Eastern Limb Arrival

NOAA 10980 arrival on Eastern Limb
By Erika Rix

2007 12 31

Solar

NOAA 10980 arrival on Eastern Limb

Erika Rix

There were a few events of activity on the Eastern limb that day and it was reported
by Spaceweather.com that a C8 class flare “hurled a “bright CME into space.”

Gary Palmer had an excellent animation on the site the next day if you haven’t seen
it yet.  www.spaceweather.com 

Evidently excitement started about 0110 UTC.  I observed from about 1850 UT – 2005
UT.  The following sketches reflect that observation period.

Here is the animation I created with my sequence of sketches of the Eastern limb.  It
lasted from 1900 UT – 2000 UT. 

Sketch Media:

Black Strathmore Artagain paper

White Conte’ Crayon and pencil

White Prang pencil

Charcoal

White vinyl eraser

Scanned in Photoshop, adjustments made on contrast and brightness as well as
cleaning stray marks

Animation created in Animation Shop