AURORA WATCH: The solar wind is stirring up geomagnetic storms aroundthe Arctic Circle

Space Weather News for Oct. 11, 2010
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AURORA WATCH: The solar wind is stirring up geomagnetic storms around
the Arctic Circle. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for
auroras after local nightfall on Oct. 11-12th. Tip: the hours around
midnight usually produce the brightest displays.

ASTEROID FLYBY: Newly-discovered asteroid 2010 TD54 will fly by Earth on
Tuesday, Oct. 12th, about 46,000 km above the planet's surface. At
closest approach, the 7-meter space rock will shine like a 14th
magnitude star as it races through the constellations Pisces and
Aquarius. There is no danger of a collision. Visit
http://spaceweather.com for ephemerides and more information.

SPACE WEATHER ALERTS: With the arrival of northern autumn, aurora
season is underway. Would you like a call when geomagnetic storms erupt
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Sam Wormley wrote:

Space Weather News for Oct. 11, 2010
http://spaceweather.com

AURORA WATCH: The solar wind is stirring up geomagnetic storms around
the Arctic Circle. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for
auroras after local nightfall on Oct. 11-12th. Tip: the hours around
midnight usually produce the brightest displays.


Bright display in Northern sky 30 km outside Stockholm at 21:00 local
time. No particular structure right now - more like appoaching cirrus -
which it's not!

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On Oct 11, 9:07*pm, (Anders Eklöf) wrote:

Bright display in Northern sky 30 km outside Stockholm at 21:00 local
time. No particular structure right now - more like approaching cirrus -
which it's not!

Nothing visible at 55N @ 9.15 CET. The Milky Way is so bright it looks
as if it has been badly painted with a 6" whitewash brush. Then I
stepped out of Jupiter's shadow, cast by the house, and my night
vision was gone in an instant.

On Oct 11, 9:07*pm, (Anders Eklöf) wrote:
Sam Wormley wrote:
Space Weather News for Oct. 11, 2010
http://spaceweather.com

AURORA WATCH: The solar wind is stirring up geomagnetic storms around
the Arctic Circle. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for
auroras after local nightfall on Oct. 11-12th. *Tip: the hours around
midnight usually produce the brightest displays.

Bright display in Northern sky 30 km outside Stockholm at 21:00 local
time. No particular structure right now - more like appoaching cirrus -
which it's not!


Nothing visible at 55N @ 9.15 CET. The Milky Way is so bright it looks
as if it has been badly painted with a 6" whitewash brush. Then I
stepped out of Jupiter's shadow, cast by the house, and my night
vision was gone in an instant.

An update: The (much later) show was short lived but was nicely
captured in a video by Jesper Grønnes:

http://www.fotojesper.dk/Aurora_in_Denmark_oct2010.mov

On Oct 12, 2:00*pm, "Androcles"
wrote:

Perhaps you should collect a bucketful of dead muons if it
is incoming.

2.2 microseconds is rather shorter than my attention span while
carrying a bucket out to the midden.