New big sunspot will stare right into our eyeballs in few days from now...

It'll look pretty neat once it's in the center

From when is this photo? And where can I find sunspot tracking site?

date/time it's in the filename
2016 05 15_ 11:30 00

latest images:
sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/

current month archive is here:
sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/browse/2016/05/
click on a day, wait to load (heavy), then find the 4096_HMIIC.jpg (4096 is the pixels)

other useful websites:

STEREO (it shows the upcoming sunspots from the farside east)
stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/beacon/beacon_secchi.shtml

Solar Terrestrial Activity Report
solen.info/solar/

Sunspot Index and Long-term Solar Observations
sidc.be/silso/

International Service of Geomagnetic Indices (ISGI) + Kp index
isgi.unistra.fr/
gfz-potsdam.de/en/section/earths-magnetic-field/data-products-services/kp-index/quicklook/

Cosmic Rays:
cosmicrays.oulu.fi/

spaceweather.com/
solarham.net/
swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
users.telenet.be/j.janssens/SC24web/SC24.html
landscheidt.info/

That'll happen when your entire country is a fault line.

Thanks

This is some hellstar remina shit.

It looks like that region 12546 will have a big companion on the other side of the Sun equator. T minus 4 days?

Forgot to mention that 4 or 3 days is a relatively long time: a new sunspot can pop out anywhere and be named 12547. There are at least 3 regions already that can generate a spot, even two.

high chance of a minor storm in a couple of hours:

swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts

>sunspot caused that earthquake

is this a meme, or legit

There are studies correlating earthquakes with magnetic storms, volcanic activity with cosmic rays, solar flares with blackouts, and so on. Everything is interconnected. In the last thread on the subject we posted a study saying that major earthquakes happens when the Ap index is low (7 or under) or high (22 or above): at the moment the average for May is projected to be 14.6, so a major event is probably not going to happen, but who knows...

Well, the chance of it being real is 50%.

It's complete nonsense. Veeky Forums has been infected by pseudoscience.

So post them, let us all see how bullshit these studies are.

update

Tried to observe sunspot using welding glass, raybans and pair of binoculars. I also did it on sunset, to get boost to magnification from atmosphere. I couldn't see anything unfortunetly. I wish I had solar filter for my telescope.
>any tips on observing it?

spectacular flare captured by LASCO Coronagraph (Venus wasn't hit); see animation:

swpc.noaa.gov/products/lasco-coronagraph

yeah, a fat red sunset is the way to go

nice

but which sun would win? :^)

sun spots dim the suns strength, why does this matter? Earthquakes cant be possibly connected

two new tiny sunspots are appearing, but they seems connected with other regions
the upcoming big brother is still hiding on the East side but looks quite active already

big brother looks huge and surrounded by other spots
I wonder if they'll go with only one region name

Not really, the surrounding area of a sunspot radiates more than a spotless zone. In general, the sunspot number indicates solar energetic activity and correlates with total solar irradiation.

update
waiting patiently another full day for the new region to be clearly visible

Kotlyakov is predicting a very weak Solar Cycle 25

science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/10may_longrange/

...

the new region is getting weaker?

sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/latest/mpeg/latest_1080_0171.mp4

Its happing landslides in sri lanka and fucking earthquake in ecuador off the charts

>earthquake in ecuador

it's only a 6.7
wake me up at next 7.5+

Can someone explain to me what these sunspots are and what/how do they create danger ?

They had a 7.8 nit long ago
cnn.com/2016/04/16/americas/magnitude-7-4-earthquake-hits-ecuador/

earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kml.php
Live

7.8 not long ago cnn.com/2016/04/19/americas/ecuador-earthquake/

A sunspot is just a cooler region of the Sun's photosphere where a magnetic flux tube has emerged and restricts the upward convection of heat causing the surface to cool.

They have nothing to do with Earthquakes. The connection OP claims is pure pseudoscience, it has never been established.

is it trying to look like Sardinia or France?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardinia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France

do you know any sunspot in the past that looked like a familiar object?

Solar Cycle 24 has beaten SC 7 and now is the weakest since SC 6 (December 1810 - May 1823):

notrickszone.com/2016/05/19/current-solar-cycle-now-3rd-weakest-ever-observed-least-active-since-dalton-minimum-200-years-ago/

Is our sun dying?

Goddamn photino birds.

almost in the middle!

power falls out when its at the middle.
OP never got his centered spot on the middle picture.

Did we die yet?

last time something happened some other also happened