Northern lights Jan 9th

Effects

Anyone hear anything about the northern lights being visable tonight?

username123

Yes, the Indo had an article on it today:
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/higher-chance-to-see-aurora-borealis-from-ireland-tonight-29902160.html

Its due to a solar flare on tuesday. Its a good clear evening so far so I am ready to check North between 9pm and 1am!

Effects

Cheers for the link. Think I'll get my camera and head out so. I'm in North County Dublin so hopefully head to a coastline and avoid some of the light pollution.

Oscar_Drai

Effects wrote: »

Cheers for the link. Think I'll get my camera and head out so. I'm in North County Dublin so hopefully head to a coastline and avoid some of the light pollution.

Where will you go? We'd like to go somewhere like Howth but we know nothing about astronomy so would love to join a group!

Standman

Am i right in saying the light pollution of Dublin city would rule out any chance of seeing it here?

robclay26

Any opinions if it be viable in North Meath? Never got to see them before. Was thinking of heading out in to the dark countryside for a look

murrayp4

Any tips on where to go North of Dublin city to get dark skies?

I wish I was in my sweet sweet home of County Mayo tonight

Oscar_Drai

murrayp4 wrote: »

Any tips on where to go North of Dublin city to get dark skies?

I wish I was in my sweet sweet home of County Mayo tonight

What about Howth? We live in Fairview and thought of sitting at the park but it might not be just far enough from the city, am I right?

dandadub

Swords direction here. Where's the best viewing point from here??

username123

Standman wrote: »

Am i right in saying the light pollution of Dublin city would rule out any chance of seeing it here?

Probably but I'm still out for a look in a while! I'm on the edge of the dublin mountains, fingers crossed!

Zyzz

Anyone got any updates or sightings yet? Cloud seems to be creeping in

deise08

anybody reckon they be visible in Waterford or am I too far south?

TouchingVirus

deise08 wrote: »

anybody reckon they be visible in Waterford or am I too far south?

You're too far south I'm afraid. See sideways map here. You can see any chance ends really around Tipp

deise08

TouchingVirus wrote: »

You're too far south I'm afraid. See sideways map here. You can see any chance ends really around Tipp

kinda had a feeling alright. ah I might head out for a spin up tip direction,see how I fare out.
Would be amazing to see.
thanks very much for the reply.

Zyzz

Any point going out to Howth, to anyone out there already can ya see anything? :pac:

lolie

The CME hit earth about an hour ago but was a lot weaker than expected.
As its stands now theres Zero chance of seeing the Aurora anywhere in Ireland:(

Oscar_Drai

lolie wrote: »

The CME hit earth about an hour ago but was a lot weaker than expected.
As its stands now theres Zero chance of seeing the Aurora anywhere in Ireland:(

How do you know that?

username123

Too much cloud here to see a thing.

lolie

Oscar_Drai wrote: »

How do you know that?

From looking at sites like Spaceweatherlive.com http://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/auroral-activity

The solar wind speed and density is a lot lower than expected.
The KP index is only KP2 now but would need to be at least KP5 or more (it goes from 0 to 9) to give us any chance to see Aurora from Ireland

Effects

I'm going to head out to Loughshinny, between Rush and Skerries

ZeRoY

KP is climbing to 3 over last few minutes, it was late hitting and now its late showing strength but its not over yet! Clouds on the other hand... :mad:

Sources:

http://www.softservenews.com/Aurora.htm

http://helios.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation/North_New.html

ZeRoY

If you're in Norway however...

https://twitter.com/EpicCosmos/status/421435475643994113/photo/1

ZeRoY

Good recap page, sry if already posted!

http://www.aurora-service.eu/aurora-forecast/

lolie

If you live up north and its clear head out and look for Aurora.
KP-6 now, bright aurora being seen all over Scotland and in northern England.

MeteoritesEire

damn wish I'd seen this earlier--my friends here in Donegal got some cracking pics tonight--green and big red flares-amazing

Ritas shot is from Dooey Beach
Sarahs both taken in Falcarragh with Tory island lights visible in first one

mr chips

Saw it in north Antrim, looking over the hills towards Rathlin. No photos unfortunately but really breathtaking - much clearer than it was last month.

Kersh

I kept checking in vain hope every 20 minutes from Julianstown.

Too cloudy. I gave up and went to bed (probably too early!) at midnight.

mattser

MeteoritesEire wrote: »

damn wish I'd seen this earlier--my friends here in Donegal got some cracking pics tonight--green and big red flares-amazing

Ritas shot is from Dooey Beach
Sarahs both taken in Falcarragh with Tory island lights visible in first one

Absolutely gorgeous. Wish I was there.

ankaragucu

Will it be happening again tonight?

lolie

ankaragucu wrote: »

Will it be happening again tonight?

Afraid not, its died down again.

EUSTY500

Thinking about heading north tomorrow night but forecasts aren't great (I think). Does anyone know anything about forecasts for the next few days?

MeteoritesEire

some more cracking shots emerging-FB seemed to be having a hiccup and I couldn't download--lovely one of Dunluce Castle from last night and Giants Causeway too--search facebook for Martina Gardner

seems like everyone who made it out last night got alerts from Aurora Alerts by Softserve on FB
https://www.facebook.com/AuroraAlerts

ankaragucu

EUSTY500 wrote: »

Thinking about heading north tomorrow night but forecasts aren't great (I think). Does anyone know anything about forecasts for the next few days?

Think the activity has died down now, visible again tonight?

lolie

Anyone heading up north tonight to try and view the Aurora is wasting their time unless their going up to the artic circle.
Not a hope of seeing them from Ireland tonight.

MeteoritesEire

yeah it's all over for now-might be another 10 years til something on that scale happens again here.

Rubecula

MeteoritesEire wrote: »

yeah it's all over for now-might be another 10 years til something on that scale happens again here.

Wonderful photo