SMM C/P CME Event

24 October 1989 --- Day of Year (DOY): 297

Event Information

Event Description

Bright, complex, wide, outer loop/cavity with inner, 'light-bulb'-shaped loop/cavity and structured, complex (prominence?) core superposed on faint fan (or streamers). Big deflections. Region is blown out. Solar north is toward the upper left in each image.

Event Properties

Start/Stop Times in SMM Coronagraph Field of View: October 24 18:00 to >19:56
Central Position Angle: < 256 degrees
Width (in degrees): > 108 degrees
Event is wider; southern edge of mass ejection is beyond the sector boundary field of view.
Speed (in km/sec): 1956 <--- Loop

Image List:

October 24, 1989: 18:09 UT October 24, 1989: 18:25 UT

October 24, 1989: 19:15 UT October 24, 1989: 4 Images in one frame.

SMM Mass Ejection Catalogue:

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Andrew L. Stanger ( stanger@ucar.edu)
Last revised: 29 August 2000