#Geomagnetic storms

[theofficialastronomy101]

[sirmanmister]

Hey guys!! I’m pretty sure the majority of you are from mainland America so you don’t have the opportunity to see the northern lights, like, ever. Tonight you can!! Possibly. There’s a pretty severe geomagnetic storm going on and it’ll be hitting pretty darn south and a whole crap ton of people that have never seen northern lights, might be able to see them!!

I highly encourage everyone in the red/yellow lines to try to take a look tonight! I grew up with northern lights literally in my backyard and they’re just such a pleasant sight to see. According to the weather network it’ll go down as far as Alabama!

[elixir]

Geomagnetic storm(northern lights) captured on camera in Charlottesville, Virginia — 19.09.23 Photo by MrJackdog

[life-spire]

[suave-stephy]

The Northern Lights made quite the appearance last night! (Part 2)

[stone-cold-groove]

Solar prominences compared to size of Earth.

[mindfulwrath]

everyone in the northern hemisphere say "thank you" to Earth's magnetic field for protecting us from the big beautiful eldritch horror in the sky

[tryingonametaphor]

just saw the northern lights from south london

[swldx]

Geophysical Alert Message wwv

:Issued: 2024 Sep 17 0905 UTC

# Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center

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# Geophysical Alert Message

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Solar-terrestrial indices for 16 September follow.

Solar flux 170 and estimated planetary A-index 23.

The estimated planetary K-index at 0900 UTC on 17 September was 5.33.

Space weather for the past 24 hours has been severe.

Geomagnetic storms reaching the G4 level occurred.

Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be strong.

Geomagnetic storms reaching the G3 level are expected.

Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are likely.

[mataglap]

tonight's geomagnetic storm over Vancouver Harbor

[iknowseye]

AURORA BOREALIS HAS BEEN VISIBLE, 4 TIMES IN 3 MONTHS, ON THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA.

THIS IS A SNAPSHOT TAKEN ON MY IPHONE, LAST NIGHT, FROM THE PORCH.

NO FILTER OR EDIT, 08/27 AT 11p.

[theofficialastronomy101]

Absolutely amazing tonight

[spaceexp]

How strong was the MAY 2024 GEOMAGNETIC STORM compared to other historical events?

by u/Busy_Yesterday9455

[mckitterick]

Aurora deep into southern Midwest!

After Friday night's less-than-stellar experience hunting for a good spot to watch the aurora near LFK (short answer: there is none), tonight we decided to drive north a couple hours to get deeper into the aurora zone, and a little east to reach truly dark skies and skirt the clouds creeping across Kansas and Nebraska. Still pretty far south in the grand scheme of things (northern Missouri), but the darkest skies we've seen in a long time.

At first we parked as planned near a nature preserve in what is billed as a town (really just a handful of houses), but the northern view from there looked over a house that sits beside Loud Frog Land:

So when the sky began to dance (see this image), we drove a bit farther along hilly, winding country blacktop until finding a little gravel turn-around.

Just as we set out our folding chaise lounges, the sky really heated up, and for about 20 minutes it was amazing:  

This image and the top one (by @bugs-are-buddies using her Android S22 Ultra) are much better than from mine (Note9); thanks, darlin'.

My tripod-mounted DSLR was a bust, though I managed to snap the below Moon image once I got the telephoto lens working - had to turn the autofocus on and off again to manually focus at all (always the same story with tech), so we missed imaging the burst of aurora action with that machine.

(Left image is me fiddling with the camera by the light of the Moon and the aurora's fading glow.)

We stuck around for a while after the dramatically waving red-pink-green curtains diminished from their peak, hoping the huge Coronal Mass Ejection had more to offer, but things tapered off around Cassiopeia. And it was getting cold. So home we went.

The drive back was dinner of nut bars and pears, and introducing my sweetheart to some 1990s bangers on le Wedding Trip Jag's awesome speaker setup.

Two nights of dramatic aurorae - visible as far south as Kansas! Wow!

I hope you got a chance to catch some of the Sun's beautiful assault against Earth's skies. Ad Astra!

[life-spire]

[theninjamouse]

You know, not bad for not having a ton of night time photography experience

What a night, I can't believe that even without the clear colors visible to the naked eye, I could still see the sky change hues and dance with light. Absolutely incredible.

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