Just a heads up.
It seems that there is a storm in progress at the moment which may increase our chance of seeing the aurora here in Scotland if the cloud goes away (which I doubt they will).
We may be lucky, its up to 5 on the scale at the Alaska Geophysical Institute.
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/3
Also keep an eye out here.....
http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/
http://www.spaceweather.com/
It seems that there is a storm in progress at the moment which may increase our chance of seeing the aurora here in Scotland if the cloud goes away (which I doubt they will).
We may be lucky, its up to 5 on the scale at the Alaska Geophysical Institute.
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/3
Also keep an eye out here.....
http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/
http://www.spaceweather.com/
RADIATION STORM IN PROGRESS: Solar protons accelerated by this morning's M9-class solar flare are streaming past Earth. On the NOAA scale of radiation storms, this one ranks S3, which means it could, e.g., cause isolated reboots of computers onboard Earth-orbiting satellites and interfere with polar radio communications. An example of satellite effects: The "snow" in this SOHO coronagraph movie is caused by protons hitting the observatory's onboard camera.
ALMOST-X FLARE AND CME (UPDATED): This morning, Jan. 23rd around 0359 UT, big sunspot 1402 erupted, producing a long-duration M9-class solar flare. The explosion's M9-ranking puts it on the threshold of being an X-flare, the most powerful kind. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the flare's extreme ultraviolet flash:
