A strong geomagnetic storm is in progress -- Look for aurora

Ref: http://spaceweather.com/

MAGNETIC STORM: A strong geomagnetic storm is in progress. It began at
approximately 0800 UT on Nov. 20th when a coronal mass ejection swept
past Earth. Auroras have been sighted as far south as Alabama and
Arizona in the United States and Greece in Europe.

See: http://spaceweather.com/

Monitor
http://www.edu-observatory.org/eo/aurora.html

Sam Wormley wrote:
Ref: http://spaceweather.com/

MAGNETIC STORM: A strong geomagnetic storm is in progress. It began at
approximately 0800 UT on Nov. 20th when a coronal mass ejection swept
past Earth. Auroras have been sighted as far south as Alabama and
Arizona in the United States and Greece in Europe.

See: http://spaceweather.com/

Monitor
http://www.edu-observatory.org/eo/aurora.html

I can not see anything from my location in town but it looks as
though the Rosemary Hill ConCam is picking up aurora to the north at
lat 30N, lon 82.5E

http://concam.net/rh/
--
John Oliver
Associate Professor
Associate Chair/Undergraduate Coordinator
Department of Astronomy
University of Florida
Project AST@RHO http://astrho.astro.ufl.edu
see the night sky at http://concam.net/rh/

Sam Wormley wrote:

Ref: http://spaceweather.com/

MAGNETIC STORM: A strong geomagnetic storm is in progress. It began at
approximately 0800 UT on Nov. 20th when a coronal mass ejection swept
past Earth. Auroras have been sighted as far south as Alabama and
Arizona in the United States and Greece in Europe.

See: http://spaceweather.com/

Monitor
http://www.edu-observatory.org/eo/aurora.html


Sure is. We had a monster aurora about 3:50 am last night that spiked
at about 4:20 am. Bright greens, reds, towering shafts of light to
nearly 45 deg. off the northern horizon.

Quite a show...
---
Mike
http://www.concentric.net/~richmann/

"Mike Richmann" wrote in message

Sure is. We had a monster aurora about 3:50 am last night that spiked
at about 4:20 am. Bright greens, reds, towering shafts of light to
nearly 45 deg. off the northern horizon.

Quite a show...

Mike,

We got about 2" of rain last night.

Quite a shower...

Drat!

Actually, it has cleared off here (upstate NY). There might be a gentle
glow low in the N to NW, but that's it. Drat, again.

Clear skies, Alan

I have placed a short movie of the start of the night ... aurora is
clearly visible tonight (compare with last night) in NNE.

http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~oliver/ConCamRH/aurora.htm

Click on image for movie

John Oliver wrote:

Sam Wormley wrote:

Ref: http://spaceweather.com/

MAGNETIC STORM: A strong geomagnetic storm is in progress. It began at
approximately 0800 UT on Nov. 20th when a coronal mass ejection swept
past Earth. Auroras have been sighted as far south as Alabama and
Arizona in the United States and Greece in Europe.

See: http://spaceweather.com/

Monitor http://www.edu-observatory.org/eo/aurora.html


I can not see anything from my location in town but it looks as though
the Rosemary Hill ConCam is picking up aurora to the north at lat 30N,
lon 82.5E

http://concam.net/rh/

--
John Oliver
Associate Professor
Associate Chair/Undergraduate Coordinator
Department of Astronomy
University of Florida
Project AST@RHO http://astrho.astro.ufl.edu
see the night sky at http://concam.net/rh/

Alan French wrote:

"Mike Richmann" wrote in message

Sure is. We had a monster aurora about 3:50 am last night that spiked
at about 4:20 am. Bright greens, reds, towering shafts of light to
nearly 45 deg. off the northern horizon.

Quite a show...

Mike,

We got about 2" of rain last night.

Quite a shower...

Drat!

Actually, it has cleared off here (upstate NY). There might be a gentle
glow low in the N to NW, but that's it. Drat, again.

Clear skies, Alan


If it's any consolation, we got completely boned that way on the big
Leonid shower max a few years back... 8^
---
http://www.concentric.net

Alan French wrote:

"Mike Richmann" wrote in message

Sure is. We had a monster aurora about 3:50 am last night that spiked
at about 4:20 am. Bright greens, reds, towering shafts of light to
nearly 45 deg. off the northern horizon.

Quite a show...

Mike,

We got about 2" of rain last night.

Quite a shower...

Drat!

Actually, it has cleared off here (upstate NY). There might be a gentle
glow low in the N to NW, but that's it. Drat, again.

Clear skies, Alan


If it's any consolation, we got completely boned that way on the big
Leonid shower max a few years back... 8^
---
http://www.concentric.net/~richmann/