Wednesday 16 October 2013

Recent Geomagnetic Event 2013-10-08 20:00:00

At 07:09 on the 5th of October, LASCO observed a CME event, with an angular width > 270 degrees. This indicates that it was potentially a halo CME.

LASCO recorded a median velocity of 650km/s.

The event was observed at the same time by Stereo 1 and Stero 2:



The event was registered by the magnetometer installed in the Rosse Observatory just after 20:00:00 on the 8th of October.
Despite this, the K-index did not rise above 2 for the disturbance.


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