsible for several noteworthy eruptions including the Bastille Day 2017 event. On the backside it produced an eruption, seen as a bright symmetric halo CME, which was arguably as intense as the Carrington event. However, the region has done nothing of note since then, not even flares. This movie of its disk passage essentially shows no major changes in the photospheric magnetic field and hence the overlying coronal structure for two weeks.
Detected by gchintzo, Submitted at 2017-08-18T20:49:27
2017-08-16T06:30:09 --> 2017-08-16T11:30:09
Source AR12671 undergoes confined flaring (no CME signatures in LASCO coronagraphs) and launches a (faint) coronal wave towards the coronal hole. Hints of reflection off the coronal hole boundaries are visible.
Detected by gchintzo, Submitted at 2017-08-18T20:43:57
2017-08-16T06:30:09 --> 2017-08-17T10:00:09
An observation of a long filament extending towards the solar limb. Towards the limb, where the axis of the filament closely follows the line of sight, a dark cavity is seen in the corona. The bulk of the filament erupts but the cavity stays intact until it vanishes. The cavity vanishes quickly enough to rule out the case of non-favorable orientation that leads to its invisibility, but rather heating/cooling.
Detected by gchintzo, Submitted at 2017-08-22T19:23:13
2017-08-15T08:30:09 --> 2017-08-15T19:20:09
NOAA AR 12671 was the source of a slow CME (~170 km s-1; http://spaceweather.gmu.edu/seeds/mkmovie_ql.php?cme=20170815.122408.w071.v0163.p087&frame=19).
Detected by gchintzo, Submitted at 2017-08-18T18:45:10
2017-08-17T12:30:09 --> 2017-08-17T17:20:09
A second CME eruption ~2 hours after the first one, originating from the back side of the sun (i.e. source region still behind the visible hemisphere).
Detected by gchintzo, Submitted at 2017-08-18T18:27:46
2017-08-16T23:00:09 --> 2017-08-17T12:00:09
A low coronal signature of a CME "bubble" seen at the east limb. The source region is yet to be brought into view by the rotation of the sun.
Detected by gchintzo, Submitted at 2017-08-18T18:18:43
2017-08-16T23:00:09 --> 2017-08-18T04:30:09
A solar prominence (i.e. a filament seen at the solar limb) rises and eventually erupts. There is a possibility for a CME event for this eruption.
Detected by gchintzo, Submitted at 2017-08-18T18:05:57
2017-08-15T07:10:09 --> 2017-08-16T05:30:09
A large coronal hole extending from the north pole towards mid latitudes. Note the predominantly unipolar field distribution (green color)
Detected by Charles Kankelborg, Submitted at 2017-08-14T19:06:59
2017-08-08T04:21:31 --> 2017-08-08T04:37:21
Series of explosive events in quiet sun network.
Detected by gchintzo, Submitted at 2017-08-14T18:00:03
2017-08-13T21:20:09 --> 2017-08-14T13:20:09
Three consecutive eruptions spaced apart by ~2 hours each in an AR that the solar rotation brings it to the visible hemisphere of the sun. It is not clear whether these eruptions were CMEs (lack of real time data at the time of this event annotation).
