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Astronomy => Alerts! Questions? Discussions... => Topic started by: Sue on Jun 22, 2015, 22:37:24

Title: Aurora alert. Storm underway..
Post by: Sue on Jun 22, 2015, 22:37:24
http://www.aurora-service.eu/aurora-forecast/
Title: Re: Aurora alert. Storm underway..
Post by: MarkS on Jun 22, 2015, 23:12:17
What a shame about the cloud and drizzle  :!
Title: Re: Aurora alert. Storm underway..
Post by: Rick on Jun 22, 2015, 23:24:31
...and the orange glow reflected off all that cloud from the excess of street-lighting below. :/
Title: Re: Aurora alert. Storm underway..
Post by: Rick on Jun 22, 2015, 23:52:37
This simulation's quite interesting:

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/wsa-enlil-solar-wind-prediction

(I'm not sure how long it'll be there for, though.)
Title: Re: Aurora alert. Storm underway..
Post by: MarkS on Jun 22, 2015, 23:58:06
I had a look outside from the bottom of the garden looking North but all I saw was cloud.
Title: Re: Aurora alert. Storm underway..
Post by: Rick on Jun 23, 2015, 09:04:34
Activity only now dropping off. Other websites worth a quick peek are:

http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/

http://www.marsport.org.uk/observatory/yesterday.htm
Title: Re: Aurora alert. Storm underway..
Post by: Rick on Jun 23, 2015, 13:36:57
Some folk got lucky: http://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2015/06/23/large-solar-storm-brings-spectacular-views-of-the-aurora/

...including ISS: http://www.cityam.com/218607/red-aurora-image-international-space-station-wows-world
Title: Re: Aurora alert. Storm underway..
Post by: Carole on Jun 23, 2015, 18:42:35
QuoteA large solar storm resulted in the northern lights being seen as far south as Dorset and Bournemouth on Monday night.

Typical our luck to have cloud.

Carole
Title: Re: Aurora alert. Storm underway..
Post by: Rick on Jun 24, 2015, 17:09:30
There may be more to come...