This morning a more unique solar event occurred from the current sunspot 1092. A class C3 solar flare was unleashed from this spot along with a nearly simultaneous magnetic filament stretching mostly across the sun's northern hemisphere. The two events are likely connected by long-range magnetic fields.

The amazing and absolutely beautiful "solar tsunami" was captured in video by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory...

Sunspot 1092 Eruption Video (Watch Video - mpg)

along with the resulting coronal mass ejection imaged from SOHO...



Although a C3-class event represents minimal consequences on Earth, amateur astronomers and high-latitude sky watchers should be prepared for increased auroral activity around August 3rd.

This report comes from Dr. Tony Phillips at SpaceWeather.com posted August 1, 2010.