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Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
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- Kikawala 2y agoEven more live views at the main page: https://www.foto-webcam.eu/ https://www.foto-webcam.eu/
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- axblount 2y agoIs this related to the solar storm? Why is it pink?
- anamexis 2y agoYes, and pink is a typical aurora color.
- NegativeLatency 2y agohttps://www.space.com/aurora-colors-explained https://www.space.com/aurora-colors-explained Oxygen at higher altitudes has a different emission frequency apparently (I've only ever seen the faintest green pulsing aurora IRL) It's possible to tell what elements something is made of by determining the spectra coming off of it when it's excited: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spectroscopy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spectroscopy
- moralestapia 2y agoOh, boy. So beautiful! It's probably visible where I am as well but there's still some sunlight so gg. Hope it lasts for a while!
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- crdrost 2y agoNice livestream from a bloke on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTxvAQYKGPI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTxvAQYKGPI
- consp 2y agoMost of Europe == Not covered by light polution. (and specific areas) (it's orange outside and it's sodium vapor related) edit: kind of whish I was at my parent's place. It's a lot less poluted but no go here; nw europe densly populated, we also have the artificial sunrise here 24/7 by means of greenhouses.
- EA-3167 2y agoClassic aurora move, I can almost hear the charged particles now... "Und doch habe ich allein, allein auf mich gestellt, ganz Europa erobert!" Sure you did charged particles, sure you did, but welcome to Europe's secret weapon: Light pollution!
- consp 2y ago> Sure you did charged particles Well technically ... sodium vapor lamps are charged particles. But yea you are correct we're screwed.
- Starlevel004 2y agoEven in the light polluted London you can still see it, even if it's faint.
- consp 2y agoFrom the ground I cannot see it (I'm a bit north of london latitude wise so it should be better), and we have nicely combination of areas of greenhouses and petrochemical companies burning off here so it might be far worse than central london unfortunately. I'm not too high up but my view north is quite ok ... and unnatural orangeish and void of any pink.
- TomWhitwell 2y agoIt’s just about visible (much more so through an iPhone camera) in central London right now
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- _fizz_buzz_ 2y agoSaw them in the west of Germany. Phone camera made them more visible. But also clearly visible with the naked eye.
- pixelpoet 2y agoLooked outside just now around Bad Homburg in Frankfurt area, nothing :( So depressing
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoMore discussions on related NOAA posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315394 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40318356 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40318356
- docapotamus 2y agoI live in rural very northern England. It’s incredible, clear with the naked eye. iPhone 14 camera with 3s exposure is out of this world (pun intended, but misleading)
- jon_adler 2y agoSimilar for me down south too (Cambridge). My first sighting and it is superb.
- AlexAndScripts 2y agoI'm near Bristol. It's still absolutely stunning. It's not just to the north, either - it's everywhere.
- docapotamus 2y agoYep I noticed that to, it’s sort of bathing everywhere from zenith
- matsemann 2y agoYeah, it's often easy to make it look much better on camera than what it did in real life. Something to keep in mind if one feel one missed out, heh. Also, timelapses of long exposures can give a wrong impression of how it moves. But has for a long time been the only way to actually see a video of it. It's often not that slow and wavy in real life. It's more like watching an orchestra play, where suddenly someone plays a flute in the corner, and then a few moments later a trombone sounds from the other side. It's dramatic and beautiful when it's really on. But modern video cameras are now good enough to capture this in real time, so hopefully we'll see more realistic videoes.
- docapotamus 2y agoAgree. Was surprised how well the phone pulled the colour out. Can’t find my DSLR unfortunately otherwise it’d be on the tripod. Had to wake the 6 year old for him to see this, once in a life time type of thing
- mmastrac 2y agoThe NOAA forecast suggests it'll be nearly as powerful as the March 13th storm in '89 that took out the Quebec grid: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-exper...
- idontwantthis 2y agoIs there a map of the world showing where it should be visible? I wonder how far I would need to drive.
- nilsherzig 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40324332 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40324332
- idontwantthis 2y agoI can’t tell what to make of that. It looks normal northern to me but people are saying it’s going to be visible in Alabama tonight.
- doodlebugging 2y agoSaw it in N Texas between dark +15minutes and about 2:30 this morning. Really nice. I've waited since 2003 to see another from my front yard. I caught the big ones during that last solar max including the X27 flare auroras. This show came from a merging of several X-class flares in quick succession. There was an X5.7 today that may also give us a show in 2-3 days depending on whether it had an earth-directed component. spaceweather.com spaceweatherlive.com other links in related posts also have additional sites to track things like this. Good luck.
- _ph_ 2y agoWhere are you located?
- idontwantthis 2y agoSW USA
- _ph_ 2y agoIt 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.
- secondcoming 2y agoThis shows a scientific view of it: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/anim=off/overlay=aurora/orthographic=-1.93,42.46,404 https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/an...
- NegativeLatency 2y agoThis is a very cool visulization
- isatty 2y agoThat's a really cool website. Very responsive too.
- sc__ 2y agoI live in a northern Atlantic country and use it to learn about upcoming storms during storm season, days in advance of my national weather service.
- zeteo 2y agoIs it visible from Australia as well?
- davidw 2y agoDoes it shift around? It's quite absent in the western US and Canada right now: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/anim=off/overlay=aurora/orthographic=-135.49,65.26,519 https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/an... Of course, it's still a beautiful sunny warm day too where I am so it'll be 5 hours or so before it's dark enough to see it.
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- idlewords 2y agoThe auroral oval stays roughly the same but the Earth rotates under it.
- bonzini 2y agoBarely visible in Northern Italy—no pink worth calling home about—but the sky is sensibly lighter than it usually is.
- davidw 2y agoThe one pointed 'nordest' from Monte Grappa seems to show some pink: https://www.meteograppa.it/lewebcam.php https://www.meteograppa.it/lewebcam.php Tried looking for some webcams in the Cortina area but they seem to have a lot of clouds. Some of which appear to have a pink hue.
- sarusso 2y agoThis is from Trieste: https://twitter.com/_sarusso/status/1789112947165270298 https://twitter.com/_sarusso/status/1789112947165270298. Naked eye was way less bright but still well visible I would say!
- davidw 2y agoNice way to celebrate the Giro d'Italia!
- amatecha 2y agoWow! Check out the view from the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland! https://www.jungfrau.ch/en-gb/live/webcams/#webcam-jungfraujoch-top-of-europe https://www.jungfrau.ch/en-gb/live/webcams/#webcam-jungfrauj...
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- chgs 2y agoDoesn’t look like that in reality. If I take a photo on my phone here in the UK midlands I get pink and green in all directions with a 3 second exposure. However with just the naked eye it’s like super high level clouds
- amatecha 2y agoYeah, camera sensors (depending on filtering) are far more sensitive to the dim light of the aurora than our eyes. Still means you can get utterly amazing photography there already! :)
- ShakataGaNai 2y agoI was in Northern MN a couple years back when there was some decent aurora https://imgur.com/a/nBjdhZ9 https://imgur.com/a/nBjdhZ9 What the camera caught was really impressive! Even with just a couple seconds exposure on a phone. But what the human eye saw was.... effectively a portion of the sky that was unusually bright and seemed to have some sort of movement. Like you stared at it and knew something was amiss, but nothing "impressive" to look at.
- erikbye 2y agoCome to the arctic circle during polar night, then you will see impressive.
- marmakoide 2y agoWow, I just went outside (South West of France) to plug the car for charging before going to bed. I noticed unusual, faint light patterns in the night sky, like long spikes coming from the North. It was not the Milky Way, we can see every clear night. Color was mostly gray slightly pink. Wondered what was that ... My first aurora !!!
- mysterydip 2y ago> It was not the Milky Way, we can see every clear night. I'm exceedingly jealous. I don't think I've ever lived somewhere that I could see it, no matter how clear the night. Looking at images of "north america at night" vs "europe at night" I can see why.
- IG_Semmelweiss 2y agoIn most locations around the world , I think you are a 3 hour drive from a camping trip with milky way nightime exposure. Try it out! Enlist some of your hiking friends. They'll tell you where to go.
- Avalaxy 2y agoWith the milky way it's the same thing as the auroras. I went camping in the middle of nowhere USA, and on a clear night you can absolutely not see the milkyway the way it's portrayed in photos. It looks waaaaaaaaay less clear. You need a very long exposure camera to see it the same way as on the internet. The only difference with Europe is that I saw more stars, but none of those nebulas.
- BytesAndGears 2y agoNot entirely true, I was out hiking in the mountains of Colorado, and that was the best Milky Way view I’ve ever seen. It looked just like the crazy photos with millions of stars. Just laid on a rock staring at it for an hour
- amatecha 2y agoGo take some photos with your camera -- it will pick up brilliant colours from what looks like super dim/grey "clouds/glow" to our eyes :)
- matsemann 2y agoWhere do people get their forecasts? I often use this one, but it's not very usable outside Norway. Great if you click into each forecast (click the image) and get more details. Like how it actually covers the sky in that location. So that I can use that to plan (doesn't matter if it's strong if it's in a direction I can't see it) https://site.uit.no/spaceweather/data-and-products/aurora/oslo/#nogo https://site.uit.no/spaceweather/data-and-products/aurora/os... Used to use a NOAA page, but they changed it a while ago and don't find it as useful anymore. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-exper... Some weather services also have a kp index, but I often feel those can't be trusted, and don't tell the whole story. And aurora is quite hit or miss, so need more updated data. I have an app on my phone (AuroraNotifier) that chimes when there's hope. And then I use these others to plan a bit better. But some more interactive map akin to the uit.no one but where I can place myself around would be nice. Edit: someone posted this below, looks nice, have some other kinds of data https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html Edit2: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/anim=off/overlay=aurora/orthographic=12.20,58.57,822/loc=10.764,60.969 https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/an...
- jimmygrapes 2y agoGenerally I wake up and assess which of my body parts are experiencing issues. Pressure differentials play havoc upon internal pockets. Other than that I go outside and feel the temperature and humidity and witness the general movement (or abcence of movement) of cloud formations. I smell the air. Surprisingly, these sensations are pretty close to accurate when it comes to predicting local weather. I am not sure how to do that for space weather yet.
- NKosmatos 2y agoIt’s currently at Kp8. https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html
- coryfklein 2y agoWhat latitude do we expect to be able to see this in the USA?
- ceejayoz 2y agoPossibly as far south as Alabama. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/northern-lights-south-alabama-weekend-noaa/story?id=110101756 https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/northern-lights-south-alabama-...
- merek 2y agoSee the Auroral oval map https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html Right now it's appearing over North East US, and should become increasingly visible after sunset.
- Rwyt 2y agoWell visible in central Switzerland: https://feed.yellow.camera/rigi-scheidegg https://feed.yellow.camera/rigi-scheidegg https://feed.yellow.camera/rigi-rotstock https://feed.yellow.camera/rigi-rotstock
- bsdooby 2y agoCrazy, even Bern is bathed in Northern Lights
- MichaelZuo 2y agoJust amazing... I've only ever seen these kinds of photos at the north pole before.
- relyks 2y agoAre we supposed to be able to see anything in North America?
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- kzrdude 2y agoIn some places yes https://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/aurora-forecast-northern-hemisphere.jpg https://services.swpc.noaa.gov/images/aurora-forecast-northe...
- relyks 2y agoThanks! I have a small chance of seeing something lol
- mcint 2y agoKeep in mind, this is only a 30 minute leading forecast. And day-night status has a strong effect on the ionosphere, to the extent that radio stations have different regulated broadcast power day versus night, and amateur radio folks bounce radio off it at night.
- 0xcafecafe 2y agoItaly is not shown in the forecast zone but pics are surfacing from northern parts of it. Does that mean there is hope for southern US?
- sseagull 2y agoI dunno how far south you mean, but we see it in SW Virginia (which is outside the forecast zones that I’ve seen).
- idlewords 2y agoI'd wait until after sunset.
- hnthrowaway0328 2y agoIn Quebec and eagerly waiting for the sunset. Ah a few weeks ago the sun was the old lover and now please go away...
- insane_dreamer 2y agoAurora aside, that is a very cool website.
- impish19 2y agoThese Barbie promos are getting out of hand
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- hippich 2y agoIf I am in Texas, should I take care of anything? Like flip breakers or disconnect solar panels?
- _ph_ 2y agoNo, this is all quite harmless.
- billsmithaustin 2y agoAll of that. Plus, wrap your head in aluminum foil.
- _hcuq 2y agoOil the guns. Count the ammo.. .
- idlewords 2y agoIt never hurts to fire wildly into the air, Yosemite Sam style.
- ta988 2y agoNo only an issue with really long lengths of cables. Electrical companies have to mitigate
- mcv 2y agoI heard the aurora would be visible in Netherland, so living in Amsterdam I just went outside to check. Nothing. Maybe some very vague lighter bands in some places? Cities have too much light for this sort of thing.
- andrepd 2y agoYou're in the most light-polluted region of the continent. Unlikely you can see anything I'd wager x)
- grsmvg 2y agoI saw visible pink bands from my balcony in Amsterdam, showing bright pink fading to green when looking through my iPhone. And yes, lots of light pollution here. Shows how crazy strong this northern light was.
- willmadden 2y agoYou have to drive away from the city lights, turn off screens/lights, and let your eyes adjust. Cities are light polluted.
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- panzi 2y agoThank you! Just made some (blurry) long exposure photos on an old digital camera. Can't see it with the naked eye here.
- complex_pi 2y agoWell visible in Belgium starting around 23:30 ! Even with the naked eye ! (From outside the city)
- DoingIsLearning 2y agoStill true now? In the netherlands hard to tell anything. Certainly nothing on the level of the Swiss pictures being shared.
- complex_pi 2y agoI stayed up until about 1AM only. Views from the mountains are hard to match in any case 8-)
- clmul 2y agoAround 1 AM at night this was the view in the east of the Netherlands: https://imgur.com/a/kloWEOl https://imgur.com/a/kloWEOl With the naked eye I could see moving bright "clouds", and sometimes see streaks of red inside them. After 1:30 it died out quite rapidly for me.
- hyperluz 2y agoIs that happening because Earth is loosing its magnetic field and the end is near? ;)
- phyzome 2y agoPretty sure we get aurorae because we have a strong magnetic field...
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- alpha_squared 2y agoThis also appears to be happening in the southern hemisphere as well and growing brighter. My layman understanding is auroras are the result of coronal mass ejections interacting with Earth's atmosphere, but I don't recall these incidents being large enough to be so visible in the northern and southern hemispheres simultaneously.
- bsdooby 2y agoCarrington comes to mind…
- idlewords 2y agoThat had aurora visible in Florida and Hawaii. It's going to take a little more effort from the Sun to match that.
- willmadden 2y agoNot for long. The earth's magnetic field is decaying at an exponential rate as the poles shift. I believe we've spent far too much time worrying about CO2 and not nearly enough worrying about the dangers from our sun.
- twojacobtwo 2y ago> The earth's magnetic field is decaying at an exponential rate as the poles shift. Got any scientific sources for that claim? > I believe we've spent far too much time worrying about CO2 and not nearly enough worrying about the dangers from our sun. Other than hardening our power grid to the effects of solar storms, what exactly could we do WRT the sun and the magnetic field? Also, given our serious lack of progress on climate change targets and the glacial pace (pun intended) at which it has been accepted as 1) real and 2) anthropogenic, I think saying 'too much time' is inaccurate.
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- qwertox 2y agoHere are some visual tools NASA provides: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
- qclibre22 2y agoTypo, that's NOAA, not NASA.
- yodsanklai 2y agoAny chance it'll be there tomorrow too? Seems beautiful in the French alps, wonder if it's worth trying to go there tomorrow https://www.skaping.com/chamrousse/la-croix?archives=MTcxNTM3OTYwMA-YQ https://www.skaping.com/chamrousse/la-croix?archives=MTcxNTM...
- mcint 2y agoThere were some follow on flare events. "Additional activity expected" https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g5-conditions-observed https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g5-conditions-observed today https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/homepage https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/homepage in the future
- swader999 2y agoYep X5.8 registered about an hour ago.
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- mhandley 2y agoFirst time I've ever seen the aurora from West London - I always assumed the light polution would make it impossible to see, but here's a picture I took of it over the Thames: https://twitter.com/MarkJHandley/status/1789070802459000892 https://twitter.com/MarkJHandley/status/1789070802459000892
- s-xyz 2y agoThis is so freaking cool
- saalweachter 2y agoWhat's the lowest latitude it's being seen from in Europe?
- nraynaud 2y agoI don’t see it from Grenoble
- pcardoso 2y agoSeems to be visible in Portugal, sadly where I live the sky is overcast.
- Dibby053 2y agoThese were apparently taken from Calar Alto, Almería (37°13′25″N 2°32′46″W) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNQEcVZX0AA13FE?format=jpg&name=large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNQEcVZX0AA13FE?format=jpg&name=... https://img2.rtve.es/im/16098919/?w=900 https://img2.rtve.es/im/16098919/?w=900
- throwaway11460 2y agoFriends saw it on Canary Islands.
- aeonik 2y agoCould a G4 to G5 storm disrupt air planes while in flight? Do they ever cancel air travel for this level of storm?
- grafelic 2y agoI 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, morphing and shifting continuously. We went around the house and we could purple streaks at the top and orange to red patches at the bottom of the sky. Colors observed: Whitish blue, Green, Purple, Red, and Orange An absolutely a beautiful experience.
- niutech 2y agoCan you share a photo?
- grafelic 2y agoI took one semi successful photo using my crappy beat-down a20e Samsung phone. It doesn't do what we saw justice at all. https://imgur.com/5mlD22W https://imgur.com/5mlD22W
- frfl 2y agografelic's image looks totally black on my crappy laptop monitor unless I turn brightness up to 100%, even then it's barely noticeable. Here's a color enhanced version of grafelic's photo that shows the color bands more easily, https://i.imgur.com/IS8JWD8.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/IS8JWD8.jpeg Added some blur after color adjustments to remove pixelation artifacts.
- bozhark 2y agoI’m b mobile, it’s still black with a lil highlight. Near, but definitely not retrospective
- gareth_untether 2y agoWhen I took photos of the northern lights on my Sony RX1 the colours became much stronger. I assumed all digital cameras captured the colours better than our eyes.
- gmuslera 2y agoThose are close to the places in Europe where they are growing triffids?
- DonaldFisk 2y agoScotland, 56 degrees north. I expected to see the aurora near the northern horizon, but it was visible east, west and even south, from 11:00pm (2200hrs UTC) until 12:15am (2315UTC). Easily visible to the naked eye. Took good photos on 1 second exposures, ISO 2500.
- manx 2y agoDo you mind sharing a photo?
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- gizajob 2y agoiPhone 14 from my back yard in (extremely light polluted) Liverpool, England. https://photos.app.goo.gl/KPUMabcnNG6E5gZ77 https://photos.app.goo.gl/KPUMabcnNG6E5gZ77
- lsllc 2y agoAnyone have any DSLR settings recommendations? (newbie here, Canon EOS R5). Located North Eastern US, just about approaching dusk. Fingers crossed!
- eloisius 2y agoCrank your ISO up and play with shutter speed. You need a tripod to capture anything satisfactory.
- esmein 2y agoDon't be afraid of Iso, you might want manual focus, mirrorless cameras even as good as the R5 have a hard time focusing on "nothing at infinity". Largest aperture your lens can do (biggest hole, smallest f number) and the recommended shutter speeds. I had luck with iso 3200, f1.4 and 1/6s shutter handheld on a sony a7iv with a 35mm f1.4 GM.
- lsllc 2y agoThanks! Now I just need some cosmic rays to light the sky!
- knolan 2y agoTripod. Long exposure and keep ISO lowish. You may need to manually focus as there won’t be a clear object to focus on. Shoot RAW and you can tweak the image better to pull down the brightness of the sky to help the colours stand out.
- dddrh 2y agoUse a tripod and use a remote or set a 2 second delay on your shutter press if you start using longer exposures at low iso (anything longer than 1/10 of a second IMO) Settings really depend on the effect you are trying to capture: - if you want to try and capture it like your eye sees it: high iso (as high as you can stand) and aim for between 1/500 and 1/30. - if you want to capture a more painterly look with the whole sky colored in: low iso (I’d start at 200) and long exposure >3 seconds. Probably between 3 and 30 seconds depending on the available light. Those should get you started to experiment and find what you like. Enjoy! Oh yea. Turn off the focus light, turn off the screen, and turn off the red blinking indicators. Turn all the lights off so you can preserve your night vision.
- nico 2y agoThis is related to the cycles of Earth’s core Our planet’s magnetic field is “entangled” with the Sun’s activity This unusual flare means unusual activity for our magnetic field, hence for the core as well It would be cool to have some realtime comparison/visualization of Earths magnetic core activity, vs solar flares
- robxorb 2y agoCould you provide sources for this? Sounds plausible, given it is electromagnetic energy.
- nico 2y agoJust speculating It’s known that the magnetic core is generating/sustaining the magnetic field, which means that anything that happens to the field, has some sort of counterpart in the core So it would be cool to have that data: what happens inside Earth’s core when a big magnetic event is affecting it’s magnetic field
- bamboozled 2y agoThe earth is the greatest spaceship we’ll ever know. Complete magic is this phenomenon. Feels like one is engulfed in the Aurora when it’s strong. First time I experienced it the arctic circle actually scared me.
- will1am 2y agoIt's really damn beautiful, but it's scary. Whenever there are events on Earth that aren't typical of nature at regular times for some reason I always think it's not a good sign..
- throwaway11460 2y agoDon't worry, it's very typical. Just the timescales are literally astronomical.
- pelagicAustral 2y agoI'm in the southern hemisphere (near Antarctica) and the sight is absolutely insane, almost terrifying... its a bright red aurora. Never seen anything like it.
- tracyhenry 2y agoplease post a photo!
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- pelagicAustral 2y agoI was out last night, but here you go: https://ibb.co/68hPjRT https://ibb.co/68hPjRT
- jiehong 2y agoThat’s deep red! Quite a different sight!
- tracyhenry 2y agoThank you, this looks amazing
- proxyon 2y agopeople live near antartica?
- marmakoide 2y agoUshaiha and the Falklands?
- vitorgrs 2y agoEven in Uruguay it can be seen... Incredible.
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- jeffmess 2y agoI can see brown I can see blue I can see violet sky…
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- retrac 2y agoIf you want the best possible view with the naked eye, give them a chance to adapt to the dark properly. The human eye is about 100,000 more sensitive after an hour in total darkness. A smartphone screen or car headlight is enough to undo it.
- kragen 2y agocar headlights are brighter than the sun from a short enough distance; perhaps you think we can guess what distance you're talking about seeing the car headline from, but actually you have to be explicit about it
- throwaway_ab 2y agoIn the dark notice how much light comes from a phone and how much that illuminates the person holding the phone. A car headlight shining your way from hundreds of meters even over 1km will often illuminate that person far more than their phone screen. So if the phone screen is enough to undo the hour long eyes adjusting to the dark duration, then the car headlights at almost any realistic distance causes an undo.
- kragen 2y agoa headlight a kilometer away may be spread over 36000 square meters including your face. (more detailed info on headlight antenna gain would be appreciated.) a 1200-lumen high beam over that area is 0.03 lux a 500 nit phone screen emitting over about a steradian from an 80mm × 160mm area is 6.4 lumens, but at night you usually turn it down to minimum brightness, say 0.6 lumens. (i haven't measured.) at a distance of 300mm that steradian is 0.09m², so it's about 6 lux so the cellphone is about 200 times brighter than the headlight at that distance, and that's also observable from looking at people using cellphones walking on the highway but the person i was asking for more detail didn't specify that the headlight is pointed at your face; and in most situations where you can see headlights, they're not pointed at you. that's just a detail you filled in
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- petarb 2y agoI missed the news around this. Can someone share why this is happening? I thought this was only visible more north and usually green. Thanks!
- pizza 2y agoLargest solar storm in 20 years
- DeepYogurt 2y agoHow long ahead of time can one forecast these events?
- superkuh 2y agoRealistically only about half an hour. There are instruments at the L1 lagrange point that can measure the properties of the solar wind and/or CME as they pass and allowed real informed responses to events. There are also very, very simplified CME propagation models (WSA-ENLIL, etc) that can start with some assumptions and give a reasonable idea about when the CME will arrive within ~12 hours. But for every time the simulations succesfully predict severe geomagnetic events or the like they give false positives a couple dozen times. The simulations cannot predict the geoeffectiveness.
- nomilk 2y agoAnyone know of sources/sites that track the magnitude of geomagnetic storms as a time series? (interested to gauge the magnitude of recent ones relative to those of the past, similarly to how we may do so for earthquakes)
- gaudystead 2y agoPerhaps not quite what you're looking for, but this might give you a start: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_storms https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_storms
- jeffhuys 2y agohttps://spaceweathernews.com/ https://spaceweathernews.com/
- sarusso 2y agoVisible in North Italy as well. Unexpected!
- sarusso 2y agoPic here: https://twitter.com/_sarusso/status/1789112947165270298 https://twitter.com/_sarusso/status/1789112947165270298
- LelouBil 2y agoI'm near paris and don't see anything :(
- blululu 2y agoThis is so cool. I just made a Timelapse from the images of the linked camera: https://youtu.be/pgexFsYzRYE https://youtu.be/pgexFsYzRYE
- ninkendo 2y agoChecking in from Detroit here… the aurora is actually super visible on the iPhone camera. Much more than from the naked eye (although they are slightly visible… I have a lot of light pollution around me though.) I’m curious what causes it to come in better in my iPhones sensors… different wavelengths perhaps?
- ipqk 2y agolonger exposure times.
- ninkendo 2y agoThe longer exposure doesn’t seem to affect other aspects of the night sky though, I can see stars way better with the naked eye than my phone will show. That’s probably just because of stars being point sources and hard for the camera to focus on in an otherwise black night sky.
- exitb 2y agoAnother factor is color - our eyes don’t notice it well in low light, so the patches don’t stand out. Camera sensor is equally sensitive to colors at all brightness levels.
- cozzyd 2y agoJust saw it in downtown Chicago (by the lake). Faint, but visible with naked eye. Easier to capture with my pixel 8 than with my (handheld) DSLR, even with a fast lens...kicking myself for not grabbing my tripod
- chicagojoe 2y agoFellow Chicagoan here! I went down one of the piers and saw it as well. At first it looked like cirrus clouds but the colors emerged as my eyes acclimated. I thought it was my brain hallucinating the details it expected but my phone validated what I was seeing. Truly stunning even with just a 2sec exposure.
- dgellow 2y agoDamn, I missed it
- sva_ 2y agoI just came home, went up the mountains. Absolutely crazy what I was able to see. I live somewhere mid to north Germany. Super stoked to go further up north based on what I saw in the sky. I have to say the images don't even nearly do justice to what I saw tonight, it was absolutely amazing. I spent some 6 hours up there. Just poor phone images, sorry. https://imgur.com/a/lPI9EXc https://imgur.com/a/lPI9EXc
- dylan604 2y agofrom sheer curiosity, I had to try to see what was in that image. just a meager push of the exposure revealed some color on top of the horrid compression: https://imgur.com/a/D7MGjoS https://imgur.com/a/D7MGjoS
- rl3 2y agoIt's dawn now, did anyone happen to screenshot that page during the night? The mosaic of pink/purple skies was rather beautiful, but I'm afraid preserving it slipped my mind.
- Geee 2y agoI just found out that if you select a webcam you can actually go back in time, or even do a 'backwards timelapse' from the view menu. There's also a 'best of' which seems to have a collection of quite nice shots from all webcams: https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/bestof/ https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/bestof/
- rl3 2y agoAwesome, thank you!
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- roschdal 2y agoIt's the apocalypse.
- TylerE 2y agoCan't see it from where I am in North Carolina as it's sadly overcast, but I'm sseeing photos from friends as far south as Georgia and Alabama of vivid pink auroras.
- squarefoot 2y agoAny Ham Radio operators here can share their experience if and how much it affected radio communications?
- tarxvf 2y agoI heard CW on 144.2MHz with auroral flutter meaning (if I understand correctly) it propagated through or off the aurora. So that's cool!
- sagischwarz 2y agoHere are some phone pics from my home village in Germany: https://www.nowhereinparticular.xyz/polarlichter.html https://www.nowhereinparticular.xyz/polarlichter.html This was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. My brother, who is a hobby astronomer, called me and sent me outside. Initially, I saw only a faint red glow in the northeast of the sky, but after a few minutes, my eyes adapted and I could see how it slowly moved and changed its form over time. I stayed outside for maybe 15 minutes and then went back inside. An hour later, I went outside again and almost the whole sky was shining in all different colors and forms, from patches to clouds to pillars that seemed to support the heavens, ever chaning. Incredible.
- weinzierl 2y agoIs your village north, middle or south Germany. Just curious how much I missed:-/
- sagischwarz 2y agoMid-west, in an area called Hunsrück.
- weinzierl 2y agoThanks, I'm in Bavaria, so there might have been be a chance and the other comments say there are more solar storms upcoming. Definitely will have my eyes in the sky tonight. The images are amazing, btw.
- samus 2y agoIt should definitely have been possible to see it from Bavaria. It was definitely visible in northern Italy. Big cities might have to much light pollution though. Let's hope we get lucky tonight.
- h4ckerle 2y agoOT but I didn't realise until now the Hunsrück was a real place... I always assumed it was invented for Werwölfe von Düsterwald!
- tolerantgravity 2y ago9 hours later and we saw similar sights in the Pacific Northwest in the US! Pretty awesome.
- kilianinbox 2y agoStockholm Sweden at ~4am https://x.com/aimkilian/status/1789188389108933097?s=46&t=Md_MMdhrp1VxA2uNsYZNCA https://x.com/aimkilian/status/1789188389108933097?s=46&t=Md...
- msephton 2y agoCan't believe I slept through this.
- dan_can_code 2y agoYou may get another chance tonight.
- xanderlewis 2y agoI’m in Aberdeen for the weekend. Saw nothing whatsoever.
- wiredfool 2y agoMe too, but it’s because I slept through it. Feeling better now.
- weinzierl 2y agoI am sad that I missed it. I there some sort of forecast service that tells when there is a good chance to see an aurora in a particular place?
- ricardo81 2y agoI also missed it. Meant to be happening again tonight though.
- doodlebugging 2y agoIf you go to https://spaceweather.com https://spaceweather.com they have a link for text alerts when these things are about to happen. That is one way. I visit that site and a similar site for CME and space weather information: https://www.spaceweatherlive.com https://www.spaceweatherlive.com There is a lot to see and to follow. I just came back inside after snapping pics since just after dark here in N Texas. We had a good show that started off behind the clouds but it was bright enough to shine through the clouds. Then a few hours later after the clouds cleared it was great. My camera battery quit on me. I used three cameras tonight and only really got usable photos from my iphone, whose camera I normally hate because it always seems to process images after I take them. Part of it is probably on me since I haven't taken the time to study how to optimize settings. Anyway. Tomorrow should be another good day for this. Keep your eyes on the sky!
- Ladsko 2y ago
- xinayder 2y agoI'm on a trip visiting my friend in Central Finland and yesterday we had a 96% warning for aurora chance. Unfortunately, for us, the sky was quite cloudy and we didn't get a chance to see the lights. When we were heading back home I saw a faint line of blueish-purple in the sky, which seemed unusual, and told my friends "hey what if this is the aurora". I checked the photos from the other people that claimed they saw the lights and it checked out with what I've seen.
- sgt101 2y agoHow did this compare to the Carrington event?
- keepamovin 2y agoThe EM disturbance to Earth (Dst) of Carrington was -1000, whereas this one was -250. But the flare that produced Carrington was estimated to be an X80, whereas our max was around an X3.98. I think that means that Carrington produced around 0.008 W/m^2 of X-ray flux whereas ours produced around 0.0004 The non-linear effect (20x weaker flare only 4x less effect) is accounted for by how Earth's magnetic field has weakened in the ~165 years since Carrington.
- inamorty 2y agoYou could read a newspaper from the light in the middle of the night during the Carrington event, so not comparable at all.
- heavenlyblue 2y agoCitation needed
- inamorty 2y agoSure thing: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20050210157/downloads/20050210157.pdf https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20050210157/downloads/20...
- beretguy 2y agoThat’s what I want to know but everybody just talks about how pretty it is. I want to know if it was dangerous to our electronics, and if not then how close it came to being dangerous, you know, small things like that.
- samus 2y agoIf it was dangerous, we would know by now. As it is, we are still able to use the internet. Major outages would be all over the news.
- kzisme 2y agoSuper visible with the naked eye an hour and a half east of Denver. At some points the whole sky turned colors from green/pink/blue. https://imgur.com/a/8TJpI5i https://imgur.com/a/8TJpI5i Some photos if anyone is interested
- mkaszkowiak 2y agoThis aurora was really powerful! I could see it with a naked eye from a town in central Poland, despite cloudy weather and light pollution. Feels great to finally see it in person
- bcye 2y agoFor those coming here during the day, they have a page with the best images of tonight: https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/bestof/ https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/bestof/
- savolai 2y agoHere’s a time archive of all the cams https://www.foto-webcam.eu/2024/05/10/2230 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/2024/05/10/2230
- moooo99 2y agoI live in a relatively big city where light pollution is obviously a huge thing. But the aurora was so strong that even we were able to make it out, although not as intensively beautiful as on all those webcam feeds
- SenHeng 2y agoDoes anyone have a direct link to the time period when the aurora hits? All I see is a beautiful sunny day.
- DoingIsLearning 2y agoI think for most folks in Europe it was between 23:00 and 03:00 CET yesterday. Not sure what future forecasts are. I guess NOAA will probably have some prediction.
- nalinidash 2y agoYou can find the images here: https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/bestof/ https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/bestof/ Approx time(as per the snapshots): 10.05.24 22:00-11.05.24 4:20
- pbhjpbhj 2y agohttps://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/specialist-forecasts/space-weather https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/specialist-forecasts/sp... shows a video-style timeline of predictions for both Northern and Southern hemisphere. I'm not sure what "percentage" corresponds to visible aurorae though, anyone know?
- djhworld 2y agoI didn't see anything with the naked eye (UK), probably too much light pollution, but I took a photo of the sky with my phone and you could definitely see it.
- Havoc 2y agoSame. Central London though so pretty hopeless on light pollution anyway
- divbzero 2y agoThe sky has been lighting up in North America too. I’ve heard reports of the aurora from New England and, here in the Pacific Northwest, it’s currently visible by naked eye and striking in long exposure shots. I always thought I would have to visit Alaska or Scandinavia to see the northern lights, never thought I could catch a glimpse so close to home.
- jamesbfb 2y agoAnd parts of Melbourne, Australia too! Never in my life have I seen this here. It’s a wonderful thing to see.
- sen 2y agoCentral Victoria here, absolutely insane view with greens and purples through the sky.
- nojvek 2y agoMost of North US and Canada is also glowing pink today. Got many messages from friends in Washington and BC. What a wonderful sight.
- btbuildem 2y agoMany of the photos here show it in such vivid colour, but for me the really breathtaking part was the scale and movement of the aurora. Last night (here in Quebec) the entire sky was filled with colour. It's not as intense in person, but the slow shimmer of it is otherworldly. I was up on my roof for almost an hour, watching the blobs undulate in the sky. I think it made a bigger impression on me than the recent eclipse.
- BillionAI 2y agoGirlfriend sent me pictures from Aarhus, DK. Was absolutely stunning!
- g7vrd 2y agoYou can see the effects of the CME on the HF amateur radio bands. This live map (https://g7vrd.co.uk/wspr/IO81 https://g7vrd.co.uk/wspr/IO81) would usually be full of worldwide contacts being reported by WSPR (Weak Signal Propagation Reporter), but the solar flares have closed down the bands quite considerably. The map is centred on Maidenhead grid square IO81, but you can change it to wherever you are: https://www.whatsmylocator.co.uk/ https://www.whatsmylocator.co.uk/ This will also cause problems with aircraft, as they use HF when they're out of sight of land.
- navane 2y agowhy was all the news about eurovision songfestival and nothing about this
- Ylpertnodi 2y agoIsrael?
- aussieguy1234 2y agoI 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.
- 77pt77 2y agoAurora australis are dimmer than aurora borealis.
- aussieguy1234 2y agoSource? I believe it depends on what part of the magnetic field the CME hits. There are more people living closer to the north pole which might give that impression initially. 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.
- pmarreck 2y agoI have no idea what's going on because I have a toddler. Can someone catch me up here?
- _giorgio_ 2y agoDid anyone screenshot it?
- atulatul 2y agoOff topic maybe but Europe is so beautiful. I wish I get to travel across Europe with leisure.
- alt0_ 2y agoFeel free to go outside in headphones and put this[0] on. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=086uhG3Rf3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=086uhG3Rf3U
- wslh 2y agoFrom Ushuaia, Argentina close to Patagonia: https://www.reddit.com/r/argentina/comments/1cp89bf/aurora_austral_en_ushuaia/ https://www.reddit.com/r/argentina/comments/1cp89bf/aurora_a...
- bsimpson 2y agoNow that it's over, the timestamp should be in the link: https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/lucknerhaus/2024/05/10/2240 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/lucknerhaus/2024/05/10/224...
- thunkshift1 2y agoWhy is it pink and not green
- jlrubin 2y agoi have the unique experience of being in a plane over the Bering sea a few hours ago. https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin/status/1789273537179426922 https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin/status/1789273537179426922 i was going nuts in my seat and seemed to be the only one on the plane aware of what was going on.
- rpmisms 2y agoIs anyone else experiencing slow Internet during this? I'm not sure if it's related or confirmation bias, but it's been crawling since the storm hit.
- spongebobism 2y agoIs it the Aurora or is it the Eurovision finals? We may never know...
- lytfyre 2y agoWent about an hour north of Vancouver BC Canada to get away from bit city lights and watch. It was probably not the brightest small strands I've ever seen - if my memories of Northern Saskatchewan as a kid are still accurate - but I don't think I've seen the whole sky light up to such an extent. here's a photo: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fu6py9oy2puzc1.jpeg https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fu... magenta and green colours were clearly visible in person during the intense periods, although obviously not as bright or intense as long exposure photos. Solidly visible bands for at least the two hours I stayed out.
- GTP 2y agoI missed it last night, but I heard it will repeat it tonight. I'm going to try to see it. It's unheard of at this latitute, currently I'm on an island in Tuscany, center of Italy. Edit: I found online that the last one visible from Italy was in 2003, so not unheard of but still rare.
- andrewstuart 2y agoClearly no-one read Day of the Triffids. Don't look.
- vbilopav 2y agoI thought it was because of Eurovision
- Sparkyte 2y agoCan it be seen with the naked eye? I didn't see anything last night.
- 082349872349872 2y agoSorry all, had the following comment in the wrong thread yesterday: My unindicted co-conspirator is a much bigger fan of song contests than I am, but sometimes you just have to wonder at the production values: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyUsNgu4GAI&t=550s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyUsNgu4GAI&t=550s
- globular-toast 2y agoWent out into a meadow near town last night. Couldn't see a thing. Light pollution was probably too bad. But it was really funny to see a bunch of people milling about in the meadow at almost midnight. Many of them idiots walking around with phone torches destroying their and everyone else's night vision. The shocking thing to me, though, is the number of satellites in the sky. This was a shit sky, way beyond what people would call "milky". Hardly any stars visible. But everywhere you looked there were satellites. I remember it being rare to see one only 15 years ago. Almost couldn't believe you could really see them back then. But now... Everywhere. I had no idea how congested it was getting up there. Wish I could leave Earth. But also glad we can't because we'd fuck that up too.
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- djha-skin 2y agoWe went out to Simpson Springs in Utah to see the borealis. There was a bit of a flare up. Like others have said it looked like streaky fog to the naked eye. My camera picked up something a little better. My wife's camera was a Samsung Galaxy Ultra S21 and she picked up gold it looks so good on her camera but anyway here's my shot. https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/jytxIMvelaGs https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/jytxIMvelaGs You can see the lights of dugway Utah in the background