go look outside

[SMKR]

One of the rare times you can see the
northern lights from north texas

[paul_376]

I dont see nothing

[Tx Redneck]

I got nothin...

[GE]

Oh I see some northern lights alright... hoooold it... hooooooold it!

[347Mike]

lulz at people actually going outside.

[paul_376]

I see police lights thats all

[SMKR]

http://spaceweather.com/

GEOMAGNETIC STORM IN PROGRESS: A major geomagnetic storm is in progress following the impact of a CME on August 5th around 1800 UT. Sky watchers at all latitudes should be alert for auroras after nightfall. Tip: the best hours for aurora sightings are usually around local midnight. Aurora alerts: text, voice.

Reports of Northern Lights are coming in from many European countries including Germany, Denmark, Scotland and the Netherlands.

Analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab say that the CME impact may have strongly compressed Earth's magnetic field, directly exposing satellites in geosynchronous orbit to solar wind plasma. Stay tuned for updates on this aspect of the storm.

The arriving CME left the sun on August 4th, propelled by an M9.3-category eruption in the magnetic canopy of sunspot 1261. Click on the image to view a movie of the expanding cloud recorded by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory:


Note: The many speckles in this movie are caused by energetic solar protons hitting the camera.

July 2011 Aurora Gallery
[previous Julys: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003]

NIGHT-TIME SOLAR RADIO BURST: The M9-class solar flare of August 4th produced a burst of shortwave static so powerful that receivers on Earth picked it up after sunset. "A RadioJove observer in Florida recorded the burst when the sun was 38 degrees below the horizon," reports amateur radio astronomer Thomas Ashcraft. Ashcraft's own radio telescope in New Mexico recorded the event 1 hour and 54 minutes after sunset:

"To my knowledge, receptions like this are very rare," says Ashcraft.

Indeed they are. This event brings to mind the iconic night-time solar radio burst of March 8, 1958. Five radio telescopes at the University of Florida picked up emissions from the sun while observing the planet Jupiter in tthe middle of the night. On the other side of the world, radio astronomers in daylit Australia confirmed that a powerful solar radio burst had taken place at that exact time. The event is described in a 1959 Nature paper by pioneering radio astronomers Alex Smith and Tom Carr. They considered the possibility that solar radio waves might have been reflected by the Moon or carried to the night side of Earth by ionospheric ducting. In tthe end, they could not conclusively explain what happened and to this day night-time solar radio bursts remain a puzzle.

[347Mike]

Which way is north?

[slow55]

Too fucking hot to go outside

[SMKR]

Which way is north?

up

[Wicked98Snake]

Too fucking hot to go outside

X2

[pHILSANITY07]

this might be better if you lived out in the country and away from the city. You could probably see it if it wasnt for all the light pollution. I was outside for about 10 mins and saw a little. Still freaking sweet, I've always wanted to see that and I can check that off now.

[SMKR]

Too fucking hot to go outside

not really, i just put the water out and it was okay

[347Mike]

I didn't see shit.

[stevo]

One of the rare times you can see the
northern lights from north texas

'Cocaine is one hell of a drug.'

Stevo