#spaceweatherlive

[davinciae]

just saw aurora borealis in person i might actually just cry

[russell-crowe]

edit: it is not looking as good as i hoped it would rn but there is still a slight chance esp for those further north! :)

anyway tonight there's another round of aurora chances coming up! it's likely not going to top friday night, but if the timing is right it looks like it is going to be better than last night's display - which was still photographed as far south as austria, but not as dramatic as the previous night.

you can use spaceweatherlive to check parameters & a rough estimate of where the northern lights are. the graphs can be confusing but they are rather useful, as there is a satellite between the sun and the earth that will show what will impact in 30-60 minutes (depends on the speed of the particles) - so if you see a spike or change in the graphs, they could impact the display in a similar time frame, which makes it easier to decide if it is worth to stay outside for a bit longer. :)

and you can use this website to find out when it's true night and dark enough for the best display in your location - night and astronomical twilight are both sufficiently dark enough for visibility.

oh and this is a decent website for up to date cloud coverage!

[thethingything]

I didn't check the spaceweatherlive forums for ages and I'd love to know what the fuck happened for them to finally ban discussions of unproven theories given that there was previously a whole thread dedicated to discussing them

[johnhooperphotographer]

Three big sunspot regions on today’s sun 🌞 as seen from out sunny studio. . . . . . #brightislandstudio #minster #sunspot #astronomy #solar #space #star #sun #light #heat @baaderplanetarium #solarphotography @sky_watcher_official #sky #solarfilm #instasun #spaceweatherlive (at Sheriffs Court) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPYlhG6FZcx/?utm_medium=tumblr

[joelschat]

I have been fortunate enough to see the northern lights quite a few times in my lifetime, usually further up north or from an airplane. However over the past 6 years I have been able to see them a few times now in Vancouver. So I wanted to share the tools that I use to be able to go and see them when they are out. Here are a few links to the tools that I talked about in the video: Aurora App - https://ift.tt/MqQ1vDw https://ift.tt/KJFPWq6 SpaceWeatherLive App - https://ift.tt/noBcW5O Aurora Watch Email Alerts - https://ift.tt/NmMEnX7 Soft Serve News - https://ift.tt/5N78DUX Thank you so much to Liron for letting me use some of his stunning timelapses of the Aurora over Lions Gate Bridge and in Vancouver! You can see more of his work here: https://ift.tt/Dh71e3S https://ift.tt/eUDlWMH The Satellite Images are courtesy of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center: https://ift.tt/WV52KTD Follow me on Instagram! - https://ift.tt/b5keVij by Joel Schat

[ascensiondiaries]

Latest Update…? Currently in the SpaceWeatherLive App feed… Why do I get guided to look at these times? 😆#spaceweather #woman https://www.instagram.com/p/CaDpRBWvyz0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[sciencespies]

Stunning Visuals Show Solar Storm Auroras Taking Over The Night Sky

https://sciencespies.com/space/stunning-visuals-show-solar-storm-auroras-taking-over-the-night-sky/

Stunning Visuals Show Solar Storm Auroras Taking Over The Night Sky

Vivid green and purple auroras swirled and danced across the entire night sky in Sweden recently.

The night-time light show was captured by an all-sky camera in Kiruna, Sweden, which is part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Space Weather Service Network.

This camera is pointed straight up, and is fitted with a fish-eye lens to be able to capture the sky from horizon to horizon. The Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, were visible due to the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME) into our planet’s magnetosphere on October 12.

A solar storm on the Sun ejected a ejected a violent mass of fast-moving plasma into space on October 9, 2021. A few days later, auroras were seen around the world in the northern hemisphere.

“What I love about this video is the chance to see this beautiful, purple aurora, more clearly visible during intense geomagnetic storms,” said Hannah Laurens, a Space Weather Applications Scientist based at European Space Operations Center (ESOC).

“The movement of this swirly structure in space and time is often referred to as auroral dynamics.”

Laurens explained how the aurora is a manifestation of complex drivers operating in the distant magnetosphere which makes it a useful, and beautiful, tool with which to monitor space weather conditions.

But being able to study the auroral dynamics is especially important when studying the relationship between the ionosphere and magnetosphere, which are linked by lines of magnetic field.

Various spacecraft keep an eye on the Sun: the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter are just some of the tools scientists use to learn more about our star and how it affects our planet.

Observatories on the ground, like all-sky cameras, are also vital to understanding the complex, and sometimes hazardous interactions between the Sun and Earth.

A preliminary look at the eruption from the M1.6 solar flare with the help of SDO and STCE/SIDC.

We see a gorgeous eruption which very likely launched an earth-directed CME into space. More info will come later when coronagraph imagery becomes available. pic.twitter.com/1aCUAQGILK

— SpaceWeatherLive (@_SpaceWeather_) October 9, 2021

All-sky cameras have operated in Kiruna since the International Geophysical Year 1957-1958, and a digital all-sky camera has been in operation since 2001. The Kiruna Atmospheric and Geophysical Observatory (KAGO) is part of the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF).

While most of the solar wind is blocked by Earth’s protective magnetosphere, some charged particles become trapped in Earth’s magnetic field and flow down to the geomagnetic poles, colliding with the upper atmosphere to create the beautiful auroras.

This article was originally published by Universe Today. Read the original article.

#Space

[eksopolitiikka]

Massiivinen mag4.4 koronanpurkaus 29.11. havaittiin satelliitilla

Massiivinen mag4.4 koronanpurkaus 29.11. havaittiin satelliitilla

Marraskuun 29. päivänä 2020 Maata kiertävät satelliitit havaitsivat suurimman auringonpurkauksen kolmeen vuoteen.

NASAn Solar Dynamics Observatory kuvasi äärimmäisen magnitudiltaan 4.4 purkauksen, joka lähti liikkeelle Auringon itäiseltä puolelta.

kuva: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.

NOAA:n GOES-röntgensädemittari vahvisti purkauksen:

NOAA:n GOES X-Ray Flux (1 minuutin data, 3 päivää) [swpc.noaa.gov].

Röntgensäteet ja UV-säteily purkauksesta ionisoivat Maapallon ilmakehän reunaa, mikä sai aikaan lyhytaaltoradiopimennyksen Etelä-Atlantin ylle. Lyhytaaltoradion operaattorit ja merenkulkijat alueella huomasivat omituisia purkausvaikutuksia taajuuksilla alle 20 MHz, ja jotkut lähetykset alle 10 MHz:n taajuuksilla olivat kokonaan pimeinä.

Tämä purkaus oli jopa suurempi kuin miltä vaikuttaa, kirjoittaa tri. Tony Phillips spaceweather.comista. Purkauspaikka sijaitsi Auringon kaakkoisalueella. Tämän seurauksena Aurinko tuli itse purkauksen väliin osittain. Se olisi voinut olla jopa X-luokan tapahtuma.

Purkaus sai aikaan koronanpurkauksen (coronal mass ejection, CME) avaruuteen, mikä näkyy allaolevassa SOHOn (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) koronagraafissa:

LASCO C3 [swpc.noaa.gov].

Aluksi vaikutti siltä kuin CME menisi kokonaan Maapallosta ohi.

Another look at the coronal mass ejection launched by the M4.4 flare earlier today. These images come from SOHO which is a space craft that looks at CMEs from earth’s point of view. A fast and impressive CME can be seen but as mentioned earlier, it is not directed towards Earth. pic.twitter.com/mVvOGebuon

— SpaceWeatherLive (@_SpaceWeather_) November 29, 2020

Kuitenkin NOAAn analyytikot uskovat nyt, että pilvien reunoilla voi näkyä “jälkihehkua” Maan magneettikentässä joulukuun 1.-2. päivinä (ehkä jopa kolmantena), mikä näkyy visualisoituna allaolevassa kuvassa, jossa Maapallo on pieni keltainen piste suoraan oikealla suuremmasta keskellä olevasta Auringosta:

NOAA’s WSA-ENLIL -ennuste [swpc.noaa.gov].

Impakti tulee saamaan maksimissaan aikaan pienen G1-luokan geomagneettisen myrskyn, josta aiheutuu revontulia pohjoisen pallonpuoliskon maihin kuten Kanada, Islanti (myös Suomi!). Kuitenkin asia voisi olla todella erilailla mikäli CME olisi kulkeutunut Maapalloa kohti. Silloin olisimme voineet odottaa voimakasta geomagneettista myrskyä ja mahdollisesti sähköverkkojen paikallisia pimenemisiä.

Tämä tuleva CME on mahdollisesti varoituslaukaus siitä mitä odotetaan tapahtuvaksi. Kaikki häiriöt joulukuun alussa ovat alkusoittoa kahdennenkymmenennenviidennen aurinkosyklin jatkaessa kiihtymistään. Seuraavalla kerralla emme ole välttämättä niin onnekkaita. Ja “seuraava kerta” voi olla vain päivien päässä: salainen auringonpilkku, joka tuotti tämän suuren purkauksen liikkuu kohti kasvotusten Maapalloa seuraavan 24 tunnin aikana.

Katse taivaalle…

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[kittens-anger-and-jam]

A reblog from an old post of mine from one of my side blogs. I'd like to make a correction and say that you can come to Sweden and watch the Northern lights from October up until March.

Now that I moved north to Umeå (and surroundings) and lived there for the past 5 years I know from experience that the further North and further west (inland) you go, the greater chances you have to spot an aurora. The best light shows I've seen in Umeå have been during October - November, though that has a lot to do with Umeå having it's own micro climate as winter gets further along. By mid December we get quite a good cloud cover during the night, even though the skies are clear during the day.

The best you can do in order to spot the Northern lights is go North and inland (Jukkasjärvi, Kiruna, Jokkmokk, Abisko, Åre, Sarek National Park, etc) and check websites monitoring solar flares such as Spaceweatherlive, or join a Facebook group putting out alerts for whichever city/place you are currently in.

We get to see auroras in Umeå every winter, but I do live there and I can't say I see them as often as one would think. Other cities where they can be observed fairly often are Skellefteå, Piteå, Luleå, and Haparanda (on the border with Finland). All of these are coastal cities, so sometimes the skies are clear in the afternoon and then the winds turn, bringing moisture from the Baltic sea and blotting out the stars (and any chances of seeing anything).

The best spots around Umeå are Tavelsjö (a lake 30 min away from the city center by car), Nydalasjön (withing city limits but with some light pollution from the nearby settements), Vindeln and its river Vindelälven, and maybe by the sea if you happen to have a car.

In a little town called Jukkasjärvi in Northern Sweden - near the Ice Hotel and the city of Kiruna - you can learn how to drive a dog sled (not for the feint of heart) or go reindeer sledding (much more manageable for first timers).

You can also take trips into the forest in the dead of night to see the stars (you’ll learn how to care for and ride an icelandic horse), and if you’re lucky, see the Northern lights. TIP: the northern light “season” starts in February and ends in March. You can even learn how to drill a hole in the Torneälv and fish!

Noteworthy is that you won’t see the sun at all if you visit during December-January. The sky will get brighter and there will be some light for a couple of hours, but the rest of the day it will be pitch black. Make sure to have some board games and good company for the long nights ahead! I recommend the trip though, it’s absolutely worth it.

It’s a strange feeling, when you are alone in a sea of white and the only sounds are your heartbeat, your breath, and the steady rhythm of a reindeer’s footsteps.

[davinciae]

omg spaceweatherlive is actually struggling to load

[thethingything]

okay so SpaceWeatherLive is saying there's a chance the aurora could be visible as far south as New York, however a couple of hours ago it said it might be visible in Edinburgh and then it actually ended up being seen as far south as Italy so like, if you're anywhere in the US and Canada I'd probably go out and check after it gets dark

[spacebyeli]

(vía 🌞 SpaceWeatherLive, 03.Oct.2020)

[thethingything]

a good source for up to date information on what's going on is SpaceWeatherLive. the main things to pay attention to are the KP index (4+ is storm conditions), the auroral oval map, and whether the Bz of the solar wind is north or south (south is better for seeing aurora).

that being said, sometimes you can see the aurora outside of the oval, especially during strong storms, so don't be too dissuaded if the oval doesn't reach your location.

also, the aurora sometimes just kind of looks like a faint hazy patch and you might need to take a photo and look at that to tell whether it's a patch of cloud or the aurora since the colours tend to show up better in photos.

once again, it's definitely still too early to tell what'll happen, but hopefully we'll get to see something exciting!

Considering people were upset about missing the big northern lights event in May, here's a very early heads-up to pay attention on the night of October 4-5.

Last night, a major X7.1 solar flare peaked, which is the second strongest solar flare in the current solar cycle (the cycle our sun goes through roughly every 11 years). This has the potential to be another widespread aurora event, where many people will get to witness this magical phenomenon. However, since we're talking about space weather, there are always many variables that can either enhance or diminish the chances of it being visible.

Again, it’s too early to tell whether this will be nearly as spectacular as the event in May. But now that you're aware something could happen, here are some things you can do to be better prepared this time:

Follow local social media groups. There's a big Facebook group called "Northern Lights Alert," but there are also many local groups for specific countries and regions (e.g., Nordlysvarsel i Danmark, Stavanger Aurora Chasers, Copenhagen Aurora Hunters, Noorderlicht Nederland, etc.). Being part of these groups can help ensure you don't miss anything exciting when it's on the way!

Start making some loose plans. Is there a place nearby with a clear view to the north that you can reach by car or public transport? Is there light pollution where you're planning to go? Do you have warm clothes, a charged camera, a tripod, or a blanket in your car?

It’s possible that nothing spectacular will happen, but all of this will still be useful as the sun enters its most active period during the coming winter. So, be prepared, and you might get to see something wonderful! 💚

[johnhooperphotographer]

Daytime Astronomy. I took a picture of the Sun!! And you can see some activity in the bottom right! I thought it might be dirt but looking at #spaceweatherlive it turned out to be a prominence. This is the first time we tried this and look forward to trying again when there is a little more action. I added the orange to help with the contrast🤔 . . . . . #sunphoto #thesun @_SpaceWeather_ #sun #solar #skywatcher #baaderplanetarium @baaderplanetarium #leefilters @leefilters @nikoneurope #nikond850 #astronomy #telescope (at Margate, Kent) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdzNJylAUi/?igshid=4k3jrpoph374

[beyondthetemples-ooc]

AURORAS VISIBLE THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS! +Resources.

Solar flares have been happening quite strongly lately, which of course means more visible aurora borealis.

And I’m not just talking about the poles! I mean places they’re not normally visible, like southern Canada, and the Northern US, and the United Kingdom, a whole band of lower latitude skies across the globe than auroras usually show.

NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/active-region-on-sun-continues-to-emits-solar-flares

NOAA.gov: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g3-watch-7-through-9-september-2017-due-cme-effects

Of course, cloudy, smoky, or otherwise inclement sky conditions might mean they aren’t visible, but here’s a page with a half-hour forecast. Viewed from the North and South poles of the planet: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast

And you absolutely DO NOT NEED to pay for aurora alerts! SpaceWeatherLive provides free Email and Browser Alert subscription service.

https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/aurora-alerts

[ascensiondiaries]

Another M1. Impact of these in the higher spectrum, like X-rays are fast, the info about what caused them and more behind it comes later. #spaceweather download spaceweatherlive app to keep up. 🏄 if you need another nap today don’t be surprised. Also the Moon will be full tomorrow. Breathe 🧘‍♂️ and demand better protection! https://www.instagram.com/p/CaAgMYtPdnC/?utm_medium=tumblr