4/18/2012 -- Please fasten your SDO seatbelts -- possible 'turbulence' ahead

Published on Apr 18, 2012 by dutchsinse

The title is a tongue in cheek reference to what we are seeing on the SDO (solar dynamics observatory)

download the most recent 48 hour images/movie here:
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/

or search the date : 2012-04-16 to 2012-04-18

http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/aiahmi/

What looks like some kind of disturbance or movement of the camera --- could be some kind of unknown or unannounced spacecraft movement/alignment. Or it could be a blast from the sun... OR could be interaction with another object in space / or process in space that is unannounced as well.

Regardless of what is causing it -- we see the spacecraft camera make a turbulent move to the left right up down and diagonal. Then come back to the original point it started.

I can't find any description on the SDO site of what is occurring. If you find anything , please put it down below this video in the comment field.

Uploader Comments ( dutchsinse )

If you look at 0:51 and 0:55 it looks that there were 2 waves of energy hitting the spacecraft knocking it out of alignment. The footage is sped up, since you see a couple of days in 10 seconds. The jumping you see is the spacecraft getting back into position.
iPhoneWinterboarder 21 hours ago 7
good catch.. so much for the lens cleaning!
dutchsinse in reply to iPhoneWinterboarder 21 hours ago 3

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SDO site: Maneuvers and Images Thu, 19 Apr 2012 Last Wednesday and yesterday (April 11 and 18, 2012) we performed several spacecraft maneuvers to help calibrate our instruments. On April 4 we did an EVE cruciform and an AIA bakeout. This means the Sun moves back and forth and up and down. AIA images may be noisy (because the CCDs were warmed up to reduce contamination) and the Sun absent during this maneuver. HMI images may not show the Sun, or show it whizzing by as SDO moves.

preacher9 3 hours ago

The "Waves of Ionisation" reported by many observers was caused by a volley of 3 C flares, beginning @ Approx 12:30UT and ending around 18:00UT, same date.
That's close enough to the timestamp of the shaking for me...
Freenorg5 10 hours ago
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Have a safe day all.
Commonsensitivity 10 hours ago
- Don't know why you feel the need to attack me. The "shaking" takes place over a 5 hour period and I guess it would take that long to reposition a satellite remotely. As for the 2 energy bursts you can see them on the other sensors also as blackouts as they hit right before the shaking. It happens on regular cameras too when filming explosions. Conclusion is that the sun farted and knocked the satellite out of position and it took 5 hours to put it back into position.
  iPhoneWinterboarder in reply to Indemion0815 (Show the comment) 10 hours ago
- There is a timestamp at the bottom sherlock ...the shaking happened on 18.04.2012 between 13:00 and 19:00
  Indemion0815 in reply to iPhoneWinterboarder (Show the comment) 11 hours ago
'm not entirely convinced that this "movement" was caused by a disruption from the sun. Why wouldn't the electronics of this satellite get fried by the radiation flying passed/through it? How is it that the satellite was able to regain "balance" and remain focused on the sun? Too many questions to ask but I'm not buying it....
billythekid602 11 hours ago

maybe..and fear of death was implanted...survival and fear of death are at odds with one another...i am not implying you have any fear of death...death is also a natural process that has been taken from us...not the death the process...if there is a chance of survival..water..some food..this is an indication ..we can not continue to allow the chemical alterations/frequencies without the full truth disclosed..show us what you see nasa...
chickadillydee in reply to movement26 (Show the comment) 14 hours ago
Survival is a natural human instinct.......Is'nt it?
movement26 in reply to chickadillydee (Show the comment) 14 hours ago
no...it is nothing to be afraid of..except it is drying up the planet...what would you want to survive for anyway?? i do not...we could possible shift away from this..if they would stop using the frequencies...also the cells..and commuter transmissions are part of this electro magnetic attraction
chickadillydee in reply to movement26 (Show the comment) 14 hours ago

Is it time to get into the bunker?
movement26 in reply to chickadillydee (Show the comment) 15 hours ago
some thing is moving the camera...we are in a galactic wave..this is a series of waves that the center of the galaxy spit out some time ago..high volumes of energy are blasting the sun..and the solar system .not only have we created a nightmare of electromagnetic energy here...and it is pouring in...almost every day i see energy raining down..nasa would call it a sub storm...massive ions are falling over Europe NOW
chickadillydee 15 hours ago

Could it be related to this? From spaceweatherdotcom: "The explosion, which registered M1.7 on the Richter Scale of solar flares, was not Earth-directed, but it did hurl a CME into space. Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab have analyzed the trajectory of the cloud and found that it will hit NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft, the Spitzer space telescope, and the rover Curiosity en route to Mars. Planets Venus and Mars could also receive a glancing blow."
DoodleDesigns 21 hours ago