Aurora Tonite

[Stuart Robinson]

Mike, I just looked on the Map. Blair, NE is 41.5 North while my location is 51.3N – in other words I am about 100 miles North of Winnipeg – but even this far North I am too far South to have seen tonight’s display.

Also we did not see the display the other day as we had 8/8 clouds over the UK – in fact it seems to have been 8/8 for weeks now…

 

[mikegeukes]

So far, except for a faint glow that did not last long,
no real auroras so far on this Tuesday night in Michigan,
I keep running outside, looking, light pollution is bad here.

ADS-Auroras Deprivation Syndrome will now take over.

Mike

 

[Jon Miller]

STD (8:45 est updated fcst) is reporting that new major geomagnetic and auroral storming is starting to impact the earth with the most intense activity in the next 12 hrs.

http://www.spacew.com/

Sky's are just slightly glowing with no distinct features in the N to Ne currently here in western Ohio. It's going to be long night.

Jon Miller

 

[Aaron Kennedy]

spacew.com needs some faster bandwidth pronto!

Aaron

 

[Brad Emel]

I get my space weather information from the following sites:

http://www.spaceweather.com/
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/index.html

 

[mikegeukes]

Saw the auroras for about a half hour, south of Grand Rapids, Michigan, I forgot the time exactly between 200-230 AM EST.

Mike

 

[Stuart Robinson]

AuroraWatch Alert, 09:01 UT 10 Nov 2004:
VERY HIGH local activity, possible ongoing geomagnetic storm.
http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/

Of course it is now down over in the UK - typical

 

[Susan Strom]

How about that

Hey... rather unbelievable but the photo is the proof - a gentleman named Dennis Mammana photographed an aurora image in Borrego Springs, CA (that is in the desert east of SAN DIEGO :!:

http://spaceweather.com/aurora/images2004/...04f/Mammana.jpg

Perhaps there's hope for me and buddies at the 34th parallel after all! I checked lastnight and saw nothing but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen

Got some more encouraging text from Univ of Alaska today:

Region 0696 on the sun continues to be active, with two large events in the
last 24 hours. The latter of these events is very fast (2000 km/s) and the
effects should reach Earth early on the 11th of November, GMT.

The Earth's magnetic field continues to be disturbed by these events and we should expect to see maximum auroral activity through the 12th.

Look for aurora from a dark place with a view of the poleward horizon at
half hour intervals throughout the night with the largest activity expected
at your local midnight.

The source of this info is:

Dr. Charles Deehr, Prof. Emer. Phys.
The Geophysical Institute
University of Alaska Fairbanks

 

[mikegeukes]

SUN’s STORMS CREATE SPECTACULAR LIGHT SHOW ON EARTH
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/s2337.htm

Mike

 

[Susan Strom]

Cool link Mike, it has a better Kp chart too than the one I was using.

The values just jumped so off I go into the dark to freeze my heiney off...

good luck 11/11 is supposed to be decent.