Almost exactly 24 hours apart, too.  24h18m to be exact.  They were the 4th and 5th ones of Cycle 24.  No real increase in 10.7cm flux yet, though; still at or below the March-April peaks.

A picture of Sunspot 1302 by Dutch astrophotographer Emil Kraaikamp:

http://spaceweather.com/images…..ficent.jpg

Simply amazing!

Post edited 8:58 pm – January 27, 2012 by Nosfer

X1.7…fortunately aimed away from us.  Even so we seem to be coming down from the spike of activity we had the last few months and January seems to be aiming for a bit below the minimum of the Max-Mean-Min "forecast" as far as the SSN although the 10.7cm flux is right about at the max forecast value (still less than the preceding three months)

Solar fields seem to be diverging a little, especially the northern so no flip of polarity for a while making this to likely be a drawn out cycle.

I'd also point out, since 1429 is now geofacing, that the earth is in direct line for the CME and for any subsequent ones for the next few days.

By the way, these are from ground-based magnetometers so indicative of surface conditions here on the planet.  Not sure why meter is not picking anything up.  Batteries are good, no drain from entities.

Some possible activity now…UPS batteries are doing AVR (automatic voltage regulator) Trim meaning they are cutting the incoming voltage down.

It's Learjet said:

I give up. I think this meter only picks up ghosts.

It's looking like the magnetic field of the solar wind is pointing north so this may not be that strong of a storm.  If it should go south for any significant periods of time it will intensify.  As it stands, though, this impact may be less severe than yesterday's.