Solar and Aurora Activity Chat

[Polar Maritime]

 

[Polar Maritime]

X3 Class Flare in progress.

[jonboy]

 Polar Maritime And just about as earth facing as possible. it will be interesting to see what impacts it has.

[weatherobsuk]

[jonboy]

 toggerob not from the sunspot that is bristling with energy for x class flares but departing sunspot 3575 close call today!!

[Fen Wolf]

Minor activity showing over the uk currently, dunno if this will pick up later?  Not that you can see it with all the rain lately

[weatherobsuk]

Sunspot AR3590 is beginning to get spicy with 2 X-Class bursts overnight although no CME has yet been observed, this sunspot will be the one to watch over the next few days as it turns to face Earth head-on and with more potential for stronger X-Class bursts.

[Polar Maritime]

 toggerob fingers crossed as we could have some clear nights over the weekend.

[weatherobsuk]

Major X-Class 6.37 flare has just erupted from AR3590 

[Weather-history]

 

Taken today

[weatherobsuk]

Sunspot group AR3590 as seen from the top of Mam Tor (Peak District) this morning, there's currently a 30% chance of a significant CME at this time as it faces Earth directly with the sunspot now half the size of the one that caused the Carrington Event back in 1859.

 

[The Tall Weatherman]

We have liftoff ! Hopefully this holds a few more hours

Edited March 3 by The Tall Weatherman

[Wold Topper]

 The Tall Weatherman just had a message from a pal whom is heading up on to the Wolds for a potential viewing

[Wold Topper]

Too cloudy up by RAF Staxton Wold, think tonight will be a bust, shame...

[The Tall Weatherman]

I was a bit annoyed the aurora wasn’t a bit stronger so I had to edit the aurora pillars a lot to bring out the colour. Taken around 8PM.

Edited March 3 by The Tall Weatherman

[Fen Wolf]

I got excited when i saw that then it dropped back loads.  What we need is a push to over a thousand and at midnight on a very dark and clear night and then you have yourself a potentially good show

[weatherobsuk]

It got as low as -724nt at 8:25pm, fortunately I had a early heads-up that something was imminent and was already set-up at the upper end of the Goyt Valley just after sunset. A short-but-sweet display with some Aurora hues still lingering on the distant horizon some 2 hours afterwards.

[Weather-history]

Typical, clear for a good portion of the night but during that key period, a bank of stratocumulus largely obscures the skies to my north

[weatherobsuk]

Post-processed last night's images via Lightroom to bring a bit more colour & depth out of the snaps, there's some cracking shots on the UK-AURORA-HUNTERS facebook page that put mine on the Nikon Z7 to shame  the one down-side to living in the UK is that although we get Aurora's they aren't too frequent enough to perfect capturing them on camera.

[Southern Storm]

These were from last nights Aurora display

Unfortunately it was too cloudy to get a proper view, but any display that is visible from southern England is a win if you ask me. 

[Sprites]

If the cloud breaks, and the moon can be beaten there's quite bit of potential in the next few hours.

It's a year since the widespread Auroras last March. 

Edited March 23 by Sprites

[Southern Storm]

Good luck Sprites, hope you manage to see something, It's clear here but I can't bring myself to go out as it's pretty chilly out there, and with an almost full moon to contend with, I don't fancy my chances of capturing anything from the south coast, Monday could be a great opportunity though, only problem is it's looking like it will be cloudy. 

So Many flares recorded today and one was X class, Keep them camera batteries changed. Sprites

This is interesting though 

Edited March 23 by Southern Storm

[Mapantz]

I've been getting a lot of notifications of coronal holes, flares etc. Not sure I remember my app being this busy!

[Sprites]

 Mapantz  It's that time of year, March is often the most active month for CMEs Auroras. 

Edited March 23 by Sprites

[Polar Maritime]

Get the cameras out, A kp 7 tonight