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Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
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Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
#22I live in rural very northern England. It’s incredible, clear with the naked eye. iPhone 14 camera with 3s exposure is out of this world (pun intended, but misleading)
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#23The NOAA forecast suggests it'll be nearly as powerful as the March 13th storm in '89 that took out the Quebec grid: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-exper...
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#24Barely visible in Northern Italy—no pink worth calling home about—but the sky is sensibly lighter than it usually is.
The one pointed 'nordest' from Monte Grappa seems to show some pink: https://www.meteograppa.it/lewebcam.php Tried looking for some webcams in the Cortina area but they seem to have a lot of clouds. Some of which appear to have a pink hue.
Light pollution does not help, probably.
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#25Is there a map of the world showing where it should be visible? I wonder how far I would need to drive.
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#26Wow, I just went outside (South West of France) to plug the car for charging before going to bed.
I noticed unusual, faint light patterns in the night sky, like long spikes coming from the North. It was not the Milky Way, we can see every clear night. Color was mostly gray slightly pink. Wondered what was that ... My first aurora !!!
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#27Most of Europe == Not covered by light polution. (and specific areas) (it's orange outside and it's sodium vapor related) edit: kind of whish I was at my parent's place. It's a lot less poluted but no go here; nw europe densly populated, we also have the artificial sunrise here 24/7 by means of greenhouses.
Classic aurora move, I can almost hear the charged particles now... "Und doch habe ich allein, allein auf mich gestellt, ganz Europa erobert!" Sure you did charged particles, sure you did, but welcome to Europe's secret weapon: Light pollution!
> Sure you did charged particles
Well technically ... sodium vapor lamps are charged particles. But yea you are correct we're screwed.
Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
#28Is there a map of the world showing where it should be visible? I wonder how far I would need to drive.
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#29Where do people get their forecasts? I often use this one, but it's not very usable outside Norway. Great if you click into each forecast (click the image) and get more details. Like how it actually covers the sky in that location. So that I can use that to plan (doesn't matter if it's strong if it's in a direction I can't see it) https://site.uit.no/spaceweather/data-and-products/aurora/os...
Used to use a NOAA page, but they changed it a while ago and don't find it as useful anymore. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-exper...
Some weather services also have a kp index, but I often feel those can't be trusted, and don't tell the whole story. And aurora is quite hit or miss, so need more updated data.
I have an app on my phone (AuroraNotifier) that chimes when there's hope. And then I use these others to plan a bit better. But some more interactive map akin to the uit.no one but where I can place myself around would be nice.
Edit: someone posted this below, looks nice, have some other kinds of data https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html
Edit2: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/an...
Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
#30It’s currently at Kp8.
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html