Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.bofh.team!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail From: Wanderer Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: OT: Auroras Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 06:24:44 Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: <122157@dontemail.com> References: Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="2001971"; posting-host="g55W4j9+3OOqmYMvHyys7Q.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 Bytes: 2105 Lines: 31 On 10/13/2024 16:46, Martin Brown wrote: >On 10/05/2024 04:18, Wanderer wrote: >> Anyone in Europe seeing Auroras? >> >> https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast# >Yes. On Friday night the aurora was very strong and it ran from horizon >to horizon N-S where I was up near Alnwick. Brighter than the milky way >and visible in a still slightly light sky with a thin crescent moon. >I couldn't see any colour in it but it was in moving ribbons. Alas my >best camera for taking deep sky time exposures was out of battery :( >https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2024/may/11/northern-lights-dazzle-the-uk-and->europe-in-pictures >I haven't seen one that bright for over two decades. I missed two >similar ones last month and the month before visible from where I live. >Luck of the draw whether it is clear or cloudy. I have never seen one >that reached so far south and remained bright all the way. >A few friends have good photos of it. It was seen from the entire UK and >down as far as parts of Germany (and Hokkaido in Japan). >-- >Martin Brown That's similar to what I saw in Maine. I almost didn't see it. It was like a hazy night with the moon out. I went out to try figure out where the moon was and realized the whole sky was glowing. Studying the haze I could make out streamers and pulsing shapes but no colors. It was white like moonlight and bright.