Saturday 23 March 2019

Can you feel the aurora?

Aurora, seen from my QTH, 2015 October 07

As we await a G2 geomagnetic storm in the next few hours,  this recent research output is worth thinking about:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190321083637.htm

Kp between 5 and 7 expected tonight (23/03/19).  Image: http://www.aurora-service.eu/aurora-school/all-about-the-kp-index/

5 comments:

Darren said...

Kaspersky is telling me that your aurora pic is a phishing link ! It won't display the photo either.

Photon said...

Well, it's my own photo, has only gone from my computer to Blogger, and is kosher in all ways. Kaspersky is getting it wrong - and it's a Russian-based software!

Darren said...

I think Kaspersky had a real hiccup there. All is well now. No idea what was going on. No aurora from my QTH sadly.

PE4BAS, Bas said...

Curious, did you spot aurora last night?

Photon said...

No. The forecast glancing blow from a CME never actually hit the Earth. But the spot that produced the CME was still growing significantly when it vanished over the limb, so maybe next month we'll see something?