Soho Bakeout?

[circumpolar]

Does anyone know what a Bakeout means?

Maybe it's a sign of solar activity?

http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/

[seeker372011]

check

http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/CCD_bakeout.html

it happens from time to time -nothing to do with what's happening on the sun