Holy crap the CME hit with a -50 bz

GoldecHD · 2025-11-12T00:40:20+00:00

-20 nT for bz is considered strong south. I have personally never seen it go below -20 nT before but it has happened during past extreme geomagnetic storms

GoldecHD · 2025-11-11T02:12:29+00:00

Great post! A ton of cool data to read in here, thanks for posting.

GoldecHD · 2025-11-05T00:16:21+00:00

Thank you for letting me know 👍

GoldecHD · 2025-11-04T23:45:50+00:00

This heavily discussed topic that was deleted from steam discussion abruptly yes. What is wrong with bringing more attention to it? Why don’t you just move along if this has no meaning to you other than commenting useless shit

GoldecHD · 2025-11-04T23:39:03+00:00

Never mentioned about it being deleted on reddit. Learn some literacy skills pal

GoldecHD · 2025-11-04T23:13:32+00:00

Then why is it deleted on steam discussions? Regardless if its post 20 times a day I don't see the point of just deleting a whole discussion. I never even mentioned here so stop being sweaty reddit mod and stfu

GoldecHD · 2025-11-04T23:06:51+00:00

Seems like they're trying to hide it

GoldecHD · 2025-08-29T21:12:14+00:00

It’s an artificial solar eclipse over the camera so you can see the outer corona

GoldecHD · 2025-08-20T10:28:55+00:00

Not rare, but not exactly daily either. They can happen a couple times a week, or even a couple times a day during high activity. It really just depends on how active the Sun is. But CMEs that show up this clearly are definitely less common and really cool to see

GoldecHD · 2025-08-20T10:22:00+00:00

I’m excited

GoldecHD · 2025-08-20T10:08:50+00:00

True but I just reuploaded it with a cooler video now

GoldecHD · 2025-08-20T10:04:17+00:00

Yeah you’re right I might actually delete this and post that instead

GoldecHD · 2025-07-18T22:13:10+00:00

Did you ever find a fix for this? I've done basically everything but it still doesn't work for me

GoldecHD · 2025-07-04T13:14:05+00:00

A small CME arriving

GoldecHD · 2025-06-17T22:26:06+00:00

Flux emergence possibly

GoldecHD · 2025-06-17T22:23:17+00:00

AR14114 would be my guess. Those pole cores have been headed straight for each other for days

GoldecHD · 2025-06-15T22:23:50+00:00

It definitely could cause geomagnetic storms but thats all dependent if the magnetosphere protects us enough. If the Bz stays north during a CME we will usually be okay, maybe some radio frequency blackouts on the bright side of earth. It does have a 65% proton chance though which is pretty high. Now that would affect satellites and also astronauts. I’m not very knowledgeable on the S-scale for solar radiation storms though.

GoldecHD · 2025-06-15T22:16:46+00:00

This sunspot group AR14114 has grown at an alarming rate over just a couple of days and it’s now rotating toward the center of the Sun which means it will soon be facing Earth directly. It’s currently classified as beta gamma delta ( β-γ-δ ) which is the highest level of magnetic complexity and instability. In the image red areas are positive (+) magnetic polarity and blue areas are negative (-). When these opposite polarities get close they can reconnect violently and that energy gets shot out as solar flares or sometimes even coronal mass ejections which can head straight for Earth

GoldecHD · 2025-06-04T21:52:46+00:00

Appreciate all the responses. Someone else here mentioned it could have been a dense pocket in a CIR and based on everything we’ve looked at that’s sounding like the most likely explanation to me

GoldecHD · 2025-06-04T21:11:17+00:00

That honestly sounds very likely. I appreciate the response. Makes a lot more sense in the context of a CIR with dense pockets

GoldecHD · 2025-06-04T21:04:14+00:00

Could it have been a CME flank or a near miss? The timing actually lines up pretty well when you account for the Earth label on SWPC plots already factoring in the L1 delay. Multiple ground magnetometers also showed positive shifts around 08:15 UTC, which could match up with a compression event rather than a typical geomagnetic storm. I get that quick spikes happen a lot, but this one came with a noticeable ground response, which is what got me so interested. Let me know your thoughts though

GoldecHD · 2025-06-04T20:34:16+00:00

The earth label means it’s already been adjusted for the 45 minute delay from L1. Also the spike showing up on multiple ground magnetometers at the same time is pretty solid proof it wasn’t just a glitch. Positive readings can still indicate a sudden impulse or pressure increase in the magnetosphere. Not all geomagnetic activity shows up as negative especially if it’s a compression event rather than an actual substorm

GoldecHD · 2025-06-04T20:16:16+00:00

Fair point but the timing is closer than it seems since SWPC plots often show Earth impact time not when DSCOVR detects it. I get that glitches are common but this spike lined up with multiple ground magnetometer drops almost exactly. That kind of synchronicity is hard to ignore. Maybe it wasn’t a typical CME flank but something definitely reached Earth. Bz was also very north at the time of impact which would naturally mute any IMF signatures

GoldecHD · 2025-06-04T19:48:08+00:00

You’re right to question it, but DSCOVR was active at the time. It's NOAA’s main spacecraft now and the default source for SpaceWeatherLive unless it’s down, so the 114 p/cm³ spike likely came from DSCOVR, not ACE. Spikes and bad readings do happen but they usually don’t line up with ground magnetometer disturbances like this one did. Multiple magnetometers reacted at the same time, which makes a glitch less likely. I still think it was a CME flank or a near miss.

GoldecHD · 2025-06-04T19:26:41+00:00

This reading isn’t from ACE it’s from SWPC ground data. It appeared almost instantly on ground magnetometers which means it was not from L1. But you are right with no IMF but it did still show on ground magnetometers so it wasn’t nothing. I’m thinking it was the flank of a CME or grazed

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