Aurora Watch Current due to the X1.9 flare that went off early Monday morning Australia time.
Glendale App reports the strongest ever substorm they have ever recorded hit Earth this morning 9am Eastern Australian time, sadly during daylight hours for us. Europeans got a roaring show, as are people in North America now. There may or may not be some action still running as darkness falls across Australia. It is cloudy in New Zealand, but they’ve probably seen too many auroras already… 🙂
See also SpaceWeatherLive and the Lake Superior live web cam. with some beautiful action in the last few hours.
From Melbourne:
https://x.com/AGretlich80048/status/2013587123677638762
It’s a wonderful reminder for warmists and similiar that the Earth and Earth system are not static but subject to constant variations. Many such variations like aurorae or warmth (such as the Minoan, Egyptian, Roman and Medieval warm periods) are beautiful or comfortable, others like extinction-level meteorites or ice ages or other cooling, not so much.
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We are going to see sudden formation of cloud and movement in tectonic plates that result in large earthquakes and volcanic activity.
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Then it is not due to CO2!
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And a reminder that not all aurorae are just pleasing.
If there was again a geomagnetic storm like the Carrington Event of 1859, the economic damage would be immense, maybe even worse than “renewables”.
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Incidentally, that second picture showing the view from Melbournistan is not, I believe, what you see with the naked eye, but a sensitive digital camera or long exposure on such a camera.
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We have photos taken with late model Samsung phone from near Mudgee. Nothing with naked eye, butfairly bright purple glow in photo.
It will be interesting to see if there is anything tonight.
And it is mid summer. I always thought auroras are a winter thing.
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Last night’s aurora was like looking into a green hearth fire from close up. The flickering flames and flashes were just as quick as a fire’s. The waves, arcing across say five degrees of sky in a tenth of a second at such a distance, must have been hitting 1000km/s.
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Where did you see it from?
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NZ, far south.
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That can be a bit cold for my liking but a brilliant spot for seeing the Aurora. Possibly a once in a lifetime experience to see one as good as that.
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Some photos from last nights amazing aurora @ Gippsland Victoria Au. An hour earlier would have been better..sigh*
Very windy so the trees and foliage are blurred, as well as the fast moving clouds, using a
!0 second exposure with f 3.5 24mm sigma lens and Sony A7RII.
Uploaded to IMGUR photo sharing platform
https://imgur.com/iJn30e2
https://imgur.com/hxvbi5f
https://imgur.com/pGT5UnA
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Went to St Andrews beach at Rye last night/early this morning. Indeed, from this vantage point, green glow clearly visible to naked eye from around 2200hrs. Around 2300hrs a lot of white arcs visible over about 75 to 90 of arc from 25 east of south celestial pole around to the west. Movement and sheets of varying light followed by pulsing, all visible to naked eye. Tasmania must have had a better show because from 0000hrs to about 0100hrs lots of vertical lines and pulses of light and flashes of light all along the visible horizon. Was blocked by a persistent cloud band along the low horizon. Best Ive seen.
Colours ranged from red, blue, green and white. All visible to the eye. Phone camera easily picked up the colours and showed the pulsing much more pronounced than naked eye.
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For the astronomically impaired among us, what are we seeing or photographing?
Is it the movement of particles, some sort of interaction between radiation and the earth’s magnetic field?
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You’ve got the right idea. Charged particles arrive from the sun 1 to 3 days after a solar flare and are attracted to the poles by the Earth’s magnetic field. Particles excite atoms in the upper atmosphere, with glowing colors depending on what kind of atom’s are affected. See this explanation:
https://www.space.com/aurora-colors-explained#section-aurora-color-faqs-answered-by-an-expert
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SpaceWeather.com has an excellent gallery of aurora photos that people have posted of this event.
https://spaceweathergallery2.com/index.php?title=aurora
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Marquette is beautiful in her own right. French but maybe Vikings were there before.
Lovely that you chose Marquette Jo. Just a few miles around include the Pictured Rocks National Lake shore: https://www.nps.gov/piro/index.htm
You all are looking at a fresh water sea.
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