SMM C/P CME Event

5 October 1989 --- Day of Year (DOY): 278

Event Description

Loop/cavity and beautiful, coiled, highly structured, inner (prominence) loops/cavities superposed on streamer. Streamer is disrupted. Deflections. Solar north is toward the upper left as indicated by the arrow drawn into the occulting disk; the dotted circle marks the solar photosphere.

Event Properties

Start/Stop Times in SMM Coronagraph Field of View: October 05 17:14 to 21:24
Central Position Angle: 289 degrees
Width (in degrees): 042 degrees
Speed (in km/sec): 352 <--- Outer Loop
Speed (in km/sec): 1007 <--- Outer Cavity
Speed (in km/sec): 543 <--- Inner Loop (prominence)

Image List:

October 05, 1989: 16:49 UT

October 05, 1989: 17:14 UT

October 05, 1989: 17:31 UT October 05, 1989: 18:21 UT

October 05, 1989: 18:46 UT October 05, 1989: 19:02 UT

October 05, 1989: 21:49 UT October 05, 1989: Composite Image


Detailed information on all SMM mass ejections is available in the SMM Catalogue of Coronal Mass Ejections