Massive Solar Storm to hit us today.. Tin foil hats on !
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Well I spotted a near-miss over the Olympic stadium, so perhaps air traffic control is being affected. 
I was sitting on one of those stone plinths directly in front of the stadium, having cycled down the canal and up onto the Greenway.
One plane coming from the south 'tother climbing from the west. North bound slightly higher, at a guess, would say 100/150 feet than the eastbound but about two to three plane-lengths apart. Never for one minute thought there was danger of collision but, thought a tad close for comfort.
I was sitting on one of those stone plinths directly in front of the stadium, having cycled down the canal and up onto the Greenway.
One plane coming from the south 'tother climbing from the west. North bound slightly higher, at a guess, would say 100/150 feet than the eastbound but about two to three plane-lengths apart. Never for one minute thought there was danger of collision but, thought a tad close for comfort.
DRCAGE said:
Anyone know if these "northern lights" will be viewable from Cambridge?
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ViperDave said:
snorkel sucker said:
Chance of seeing the Northern Lights at lower altitudes apparently...
What sort of time is best to catch these; dusk or later on in the night?
They usually recommend local midnight but its more a case of if a storm is happening at your midnight you have the best chance of seeing something rather than there is a better chance of a storm at midnight if you see what i mean.What sort of time is best to catch these; dusk or later on in the night?
bottom line, is it needs to be dark, cloud free and away from light pollution at the same time as a storm, this one is happening now so not much use here at 2pm. keep any eye on the planetary K index halfway down the left column on http://www.spaceweather.com/ to see if the storm continues tonight. A value of 5 you may see something low in the northern sky in Scotland, it would need to be closer to 8 or 9 for the south, although dont rely on the website data!!!
Edited by ViperDave on Thursday 8th March 14:09
The IMF Polar angle is returning north again so looks like things are weakening at the moment, it had been firmly in the yellow earlier, the further south it points the greater the chances are that something is going on.
http://mms.rice.edu/realtime/justdials.html
doesn't mean things cant change rapidly though.
Just to get you in the mood, this is what they looked like at 35,000ft over northern Canada last month
http://mms.rice.edu/realtime/justdials.html
doesn't mean things cant change rapidly though.
Just to get you in the mood, this is what they looked like at 35,000ft over northern Canada last month
edit. Correction, it's only moderate
jmorgan said:
Just looking at space weather and saw it.
http://www.spaceweather.com/
Very useful site. I use a few others too so I can see new ones when they are released and how they progress along with the app for my phone letting me know within minutes of them hitting our detector.http://www.spaceweather.com/
Yeah, my sky looks like that except is all grey and there is wet stuff coming out of it...... so not really like that... 
Cracking pictures on there, only sometimes the links are a tad hard to find.
Another sun site
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
Has vids and stuff you can follow for the eye candy and more for the grey matter.
And this
http://www.solarmonitor.org/
Oh, and this
http://jhelioviewer.org/
Cracking pictures on there, only sometimes the links are a tad hard to find.
Another sun site
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/
Has vids and stuff you can follow for the eye candy and more for the grey matter.
And this
http://www.solarmonitor.org/
Oh, and this
http://jhelioviewer.org/
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