Aurora 2024 March 24 around 03:20 UT

[Rick]

Four "maxpixel" frames from my Global Meteor Network camera showing auroral activity over Gloucester last night. There was a geomagnetic storm overnight that reached G2 (Kp6) around 03:23, G3 (Kp7) at 03:38 and G4 (Kp8) by 04:04 UTC. My camera caught auroral activity between about 02:50 and 04:02. These are four of the best-defined auroral display patterns it caught.


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[Ivor]

Alas I don't there has been a star visible for more 30mins for about 3 weeks around the South East

[Rick]

One of the side-benefits of running a Global Meteor Network camera is that the daily reports give an idea of how clear (or not) the sky has been. So far this month we have had what it considers clear skies on six nights, and a one or two other nights it saw enough starry sky to try looking for meteors through the passing clouds. These are the March nights it's spotted meteors so far:

10/11 March 2.83 hours ( 3 meteors)
13/14 March 2.50 hours (10 meteors)
14/15 March 9.08 hours (29 meteors)
16/17 March 0.00 hours ( 3 meteors)
18/19 March 4.33 hours (30 meteors)
22/23 March 2.83 hours ( 4 meteors)
23/24 March 5.17 hours (15 meteors and some auroral activity)
24/25 March 0.00 hours ( 2 meteors)
28/29 March 0.00 hours ( 3 meteors)
29/30 March 0.00 hours ( 1 meteor)

[Rick]

Seeing reports else-Net of an earlier display (around 23:30 UTC on 23rd March) seen well from Oxfordshire and Yorkshire. It does show on my meteor camera, but through a lot of fast moving cloud.

[Carole]

Seen by my chums on Norfolk, and Roger got it on his All Sky camera in Worthing, and I know someone images it in Cornwall.

[Dave A]

Nice image Rick