A few very active sunspots have been churning out blobs of solar particles in the form of coronal mass ejections (CME) over the past week, but the majority of this solar wind has been directed away from Earth. Space weather forecasters predicted there would be a 60% chance that some of this material would intercept our atmosphere last night and spark a G1 storm. Naturally I took notice and drove up above the valley haze to Murphy Dome for a clear view to the north. I framed this golf-ball-like radar globe in the shot and waited for the green bands to appear. Minutes went by, then hours, then a couple of hours...and nothing. It was in the negative 20's out, so I gave up. Still, the golf-ball looks pretty cool.
For an animation of the much anticipated but so far dud of a solar storm, click HERE. The sun is in the middle and Earth is the green dot.
Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM, ISO-400 f/4.5 @ 10 sec.
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