Last major update issued on November 9, 2006 at 05:15 UTC.
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Recent activity
The geomagnetic field was inactive to very quiet on November 8. Solar wind speed ranged between 274 and 311 km/s (all day average 293 km/s - decreasing 1 km/s from the previous day).
Solar flux measured at 20h UTC on 2.8 GHz was 86.4. The planetary A index was 1 (STAR Ap - based on the mean of three hour interval ap indices: 0.9). Three hour interval K indices: 00001000 (planetary), 00002000 (Boulder).
The background x-ray flux is at the class B1 level.
At midnight there were 2 spotted regions on the visible solar disk. The solar flare activity level was very low. No C class events were recorded during the day.
Region 10921 decayed slowly and quietly.New region 10923 rotated into view late on November 7 and was numbered the next day by NOAA/SEC. The region must have decayed over the last few days as it is now fairly quiet and spotwise not that complex. C flares are possible.
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs)
November 6-8: No obvious partly or fully Earth directed CMEs were detected in LASCO imagery.