wxKobold

Remembering 2025/11/11 and wishing I could see it again

That's cool. Looks like a sport I would have enjoyed picking up if it existed in any form near me!

Curling fascinates me, looks like such a fun sport but I have genuinely never seen it outside the olympics. How does one end up on a pathway to not only learn/play curling, but get Olympics good at it? Do schools out there have curling classes/clubs? Always wondered

Animation of sunspot group 4366: rapid growth – in 36 hours from almost nothing to a complex mess.

We've seen it ramp up from low end C flares to upper end C flares (most recently a C7ish flare). Very intriguing region to look at on HMI MAG too.

AR4366 right now lookin like a pretty good region to watch! Pretty much nonstop flaring in the 13-hour loop. Lot of magnetic complexity right now too.

Looking into what else to add, might include Kp, DST, etc. Might also incorporate some ground based magnetometer data at some point, but not yet.

Over the past few days I've built somewhat of a CME impact/geomagnetic event viewer! Currently pulls:
ACE (Magnetometer + EPAM + SWEPAM)
DSCOVR (Magnetometer)
GOES 08-19 (Magnetometer, XRS [X-Ray Flux])

Here's the Oct/Nov 2003 Solar Storm sequence plotted out with all available data!

How y'all doing in the big 2026 so far?

Looking for opinions on my plots here -- do dashed lines (for 5, 10, 15, 20 solar radii) look/work better or do solid rings do? The dashes are slightly thicker as well, but only just. Trying to figure out which version to plot on my website

He is officially gone, as of around 10-10:15PM 12/10. This certainly makes this "this day in history" day a bit rougher for me..

rip ed :(

the worst part of owning cats is when they leave a massive hole in your heart when they leave

This is actually insane! It looks like a hellish demon trying to escape the sun!

Map showing the coldest season of the year.

Ended up getting this working quite a bit better! Here's a few more:

4294 + 4296,
3664,
4294 + 4292,
4290 + 4291

Surprised it's doing a pretty good job of picking up only umbra/penumbra! Not perfect but better than I expected!

Bored today so I put some time into building an automated sunspot detection/measurement script. Not perfect but does a decent job I think! Also really, really nice to be able to overlay it on magnetometer data like that.

An absolutely tremendous active region has rotated into view over the past few days. It is huuuuuuuuge! Very excited to see what sort of geomagnetic incidents this thing sends our way in the next two weeks or so.

Can't forget former 4274 peeking around the NE too! Two intense solar regions at once!

Been having fun watching SDO imagery today... lots and lots of action on the limb!

From 4/27/2011, a short multi-tilt storm-following loop from ARMOR of the Hackleburg tornado. Some pretty incredible temporal resolution is possible like this when you interleave the different tilts! You get some shakiness but overall this turned out quite incredible. Love the merger stream!

Also a short time lapse video of the proton aurora being extraordinarily bright and dynamic!

Anyone else get absolutely dazzled by the ridiculous amount of proton aurora on 11/11? All night it was showing up in very quick bursts!

Take up competitive Mario Kart and become XelKartz for a while!

Cannot get over how magical and surreal this picture looks. A very sharp contrasting line between the incredible auroral crimson and the black night sky. This was taken looking west around 10:49 PM from central MO.

Goodbye Banzai, my friend, best buddy, and family member of the past 14ish years. Huge hole left in my heart right now :(

(The neighbor turned on his truck. Apparently he skipped LED and HID lights and went for miniature suns for headlights..)

Probably my favorite aurora photo from 11/12.

My expectations were very low after how 11/12 started.. But that 10PM substorm actually puts it above 10/10 in my books. Without context of the insanity of the day prior, we'd all probably be screaming and shouting about the best event of 2025 on November 12th. Instead, it felt like a quiet echo.

Finally got around to skimming through my DSLR pics! The first one with the crazy proton aurora is actually the very first DSLR photo I took of the night. Absolutely insane to have captured this collection of photos from Missouri!

Some of my favorite shots from 11/11, taken from east central MO. Some of these from my front yard. Going to be pretty hard to ever see a better aurora event from my house than this one! The colors were insane, and everything was so excessively naked-eye visible!