Looks as if there might have been some problems with the instrument, but it seems to be better now. Tried to see what the other instruments were showing during the problematic time period, but didn't see any from then.

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I don't know what happened.......but did you also notice that later on it looks like it blew up.

It looks like something happened with the instruments briefly.....but it seems to have been rectified.

-Justin

I shouldn't venture an answer here because I don't know if this is the reason for the above failure. The satellite doesn't work when it is being bombarded by an X flare particle wave. There were a couple of solar X flares in around May 30th.

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Well, BA should answer this, because he would know...

If it's not a glitch, then I'd say they shielded the instrument for a few moments to let it reset/callibrate or some such. You can see the Sun's afterglow in the first few frames that the Sun does not appear at all, and it gradually fades. That would be my guess.

edit: Hey, reboot the EIT wouldja?

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Here's a pic of a new giant flare if the site doesn't auto update to other pics. If it does just look back for the ones of the event. You can't miss it.
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/...altime-c2.html

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Gee, now that I take a second look at the flare above, I realize it just happened and it is huge. But, I think it's on the far side of the Sun because it isn't showing up on the satellite monitors. Either we'll see a reading in the next few minutes or it is on the other side.

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From the SOHO realtime images main page:
"NOTICE: SOHO will be offpointed by 2 degrees until later today (June 4)"

Given that the sun is blurred in a couple of images (like the spacecraft was
moving), I think this is the explanation.

It looks like there was another offpointabout a year ago, with the purpose being to get flat fields for the camera.

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Well, I said I shouldn't try to answer. It did look like they had turned the satellite.

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But I wonder what caused it to look like the sun was blowing up.

-Cpt Steiny

An instrument that is very sensitive to light was turned away from it's light source and allowed to adjust to the darkness. Then it was turned back towards the light and had to re-adjust to the brightness. Havent you ever gone from a dark room to bright sunlight and had the light seem to flare up brighter than ever? Same deal here, I would think, as the sensitivity re-adjusted to the bright light again.

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