Aurora Alert
AuroraWatch, run by the Space Plasma Environment and Radio Science at Lancaster University have issued two alerts about possible activity (Northern/Southern lights) within the last five hours. The first was an amber alert and the second, issued at 12.01 BST, was classed as "VERY HIGH local activity, possible ongoing geomagnetic storm". The real-time graph shows a lot of activity. The planetary k-index is up to 9. This may be linked to the M-class flares of Monday from sunspot 798. If is dark where you are right now, get outside and have a look for some aurora. I wish it wasn't the middle of the day here.
Comments: Aurora Alert
Ian has some live aurora blogging on his site with some nice shots of the Aurora Australis (southern lights). Check them out or even better: go have a look for yourself if it is dark where you are. Go on! Please post a message here if you see anything interesting.
Posted by Stuart on Wednesday 24th Aug 2005 (14:27 UTC)
The skies are dark here in the middle of the lakes, unfortunately it's also very cloudy! The Moon looked good at 3am, but only briefly before the clouds returned :-(
Posted by Megan on Thursday 25th Aug 2005 (13:30 UTC)
So Stuart, did you see anything? I've put up some more images and links over at Astroblog.
Posted by Ian Musgrave on Thursday 25th Aug 2005 (14:29 UTC)
Not a sausage. It even started raining at one point last night. I didn't see any coverage in the UK press yesterday. I put it down to the fact that most of the country was cloudy. Curse the British summer weather.
The pictures on your blog are really great Ian. You all must have some late nights over the last few days.
Posted by Stuart on Thursday 25th Aug 2005 (15:04 UTC)
Fiddling around with my scope last night and I saw them. Nothing like down Ian's way but they were there.
Posted by Tom on Thursday 25th Aug 2005 (19:30 UTC)
send me email aurora alerts when its over a 6kp and wll be friends forever!!
Posted by MikeAcrossAmerica on Saturday 31st Dec 2005 (14:19 UTC)