As we blast into The Year 2012 it seems prudent to gather as much Ophiuchus Power as possible from 2011 to bring forward with us.
Articles published and existing in the Astronomologer archives should suffice to record impressions and perspectives on various events for the year. But there is some important information sandwiched into the Solar Activity reports and Your Daily Ophiuchus Horoscopes over on Startistics that should not go unremembered.
Oph ‘Scopes chronicle daily planetary and asteroid energies in the Virgo through Ophiuchus sector of the Celestial Zodiac Belt (with the exception of some lost material I’m in the process of attempting to retrieve from backups).
But the following recap of the X-Class Flares and Corona Mass Ejections for 2011 deserve to go into a Memory Lane Scrapbook page of their own.
Just one last thing:
Every single X-Class Solar Flare in 2011
using UTC (Universal Coordinated Time) at Stonehenge
was focused on Constellation Ophiuchus
Early November 4, 2011
X-FLARE: Big sunspot AR1339 (described below) unleashed an X2-class solar flare on Nov. 3rd at 2027 UT. A movie from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the extreme ultaviolet flash. The flare created waves of ionization in Earth’s upper atmosphere, altering the normal progagation of radio waves over Europe and the Americas. Stay tuned for updates. Solar flare alerts: text, voice.
FYI Spaceweather News reported this as an X-2 Class Solar Flare. SOHO reported it as an X-1.9
In case anyone out there is keeping track of 2011 X-Class Solar Flares besides me let me again point out that – using the UTC time given and Stonehenge as the default location – ALL X-Class solar flares so far in 2011 feature Constellation Ophiuchus rising, setting, at Due East or Due West.
This one features Due West at the Heart of Ophiuchus. Also please note the current active Sunspot number is 1339. 39 is a multiple of 13 (not to insult anyone but 39 = 13 x 3).
The famous Step Pyramid was built at Saqqara on the West Bank of the Nile River.
- See prior Solar Activity – 2011 Sun transit of Constellation Virgo for screen captures of previous X-Class Solar Flares in 2011.
Judging by the Aussie accent of the narrator in the above movie, the “November 4″ X-1.9 Class CME being reported is probably the same one reported by Spaceweather News as an X-2 on November 3, 2011. I checked SOHO – so far there are no Solar Flares recorded for November 4. At the UTC date/time of this event, it would have been ‘tomorrow’ in OZ.
September 24, 2011 – update
SATURDAY X-FLARE: Behemoth sunspot 1302 unleashed another strong flare on Saturday morning–an X1.9-category blast at 0940 UT. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash:
The movie also shows a shadowy shock wave racing away from the blast site. This is a sign that the blast produced a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME isn’t heading directly toward Earth, but it might deliver a glancing blow to our planet’s magnetic field in the days ahead. Stay tuned for more analysis.
I have your analysis for you. How about this for an analysis? Compare the screen capture below with the screen capture of September Equinox 2011 from Stonehenge at 9:04 UT September 23.
September 24, 2011 – the early a.m.report
CHANCE OF FLARES: New sunspot 1302 has already produced one X-flare(X1.4 on Sept. 22nd), can another be far behind? NOAA forecasters put the 24-hour probability at 20%. The sheer size of the active region suggests the odds might be even higher than that:
Each of the dark cores in this snapshot from the Solar Dynamics Observatory is larger than Earth, and the entire active region stretches more than 100,000 km from end to end. The sunspot’s magnetic field is crackling with sub-X-class flares that could grow into a larger eruption as the sunspot continues to turn toward Earth. Readers with solar telescopes are encouraged to monitor developments. Solar flare alerts: text, voice.
more images: from Pavol Rapavy of Observatory Rimavska Sobota, Slovakia
First 5 X-Class Solar Flares of 2011
September 23, 2011
Happy Equinox!
No significant Solar Activity has been reported yet today. Here’s an interesting comment though from the folks at Spaceweather News:
X-flares of Solar Cycle 24: There have been only a half-dozen X-flares since the beginning of new Solar Cycle 24. Here is a complete list so far, all in 2011: Feb. 15 (X2), March 9 (X1), Aug. 9 (X7), Sept. 6 (X2), Sept. 7 (X2), Sept. 22 (X1). Before these six, the previous X-flare occured on Dec.14, 2006, (X1) during old Solar Cycle 23.
Since that’s all the Solar Activity we have to work with today on September Equinox, I guess I had better milk it for all it is worth. Any bets on what we will find? No?
February 15, 2011 (the birthday of the Love of my Life by the way not that it’s significant in context 
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March 09, 2011
August 9, 2011
The “Nadir” is the bottom of the sky. This energy transaction pictures the alignment of Constellation Ophiuchus Consciousness (all three levels of it) with the Mundane Earth Star Chakra. Because the alignment involves the Moon we infer the Divine Feminine is the ‘side’ at work here. The Caduceus/Angel of Healing/Goddess Ophiuchus is indicating the Celestial Earth Mother is Sacred Ground. This may be a new development. According to Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul, Earth as of their time was not a Sacred Planet.
The Due North direction on the Native [North] American Medicine Wheel is where the Elders sit. We face the North when we want to give Thanks.
September 06, 2011
September 07, 2011
September 22, 2011
So far every single X-Class Flare of 2011 has aligned itself in some way with Constellation Ophiuchus when the UT time is viewed from Stonehenge.
Do we see an emerging pattern here? Is this some sort of Cosmic Morse Code1 or what?
To read more about the X-flare activity in December 2006, visit Solar Physicists Stymied and Solar Star Re-ignites.
September 22, 2011
Daily Sun: 22 Sep 11
A big new sunspot is emerging at the circled location. Credit: SDO/HMI
MAJOR X-FLARE: Earth-orbiting satellites have detected a long-duration X1.4-class solar fare coming from a new sunspot on the sun’s eastern limb. The blast, which peaked at 1100 UT, produced a significant CME, but the cloud is not Earth-directed. [SDO movie] [STEREO movie]
AURORAS UNDERFOOT: Solar activity is picking up, and no one has a better view of its effect on Earth than the crew of the International Space Station. During a geomagnetic storm on Sept. 17th, astronauts recorded a must-see movie of auroras dancing underfoot:
Taken over the southern Indian Ocean, the movie spans a 23-min period from 17:22:27 to 17:45:12 GMT on Sept. 17.
Note how the underbelly of the space station glows green from the reflected light of the auroras below. Also, in the distance, Sirius the dog star and Orion the Hunter can be seen rising feet-first into the night sky.
The storm, which registered a moderate 6 on the 0-to-9 K-index scale of geomagnetic disturbances, was caused by a coronal mass ejection (CME) hitting Earth’s magnetic field. It was just a glancing blow, but with CMEs that is often enough to spark bright auroras over both ends of Earth. The space station was flying over the southern hemisphere at the time of the display. Observers in the northern hemisphere saw it too.
A similar storm could be in the offing this week. Another CME is heading toward Earth, and it appears likely to deliver a glancing blow on Sept. 22nd around 23:00 UT. Sky watchers above and below should be alert for auroras. Aurora alerts: text,voice.
MAJOR X-FLARE + CME UPDATE: Earth-orbiting satellites have detected a long-duration X1.4-class solar flare coming from a new sunspot on the sun’s eastern limb. The blast, which peaked at 1100 UT, produced a significant coronal mass ejection (CME). Using data from the SOHO-STEREO fleet of spacecraft, analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab have modeled the trajectory of the CME and concluded that the body of the cloud will not hit Earth. A minor glancing encounter with the outskirts of the CME is, however, possible on Sept. 25th. [CME:movie, forecast track]
- Morse code is a method of transmitting textual information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment. The International Morse Code encodes the Roman alphabet, the Arabic numerals and a small set of punctuation and procedural signals as standardized sequences of short and long signals called “dots” and “dashes” respectively, or “dits” and “dahs”. Because many non-English natural languages use more than the 26 Roman letters, extensions to the Morse alphabet exist for those languages.
Each character (letter or numeral) is represented by a unique sequence of dots and dashes. The duration of a dash is three times the duration of a dot. Each dot or dash is followed by a short silence, equal to the dot duration. The dot duration is the basic unit of time measurement in code transmission. Read more on Wikipedia ↩
