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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1136151 - Posted: 5 Aug 2011, 5:07:26 UTC - in response to Message 1135811.   This is gonna be good, there are clouds in the sky, and we still have some blue in the north part of the sky, and the Aurora is so bright...... ID: 1136151 ·
rob smith Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22803 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380	Message 1136183 - Posted: 5 Aug 2011, 8:05:19 UTC Too murky here to see anything, but we were a bit marginal for anything really good. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1136183 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1136385 - Posted: 5 Aug 2011, 19:58:43 UTC - in response to Message 1136151.   Last modified: 5 Aug 2011, 20:01:37 UTC If you live in Australia you may be able to see the Aurora right now! Things look good for Scandinavia. ID: 1136385 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1136459 - Posted: 5 Aug 2011, 21:47:21 UTC - in response to Message 1136397.   Last modified: 5 Aug 2011, 21:59:02 UTC Wow! Time for the lead lined helmets. This is the biggest I have seen this year! It's a KP 8 event. "Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab say that the CME impact may have strongly compressed Earth's magnetic field, directly exposing satellites in geosynchronous orbit to solar wind plasma. Stay tuned for updates on this aspect of the storm." ID: 1136459 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1136472 - Posted: 5 Aug 2011, 22:00:54 UTC - in response to Message 1136459.   "Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab say that the CME impact may have strongly compressed Earth's magnetic field, directly exposing satellites in geosynchronous orbit to solar wind plasma. Stay tuned for updates on this aspect of the storm." This is getting real big! ID: 1136472 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1136502 - Posted: 6 Aug 2011, 0:16:15 UTC - in response to Message 1136472.   We now have a strong geomagnetic storm going on, also aurora has been seen as low as Illinois and Oregon (typically 50° geomagnetic lat.). ID: 1136502 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1136589 - Posted: 6 Aug 2011, 4:33:40 UTC - in response to Message 1136502.   Last modified: 6 Aug 2011, 5:18:56 UTC It is still light out and the lights in the sky have started already. It could get all the way down to northern California. Now I am amazed, the whole sky is covered in light. ID: 1136589 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1136613 - Posted: 6 Aug 2011, 5:31:42 UTC - in response to Message 1136589.   This is a night! ID: 1136613 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1137225 - Posted: 7 Aug 2011, 14:47:53 UTC Here is a pix of what the lights looked like here in Alberta We now have TV, power, and internet back in this area. ID: 1137225 ·
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20	Message 1137231 - Posted: 7 Aug 2011, 14:57:24 UTC Who needs TV with a natural light show like that? Wish I could see them, but I'm too far south. I HAVE seen them in real-time, once when I was stationed in Scotland, and one other time, when we surfaced the night before entering port at Adak, Alaska. Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired ID: 1137231 ·
Mike Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 34566 Credit: 79,922,639 RAC: 80	Message 1137270 - Posted: 7 Aug 2011, 16:41:11 UTC Thats stunning Ian. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. ID: 1137270 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1137307 - Posted: 7 Aug 2011, 17:50:47 UTC - in response to Message 1137225.   Last modified: 7 Aug 2011, 17:53:57 UTC I forgot that image was taken by Olivier Du Tré, in Cochrane, Alberta. I can hardly wait till I can afford a better camera to put on my scope. These shots were taken further south than I am. Lovely work from that person! ID: 1137307 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1137569 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 10:08:22 UTC - in response to Message 1137307.   It's just not stopping, I just got up to get the paper and there in the far north is a band of colour...... ID: 1137569 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1137599 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 14:16:09 UTC - in response to Message 1137569.   Look out down under. If you have clear sky in the south of your countries, look up! ID: 1137599 ·
Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4	Message 1137624 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 16:17:25 UTC Last modified: 8 Aug 2011, 16:29:49 UTC Recent Active Sun Prompts Stunning Auroras Over England Aurora on the River Tay, Newburgh, Fife, Scotland Credit: photosbyzoe ID: 1137624 ·
rob smith Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22803 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380	Message 1137631 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 16:38:36 UTC Last modified: 8 Aug 2011, 16:40:04 UTC Over SCOTLAND - as the caption says. ENGLAND is that place down below the boarder (its a bit like mixing up Canada and the USA, only even more life threatening) (OK, so the article does mention Cumbria). Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1137631 ·
rob smith Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22803 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380	Message 1137632 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 16:41:54 UTC All we managed in the English Midlands was a faint late night northern horizon glow which was the wrong colour for the street lights which normally despoil our night sky. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1137632 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1137634 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 16:47:23 UTC - in response to Message 1137631.   Still a massive show in the sky. This went off all over the world down to below 40 degrees north and south latitude. This image taken by: Gordon Mack Aug. 6, 2011 Location: Thurso, Caithness, Scotland ID: 1137634 ·
rob smith Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22803 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380	Message 1137648 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 17:22:19 UTC Hmm, clouds are clearing so there might be a chance of seeing something in a few hours time as the sun is way to bright just now as I sit in my office wearing sunglasses to see the screen! (Its 18:21hrs local time) Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1137648 ·
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0	Message 1137721 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 20:56:06 UTC - in response to Message 1137648.   Last modified: 8 Aug 2011, 21:12:36 UTC We just had an X-ray Solar Flare M3, on the sun, these can cause aurora at some later time, 6 - 12 hours I think. It looks like a good year for light shows, things could get better. ID: 1137721 ·

 
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