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Every year, the STCE publishes a news item with an overview of the most memorable solar and space weather highlights. These include spectacular solar flares, impressive filament eruptions, huge coronal holes, and much more. Each time, a movie is compiled with several clips of each event. As it also makes reference to the associated effects such as strong geomagnetic storms, aurora sightings, extremes in solar wind parameters, and number of strong flares, the news item provides at the same time a brief status of the ongoing solar cycle.

Backside eruptions

Once again, solar observers were treated on a blemishless golden orb, with the preliminary sunspot number being "0" from 25 June onwards. While the earth-facing solar hemisphere had apparently already left for the summer holidays, the Sun's backside still showed some signs of life, displaying a few active regions.

Impressive eruption

No C-class or stronger flares, and several spotless days: Last week will not be remembered for its high solar activity. Fortunately, some spotless active regions were rounding the east solar limb

A long duration geomagnetic storm

Early May, one small and one large coronal hole transited the solar disk's centre. As expected, the associated high speed streams arrived at Earth just a few days later.

STCE Annual meeting

The 2016 edition of the STCE annual meeting led us along Roof Top Science, Cosmic Rays, 10years STCE Happy Birthday cake and a launch to Wuthering Heights - check the pictures.

European Space Weather Week

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At ESWW13 we try to make the perfect cocktail of people and knowledge that makes us Space Weather proof and strengtens our safety net. Cheers!

Spotless days

The already very low solar activity of the last few months ended into a downright traumatic experience for the solar observers when, starting on 3 June, the Sun became totally devoid of its so familiar speckles. Indeed, from 3 till 7 June, no sunspots were observed, and the daily estimated sunspot number was at comatose levels (flat "0") for 5 consecutive days. The gif underneath shows SDO/HMI imagery of the solar disk from 1 till 8 June.

STCE annual meeting

A trip along Roof top science, cosmic rays and Wuthering Heights. 

Quiet week, lovely events

Solar flaring activity was once again restricted to a handful of minor C-class flares this week. A few regions drew away all attention: Departing NOAA 2546, emerging NOAA 2548, and ...

Zemax

A two-day course on the OpticStudio software, a optical design software. The course is intended for beginners who have a basic background in optics. The exact subjects to be covered will be decided by the participants and the organisor. The dates will be choosen based on the availability of the participants and the trainer from the Zemax company.

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