Anyone know of sources/sites that track the magnitude of geomagnetic storms as a time series? (interested to gauge the magnitude of recent ones relative to those of the past, similarly to how we may do so for earthquakes)
Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
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#262Any chance it'll be there tomorrow too? Seems beautiful in the French alps, wonder if it's worth trying to go there tomorrow https://www.skaping.com/chamrousse/la-croix?archives=MTcxNTM...
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#263I feel I need to report my experience from Denmark, Jutland. It started with white broad streaks, which most of all looked like fog, but then perhaps after 10 minutes or so, we saw colors of red, purple and green begin to emerge from the these streaks. Most astoundingly it all seemed to emanate from a fluctuating point in the middle of the sky. If you looked closely at this point you could see it fall into itself, mo…
Someone shared something similar on Twitter: https://x.com/packyM/status/1789113052723314918
Can somebody link not to Twitter, please?
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#264Here are some phone pics from my home village in Germany: https://www.nowhereinparticular.xyz/polarlichter.html This was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. My brother, who is a hobby astronomer, called me and sent me outside. Initially, I saw only a faint red glow in the northeast of the sky, but after a few minutes, my eyes adapted and I could see how it slowly moved and changed its form over time. I stayed outside fo…
Thank you for not linking to Twitter.
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#265Super visible with the naked eye an hour and a half east of Denver. At some points the whole sky turned colors from green/pink/blue.
Some photos if anyone is interested
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#266I feel I need to report my experience from Denmark, Jutland. It started with white broad streaks, which most of all looked like fog, but then perhaps after 10 minutes or so, we saw colors of red, purple and green begin to emerge from the these streaks. Most astoundingly it all seemed to emanate from a fluctuating point in the middle of the sky. If you looked closely at this point you could see it fall into itself, mo…
I was out flying a camera drone on the river Dee between Liverpool and North Wales filming the sunset, when I started getting magnetic interference warnings. At the same time, I started to see flashes in the sky. Then my vision was filled with sparkling lights. A few minutes later I got an aurora warning from my brother and the aurora app. KP 8-9
As the sun went down I was waking through a woodland. I thought the dark would help my eyes to see the aurora, and I could point my camera away from the light pollution of Liverpool and maybe catch some colour with a long exposure.
Suddenly, I realised the colour of the aurora was coming through the trees, and getting brighter. I wasn't expecting it to be visible to naked eye like this. In these latitudes the advice is to set your camera to highest iso and slowest shutter speed and hope to catch a little colour. I wasn't expecting this! So I packed up quick and ran through the woods and into open fields. There, directly above me was this intense white light, with white arms forming a sort-of cross. The longest arm formed an arch over the whole sky, and where they reached the earth, on either side they became colourful, like a twinkling rainbow stretching out to space.
I didn't have the equipment or the wits to get a good photo. I just threw myself on the ground and lay on my back watching.
Wildest thing I ever saw. Absolutely awesome.
When I regain my composure, I will upload some photos somewhere (where, though?) and edit this comment.
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#267How did this compare to the Carrington event?
You could read a newspaper from the light in the middle of the night during the Carrington event, so not comparable at all.
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#269This aurora was really powerful! I could see it with a naked eye from a town in central Poland, despite cloudy weather and light pollution. Feels great to finally see it in person
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#270How did this compare to the Carrington event?
That’s what I want to know but everybody just talks about how pretty it is. I want to know if it was dangerous to our electronics, and if not then how close it came to being dangerous, you know, small things like that.