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Which app have you been using for the aurora warning?
Not who you were replying to, but I've had the AuroraWatch UK app installed for a while now (and yes, we enjoyed last night's display, after being alerted by the app).
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It really depends how far south you are and how strong the solar storm will get. You should look for some dark place close up. But it might be, that it is only visible on the northern parts of the US. Even seeing it there is quite uncommon.
This one was visible all the way to at lest San Antonio, Texas and the Florida Keys. I won't be surprised to see photos from Mexico. Nice show.
I 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 dar…
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This one was visible all the way to at lest San Antonio, Texas and the Florida Keys. I won't be surprised to see photos from Mexico. Nice show.
I couldn’t see anything over here even way out of town.
To really see it you need a short timed exposure with aperture opened up on the camera - so small F-stop or high-speed film setting for low light, >800 speed.
I am right outside a huge metro area and directly in front of me there is a large warehouse facility with floodlights on all night long. In spite of this I could see the slight color change in the clouds (it was very cloudy here until nearly the end of the show) since the normal light color tends towards blues and oranges depending on how far off of north you are looking.
I saw red curtains here back in 2003 during a storm that also was visible in Mexico. I knew where I needed to be in my yard to be able to see things. That display began a little east of north and walked slowly west until it faded. With that in mind, that is how I started watching for lighting changes this time. The auroral oval moves from east to west during these events and for me here in N Texas it appears to be visible only for about 20 degrees either side of north before it fades. In general, if the oval extends to Kansas or into Oklahoma then we have a shot at seeing something down here since we can see the upper atmosphere from this distance. It's a bit like trying to photograph sprites above thunderstorms in that you need to be a long way away from the storm to be able to see the activity above it. I did take a photo behind me to the south and it shows aurora too so that is how I knew this was a powerful storm that would be visible a lot farther south than my place.
We should have more of these events over the next 2-3 years so keep your eyes open. Find Polaris at your location and monitor space weather reports to get a feel for the likelihood that you can see something there.
Good luck.
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what am I expecting to see?
These are live webcams. At the time it was sent it was probably showing the aurora
Oh, here, I figured out there's an "archive" that can be browsed through. Here's the scene at the time I posted the original comment: https://www.jungfrau.ch/webcams/top-of-europe-jungfraujoch/#...
Ah, I managed to find the direct image URL in the network requests, as well: (warning, 20428px wide) https://storage.roundshot.com/5e568a0aaea5b0.54147912/2024-0...
I saw a full aurora in Melbourne, Australia. Colours, ribbons, arcs and beams all visible to the naked eye and on camera. Normally with aurouras, you only get to see a faint greyish glow on the horizon and it only looks good on camera. Not this time.
Aurora australis are dimmer than aurora borealis.
Here in Australia I leaned pretty quickly from other local Aurora chasers not to rely on Kp, which is relevant to North America only. Instead I use the global storm strength and the Hobart magnometer readings.
