[South Florida DX Association] Major Solar Flare

[Bill Marx]

Space Weather News for September 7, 2005

Today, Earth-orbiting satellites detected a major X-class solar flare coming
from the sun's eastern limb. The source of the explosion is probably
returning sunspot 798, which sparked strong geomagnetic storms in August.
Although today's flare was not Earth-directed, explosions later this week
could be as the active region turns more and more toward our planet.
September, like August, could turn into a good month for auroras.