Incoming coronal mass ejection?

Thursday, 22 October 2015 17:33 UTC

Images: LASCO C2 and C3 coronagraph imagery showing the coronal mass ejection from today's C4.4 solar flare.

This coronal mass ejection launched at a speed of about 800km/s which gives a possible arrival time somewhere during the first half of October 24. A shock in the solar wind is possible but we doubt there will be any significant (G1 or greater) geomagnetic disturbances from this event. Nonetheless it is something to watch out for in the days ahead, you never know with CMEs!

Note that the low energy protons and electrons as measured by ACE EPAM also started to increase following the event which is also a possible sign that there might be some ejecta on the Sun-Earth line.

Image: ACE EPAM data at 22-10-2015 17:35 UTC.