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Aurora Visible In Mid And Low Latitudes

Posted by timothy on from the geographic-limitations dept.

vortmax(OU) writes: "According to Solar Terrestrial Dispatch, an Auroral Activity Warning has been issued for the middle and lower latitudes due to the recent huge solar flare and coronal mass ejection which hit the Earth today. Best chances to see the aurorae are after midnight local time tonight and tomorrow."

8 comments

  1. Now this will be cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    We should tell the Taliban that we'll make the sky stop burning if they turn over Osama bin Laden.

    Too bad we don't have a solar eclipse to put an exclamation point on our black magic.

  2. Online Aurora Monitor by Caractacus+Potts · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Solar Terrestrial Dispatch site mentioned above has a downloadable program that automatically pulls down recent satellite images, radar measurements, and live reports from observers.

    1. Re:Online Aurora Monitor by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 2

      It runs under only one operating system, right?

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  3. URLs for Aurora monitoring by Caractacus+Potts · · Score: 2, Informative

    My apologies for not mentioning that the utility was Windoze only.

    Here are the URLs for some useful aurora data.

    NOAA POES satellite
    http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/pmapN.html

    GOES8 Proton Flux
    http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/pro_3d.html

    Space Weather Now
    http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/

    For images of recent auroras, go to Space Weather
    http://www.spaceweather.com

  4. horhh! by sporktoast · · Score: 1

    auroral activity *may* be observed approximately north of a line from...
    central/southern california to arizona to new mexico to texas to louisiana to mississippi to alabama to georgia and possibly northern regions of florida to south carolina.
    Aurora Borealis, shinin down on Dallas! Can you picture that?
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  5. So Did Anyone See An Aurora? by jlttb · · Score: 1

    I didn't from my clear-but-light-polluted skies. I did see an amazing display 11 years ago in upstate New York, at the last solar max. Hate to have to wait another 11! (maybe take a quick trip to Labrador!)

  6. Geez .. by kd5biv · · Score: 1

    How come I always hear about auroral activity a couple of days after it peaks? ;-) I mean, some guy in *Tyler* saw this one .. may not have gotten as far south as Austin, but it would have been nice to check one more item off my life's to-do list ..

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