Solar Weather Activity
Solar Weather Activity Images. Displays the latest selected Solar Weather image. Images courtesy of NOAA SWPC, JSOC/SDO, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences — perfect for watching solar drama, but not for navigation (please don’t try steering your boat or spacecraft by them!). More images coming soon.
This plugin can be used with the companion plugin for Space Weather Prediction Center Alerts. Check it out here.
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Available settings
Choose Solar Image/Chart
Pick which WPC Black & White Surface Analysis to display.
SWPC Synoptic Map (Image) — A 'weather map', annotated by hand, of the Sun showing big features
JSOC HMI Magnetogram (Image) — A black-and-white map of the Sun's magnetic fields
JSOC HARPS (NRT Image) — A near-real-time close-up of active regions on the Sun
Bartels Music 3-Hour (Chart) - Planetary magnetic three-hour-range indices, shown in old style musical diagram
GFZ Nowcast Kp Index (Chart) - Bar chart of the hourly geomagnetic activity (Kp index)
SWPC Space Weather Overview (Chart) - A compact three-panel space-weather overview showing solar X-ray flux, proton flux, and the geomagnetic Kp index
3-Hour K-index (7-day) — Multi-Station (Image) - Seven-day 3-hour K-index bars for multiple stations (Boulder, Fredericksburg, Est. Planetary, College)
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Server-Side Render Mode
Choose how the server should convert the image
Normal (source colors)
4-tone grayscale (2-bit)
Pure black/white (1-bit)
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