Northern Lights

Aerohead

Several aircraft reporting to Shannon on 124.700 that they are having spectacular views of the Northern Lights, anyone see anything

ProfessorPlum

Unfortunately not up there at the moment. Strong geomagnetic storm in progress, with best conditions in Northern Europe and on east into asia. Storm conditions are forecast to continue, albeit weaker for the next few days, still with a possibility of stronger G3 conditions, so good times ahead for aurora hunters!

durandal01

Has anybody noticed any airliners that are usually routed high over the arctic take a lower latitude route because of the strong solar radiation?
I remember reading somewhere about this happening during particularly fierce solar storms.
Concorde carried a radiation meter because it flew at a higher altitude (less atmosphere) than other commercials.

Negative_G

durandal01 wrote: »

Has anybody noticed any airliners that are usually routed high over the arctic take a lower latitude route because of the strong solar radiation?
I remember reading somewhere about this happening during particularly fierce solar storms.
Concorde carried a radiation meter because it flew at a higher altitude (less atmosphere) than other commercials.

On this point. I've heard of a couple of private operators who log flight time above 40,000 feet in order to measure the time spent exposed to potential galactic radiation.

Here's an FAA article which discusses it which is particularly important for female aircrew who may be pregnant.

http://www.solarstorms.org/FAAAirlines.html

Tenger

Managed to snap this about a month ago. Would have loved to be over Greenland on Wednesday night

Aurora Borealis by tearbringer, on Flickr

_Tombstone_

It's expected Tonight again.

https://twitter.com/Aurora_ireland/status/661255517885636608