Skies are clear in Boston, I’ll be taking a look!A chance of northern lights visible here (New England) tonight after midnight is predicted.
I don't know, maybe rotation of the earth relative to the sun when the storm hits? The magnetic north pole is currently closer to California than Alabama so that can't be it.As far south as Alabama and Northern California. I'm confused because that doesn't really match up. Northern Alabama seems to match up to Southern California. What am I missing?
NOAA Aurora TrackerI don't know, maybe rotation of the earth relative to the sun when the storm hits? The magnetic north pole is currently closer to California than Alabama so that can't be it.
It's all about distance from the geomagnetic north pole. Which is somewhere near here:As far south as Alabama and Northern California. I'm confused because that doesn't really match up. Northern Alabama seems to match up to Southern California. What am I missing?
That's still far closer to California than Alabama.It's all about distance from the geomagnetic north pole. Which is somewhere near here:
But it moves.
UK?
Will be fun to see the "hardiness" of Starlink connections.So, I did ask our resident astrophysicist what are the chances of gaining super powers if we can get one of those billionaire rockets and fly into LEO or whatever, and get blasted by this coronal mass erection.
...he said the super power of "multiorganic cancer"
It's worth a shot?
Ironically in very LEO they should be better protected than a lot of the geosync sats. There's a reason we're getting notifications than GPS might be out for 'days'. The void is a cold, uncaring place.Will be fun to see the "hardiness" of Starlink connections.
Nice. Does it look like that naked eye or is that with phone enhancements?
Where are you at?I have a Motorola where you flick the wrist to gesture open camera and got this. But saw with the naked eye first.
Also saw green in the other direction.
I'm in KY btw
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KY see edit, Southern central KY about 25 miles from TN border.Where are you at?
Nice, that's the furthest south I have seen someone talk about seeing them so far and that's right outside the edge of the current NOAA 30 minute forecast. Though I'm around 29.6 latitude so super unlikely I'll get a chance, but still watching the 30 minute NOAA forecasts anyways and will take a trip to somewhere with a dark north sky about 15 miles away if I start seeing that forecast drop into Oklahoma (as aurora that are overhead up to 620 miles away can be visible)KY see edit, Southern central KY about 25 miles from TN border.
It was actually before what is supposed to be our peak, which IIRC is 11pm -2am, central time.Nice, that's the furthest south I have seen someone talk about seeing them so far and that's right outside the edge of the current NOAA 30 minute forecast. Though I'm around 29.6 latitude so super unlikely I'll get a chance, but still watching the 30 minute NOAA forecasts anyways and will take a trip to somewhere with a dark north sky about 15 miles away if I start seeing that forecast drop into Oklahoma (as aurora that are overhead up to 620 miles away can be visible)
I was thinking the same thing, i.e. Alabama is considerably south of Northern California. I'm in the Bay Area. A fair chance it can be seen, but they stress to get away from the metropolitan areas. Too much bother for me, drive 50+ miles in the middle of the night in hopes of seeing shimmering green in the sky. When I heard that I chuckled: I'm total green blind, it so happens.As far south as Alabama and Northern California. I'm confused because that doesn't really match up. Northern Alabama seems to match up to Southern California. What am I missing?
"Aurora may be seen as low as Florida to southern Texas and southern California"
It's the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation, imo.I was thinking the same thing, i.e. Alabama is considerably south of Northern California. I'm in the Bay Area. A fair chance it can be seen, but they stress to get away from the metropolitan areas. Too much bother for me, drive 50+ miles in the middle of the night in hopes of seeing shimmering green in the sky. When I heard that I chuckled: I'm total green blind, it so happens.
I think its because geo-magnetic north is by Greenland.I was thinking the same thing, i.e. Alabama is considerably south of Northern California. I'm in the Bay Area. A fair chance it can be seen, but they stress to get away from the metropolitan areas. Too much bother for me, drive 50+ miles in the middle of the night in hopes of seeing shimmering green in the sky. When I heard that I chuckled: I'm total green blind, it so happens.
It might be pretty cool, I don't know. By faaaaaar the greatest celestial, cosmic observation experience I have ever had, I was laying on my roof here in Berkeley, CA, a meteor shower maybe 3 decades ago. Meteors of every brightness, color, speed, direction, coming from seemingly any part of the sky. It took my breath away. I was spotting maybe 2-3 per minute, IIRC, but I wasn't keeping score.I'll not sleep too much tonight. I'll probably run a timer on my phone and nap in the recliner.