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Slight chance Northern Lights tonight!

  • 10-08-2010 5:05pm
    #1
    BEASTERLY
    Registered Users Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭


    Ok we have a CME associated with a strong M-Class solar flare which occured on August 7th heading for Earth.

    From Spaceweather.com: ''The solar eruption of August 7th might affect Earth after all. Newly-arriving data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) show a CME heading our way with a significant Earth-directed component.''

    A slight risk but worth keeping an eye out all the same!

    poes_image_europe_20100810.gif

    http://spaceweather.com/

    Fingers crossed anyway. Just keep an eye on the Kp index.


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  • #2
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    HERE S TO HOPING!


  • #3
    Iancar29
    Registered Users Posts: 5,068 ✭✭✭Iancar29


    Also for the persied meteor shower this is quite good!

    ITS A METEOR/satellite radar! :)

    http://topaz.streamguys.tv/~spaceweather/index.html

    Listen out for a "ping"....and thats something shooting across the sky.

    I class it as a sonar tough rather than a radar.


  • #4
    BEASTERLY
    Registered Users Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭BEASTERLY


    Iancar29 wrote: »
    Also for the persied meteor shower this is quite good!

    ITS A METEOR/satellite radar! :)

    http://topaz.streamguys.tv/~spaceweather/index.html

    Listen out for a "ping"....and thats something shooting across the sky.

    I class it as a sonar tough rather than a radar.

    Thanks will be listening tonight! Clear skies here in Wexford... for once:)


  • #5
    BEASTERLY
    Registered Users Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭BEASTERLY


    Never mind. Kp index is currently only at 1 currently... sigh

    Maybe next time eh? It's still worth going out to have a look at the meteors!


  • #6
    xi
    Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭xi


    BEASTERLY wrote: »
    Never mind. Kp index is currently only at 1 currently... sigh

    Maybe next time eh? It's still worth going out to have a look at the meteors!

    Kp 2 now

    Oval seems to be descending

    poes_image_europe_20100810.gif


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  • #7
    maquiladora
    Registered Users Posts: 11,134 ✭✭✭✭maquiladora


    You'd want to be about as far north as Iceland to see any Northern Lights tonight lads.

    Were going to have to wait for a decent event again to get a lightshow down here. The good news is chances will increase over the next couple of years.


  • #8
    BEASTERLY
    Registered Users Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭BEASTERLY


    xi wrote: »
    Kp 2 now

    Oval seems to be descending

    poes_image_europe_20100810.gif

    We'll need a Kp index of atleast 7 preferably 8 or 9.

    Maybe next ime.


  • #9
    xi
    Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭xi


    BEASTERLY wrote: »
    We'll need a Kp index of atleast 7 preferably 8 or 9.

    Maybe next ime.

    Ah t1ts

    Anyway snowing here in Limerick :D


  • #10
    Ilyushin76
    Registered Users Posts: 668 ✭✭✭Ilyushin76


    xi wrote: »
    Ah t1ts

    Anyway snowing here in Limerick :D

    I think we have a troll:mad:


  • #11
    pauldry
    Registered Users Posts: 6,871 ✭✭✭pauldry


    Skys green here! Oh wait I sneezed on the window :D


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  • #12
    xi
    Registered Users Posts: 388 ✭✭xi


    John85 wrote: »
    I think we have a troll:mad:

    Cheer up John.


  • #13
    Ilyushin76
    Registered Users Posts: 668 ✭✭✭Ilyushin76


    xi wrote: »
    Cheer up John.

    ok:)


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