Active Region AR2192 heading towards the limb

[davenn]

Look at those beautiful coronal loops coming out of the Active Region AR2192. We can see them as solar plasma is attached to the magnetic field lines extending outward of the region and looping back into the Sun.

Coronal loops are found around sunspots and in active regions. These structures are associated with the closed magnetic field lines that connect magnetic regions on the solar surface. Many coronal loops last for days or weeks, but most change quite rapidly. This image was taken in extreme ultraviolet light.

Credit: https://www.facebook.com/NASA.Little.SDO?fref=photo

This has been the most active SS region so far this cycle, producing at least 5 X class flares and many M class ones. The region has been reported as the largest in size in the last 20 years.
The region is now a day or 2 away from disappearing around the limb of the sun.
Will it still be kicking when it reappears in a couple of weeks ?

cheers
Dave

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Thanks for the post! Sorry you aren't generating responses at the moment. Do you have any further information, come to any new conclusions or is it possible to reword the post?

 

[davenn]

well 2 weeks later and old AR2192 reappeared as new region AR2209
unfortunately it was only a pale shade of its former appearance and has only produced a few M class flares

Dave