If anyone is in a location with the right weather to see them, the auroras, or Northern and Southern Lights, are going crazy tonight. Several webcams I've checked are showing very considerable activity. Unfortunately, monsoon season has arrived here, blocking any view of the sky. https://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/aurora-forecast-northern-hemisphere.jpg
Sadly, I'm not seeing anything right now (3:45 AM local time) here in the southern Twin Cities of Minnesota.
doh! missed this. BUT, i did see them 3 times already in PA over the years. First two times were roughly 20 and 24 years ago with the whole sky lit up. Third time was roughly 5? years ago and not much but enough for the whole fam to see em.
Upper Northwest Montana, has been seeing little smatterings to the north for several days of the past couple weeks. Would likely be more visible, but for the often heavy cloud cover during these seasonal longer evenings .
There are lots of photos posted in Spaceweather's Aurora Gallery this morning. Interested readers can go there to check on locations to see if anyone nearby posted pictures. From North America, two so far from my state (Anacortes and Edmonds), a half dozen places in Montana, also from Wyoming, Nebraska, Illinois, Cape Cod, and innumerable places north of them. More from Europe and Australia too. And the most southerly sightings in N.A.: faint photographic only (not visual) from near Joshua Tree CA, and visual from Lincoln CA. Keep checking back, more photos from additional locations are continually being added.
Are you sure about that? There are a couple pictures of the Australis edition, posted from Snake Valley Observatory.
I didn't even notice the Australis ones on the maps.... Snake Valley is a long way South of us, and that's really on the edge of where they were visible. Still, though, that is an unusually long way North for the Aurora Australis. They're very rarely visible anywhere on the Australian Mainland, but they do pop up in Tasmania occasionally.
been cloudy and rain last week and continuing here. My favorite so far this year is the animated gif from Healy AK Oct 10th . Lots a nice stills as far as the eye can see into Feb too. Thanks for the link up fuzz
I didn't call out @hkmb on this one because it's a 6-vs-0.5 dozen thing. I'm nearly 1100 miles from the green slimy part of the probability blob, while folks who identify as living in Sydney are probably more like 500 miles....or 800 clicks if you live in a developing nation that has to outsource their submarine production. It's kinda hard to suss out due to the vagaries of cartography....and our living on a flat earth.....sorta. It's technically "a slightly irregular oblated spheroid" squished down a little bit on the top and bulging out a tiny bit in the waist - as many of us are. Besides....if you're outside the blob.....you're outside the blob.
There are actually numerous pictures posted from "outside the blob". Not just from Cape Cod, Illinois, and Wyoming, but also Nebraska, Colorado, even California and southern New Mexico. Though these are not the gorgeous dancing ribbons of light high in the sky that northern people see, but rather faint patches of light very low on the horizon. Usually obscured by any haze or suburban light pollution. One of the California sighting was not even seen by naked eye, but just by extended exposure on an astronomical camera. These photos may not be very impressive to the masses, but they are to the amateur astronomers knowing how difficult it is to detect these events at all under these conditions. I didn't retain any images of "the blob" as it swept past Europe, so can't compare it to locations of posted photos. It was very strong there too, though still well below the peak shown in my OP.
On the long, long list of things that are embarrassing about Australia, this is currently very near the top, just below our environment policies and just above Mel Gibson.
Here are several time lapse videos put together: See incredible night skies made by geomagnetic storm
No, the forum website is munging the link when I try to post. I tried several edits, it works for me now, so try viewing it again.
I couldn't get the video to play just by clicking on the link. unless it just took way longer to load than I was willing to wait. alternative that worked for me go to cnn.com click on the 3 bars in the upper right corner that opens a black and white menu page - at the bottom right of the menu page is the Weather option and the sub option Video clicking video took me to a page where I could clink click a link to the video and it played. be patient, it takes a while to load, at least it did for me this morning. First clear night locally and I was out at 6am 1/2 mile out on Lake Ontario, All I could see were the lights of Toronto and maybe Mississauga reflecting off what looked like thick clouds to the northwest of my location. the sunrise an hour later was pretty - for another sunrise, at least is was visible today.
