G4 Solar Storm coming.

[repoman0]

A chance of northern lights visible here (New England) tonight after midnight is predicted.

Skies are clear in Boston, I’ll be taking a look!

 

[IronWing]

As far south as Alabama and Northern California. I'm confused because that doesn't really match up. Northern Alabama seems to match up to Southern California. What am I missing?

I don't know, maybe rotation of the earth relative to the sun when the storm hits? The magnetic north pole is currently closer to California than Alabama so that can't be it.

 

[APU_Fusion]

I don't know, maybe rotation of the earth relative to the sun when the storm hits? The magnetic north pole is currently closer to California than Alabama so that can't be it.

NOAA Aurora Tracker

 

[Pipeline 1010]

NOAA Aurora Tracker

I had not considered that it wouldn't be evenly distributed by latitude. I shall file a complaint with the proper authorities.

 

[Ken g6]

As far south as Alabama and Northern California. I'm confused because that doesn't really match up. Northern Alabama seems to match up to Southern California. What am I missing?

It's all about distance from the geomagnetic north pole. Which is somewhere near here:

But it moves.

 

[Roger Wilco]

G5!

 

[IronWing]

It's all about distance from the geomagnetic north pole. Which is somewhere near here:

But it moves.

That's still far closer to California than Alabama.

 

[Indus]

Manchester..

 

[skyking]

I'll not sleep too much tonight. I'll probably run a timer on my phone and nap in the recliner.

 

[DaaQ]

Manchester..

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UK?
Edit, first Manchester that came to mind.

 

[zinfamous]

So, I did ask our resident astrophysicist what are the chances of gaining super powers if we can get one of those billionaire rockets and fly into LEO or whatever, and get blasted by this coronal mass erection.

...he said the super power of "multiorganic cancer"

It's worth a shot?

 

[DaaQ]

So, I did ask our resident astrophysicist what are the chances of gaining super powers if we can get one of those billionaire rockets and fly into LEO or whatever, and get blasted by this coronal mass erection.

...he said the super power of "multiorganic cancer"

It's worth a shot?

Will be fun to see the "hardiness" of Starlink connections.

EDIT: /s

play on words of quoted post.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Will be fun to see the "hardiness" of Starlink connections.

Ironically in very LEO they should be better protected than a lot of the geosync sats. There's a reason we're getting notifications than GPS might be out for 'days'. The void is a cold, uncaring place.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

Manchester..

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Nice. Does it look like that naked eye or is that with phone enhancements?

 

[DaaQ]

Nice. Does it look like that naked eye or is that with phone enhancements?

I have a Motorola where you flick the wrist to gesture open camera and got this. But saw with the naked eye first.
Also saw green in the other direction.
EDIT:
I'm in KY btw

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I have a Motorola where you flick the wrist to gesture open camera and got this. But saw with the naked eye first.
Also saw green in the other direction.

I'm in KY btw


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Where are you at?

 

[DaaQ]

Where are you at?

KY see edit, Southern central KY about 25 miles from TN border.

 

[5to1baby1in5]

GPS Status app shows all satellites are still working.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

KY see edit, Southern central KY about 25 miles from TN border.

Nice, that's the furthest south I have seen someone talk about seeing them so far and that's right outside the edge of the current NOAA 30 minute forecast. Though I'm around 29.6 latitude so super unlikely I'll get a chance, but still watching the 30 minute NOAA forecasts anyways and will take a trip to somewhere with a dark north sky about 15 miles away if I start seeing that forecast drop into Oklahoma (as aurora that are overhead up to 620 miles away can be visible)

 

[DaaQ]

Nice, that's the furthest south I have seen someone talk about seeing them so far and that's right outside the edge of the current NOAA 30 minute forecast. Though I'm around 29.6 latitude so super unlikely I'll get a chance, but still watching the 30 minute NOAA forecasts anyways and will take a trip to somewhere with a dark north sky about 15 miles away if I start seeing that forecast drop into Oklahoma (as aurora that are overhead up to 620 miles away can be visible)

It was actually before what is supposed to be our peak, which IIRC is 11pm -2am, central time.

I just went out back to get away from that street light, and its purple over where my house would be but there are trees, and greenish where the sun rises, and then I looked straight up and could see faint magenta ish best I can describe is like God Rays, coming from the darkest part of the sky.

EDIT:
Wish I had gotten a picture of what looked like it may have been the ISS or a satellite passing by before I took that first picture.

 

[Muse]

As far south as Alabama and Northern California. I'm confused because that doesn't really match up. Northern Alabama seems to match up to Southern California. What am I missing?

I was thinking the same thing, i.e. Alabama is considerably south of Northern California. I'm in the Bay Area. A fair chance it can be seen, but they stress to get away from the metropolitan areas. Too much bother for me, drive 50+ miles in the middle of the night in hopes of seeing shimmering green in the sky. When I heard that I chuckled: I'm total green blind, it so happens.

 

[Muse]

G5!

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"Aurora may be seen as low as Florida to southern Texas and southern California"

Edit: I may get up for this one.

Edit2: Forecast is partly cloudy.

 

[DaaQ]

I was thinking the same thing, i.e. Alabama is considerably south of Northern California. I'm in the Bay Area. A fair chance it can be seen, but they stress to get away from the metropolitan areas. Too much bother for me, drive 50+ miles in the middle of the night in hopes of seeing shimmering green in the sky. When I heard that I chuckled: I'm total green blind, it so happens.

It's the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation, imo.

 

[5to1baby1in5]

I was thinking the same thing, i.e. Alabama is considerably south of Northern California. I'm in the Bay Area. A fair chance it can be seen, but they stress to get away from the metropolitan areas. Too much bother for me, drive 50+ miles in the middle of the night in hopes of seeing shimmering green in the sky. When I heard that I chuckled: I'm total green blind, it so happens.

I think its because geo-magnetic north is by Greenland.

 

[Muse]

I'll not sleep too much tonight. I'll probably run a timer on my phone and nap in the recliner.

It might be pretty cool, I don't know. By faaaaaar the greatest celestial, cosmic observation experience I have ever had, I was laying on my roof here in Berkeley, CA, a meteor shower maybe 3 decades ago. Meteors of every brightness, color, speed, direction, coming from seemingly any part of the sky. It took my breath away. I was spotting maybe 2-3 per minute, IIRC, but I wasn't keeping score.