Major solar storm underway (KP-8/G4), northern lights will be visible in loads of places tonight - Polidicks

Lancashire in the UK just spiked in to the "likely" zone. Lot of light pollution here, though.

Right above my head. The bright white dot is Jupiter. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/H1yvKLd.jpg[/IMG] It was intense. Seems to have slowed down a bit?

Yeah I saw it too like 30 mins ago in Helsinki, never seen northern lights in here before.

[QUOTE=Meladath;47343420]You really can understand why people used to worship the stars/sky and stuff. Thousands of years ago the night sky must have looked absolutely stunning.[/QUOTE] As you should! That green color is your god bombarding your planet with lethal radiation. :eng101:

Welp, should've stayed in Northern Norway right now. Hopefully my friends up there will grab some good photos.

Just saw them in northern Germany. Never expected to see them here.

BTW, [url]http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/[/url] NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center is what people are using for those maps.

Touched up the picture with some PS. [t]http://i.imgur.com/Wmcetvo.jpg[/t]

Man, I'll never get to see any aurora unless if I move to Canada or something. Stupid Kansas. [QUOTE=Swebonny;47343481]Right above my head. The bright white dot is Jupiter. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/H1yvKLd.jpg[/IMG] It was intense. Seems to have slowed down a bit?[/QUOTE] Oh my god, there's a giant mouse pointer in the sky! Everyone run for your lives, it's going to kill us all!

Awh, Nova Scotia isn't gonna get anything

Here's a couple of short timelapses I made [URL="http://files.1337upload.net/aurora1-cd5539.webm"]1[/URL] (5 sec exposures) [URL="http://files.1337upload.net/aurora2-833cb8.webm"]2[/URL] (2 sec) [URL="http://files.1337upload.net/aurora3-0402ef.webm"]3[/URL] (2 sec)

[QUOTE=Hattiwatti;47343847]Here's a couple of short timelapses I made [URL="http://files.1337upload.net/aurora1-cd5539.webm"]1[/URL] (5 sec exposures) [URL="http://files.1337upload.net/aurora2-833cb8.webm"]2[/URL] (2 sec) [URL="http://files.1337upload.net/aurora3-0402ef.webm"]3[/URL] (2 sec)[/QUOTE] That's amazing. I was about to do some timelapse shooting but it vanished. Really wish I knew about this earlier.

northern germany, saw them the first time in my life

Aww there was nothing on the sky for me :(

I wish, just for once, you could see them in Florida...

Sadly I didn't see them as a sharp "curtain" but rather as a glowing behind the clouds at the horizon. [url=https://flic.kr/p/qHWqaG][img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7587/16227156114_9cfa7b2b5d_c.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/qHWqaG]IMG_7812.jpg[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/59868994@N03/]Terranigmus[/url], on Flickr

They were great here above finland. I couldnt get a good picture though, because i live in the city and i dont have a good camera.

Better here [url=https://flic.kr/p/rmCt8n][img]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7610/16642364407_203de8961a_c.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/rmCt8n]IMG_7804.jpg[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/people/59868994@N03/]Terranigmus[/url], on Flickr [editline]18th March 2015[/editline] Still people are reporting they saw them above my 200k city just 2 hours ago which is crazy, sadly I was inside.

All I can see of them is a very faint blue glow, could just be the town though.

Shame I can't see it this far south here in TN. Course if the aurora went this far south, our magnetic field was probably fucked or a highly damaging solar storm.

Totally worth freezing my butt off to get these two and many other pictures. shit was mesmerizing! [t]http://i.imgur.com/ixb9bkv.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/cNTVUZb.jpg[/t] Sweden, Järna

Of course I'm on the wrong side of the planet Where I am we'll get maybe one or two really good auroras a year, but the rest of the time it's just a sort of diffused green glow that looks like it might be moving but you can't be sure.

This doesn't just apply to the Nothern lights, the southern lights are visible as far north as Perth! Perth is closer to the equator than LA is as well. Not my picture, but facing towards the city from a Suburb about 50km north [t]https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10407521_851969458177601_42187323181610293_n.jpg?oh=1e5da17cd99a5b386236741168d9b312&oe=55B40B5F&__gda__=1437862067_f89bc522f33ca0fe06e1337acb763b27[/t]

[QUOTE=Bredirish123;47342959]Man, as adverse the effects possibly may be, I so wish it would have engulfed more of North America and Europe so others could see. If I weren't so far South I'd drive to see them. I love this kind of stuff.[/QUOTE] Indeedy. I live an hour or so east of Nashville, TN. No chance in hell of me seeing these.

Nothing in Toronto.

im so jealous of everyone right now

My shortwave is totally dead.

I wonder if any clandestine agents that rely on numbers stations are being cockblocked by the stormy space weather. I wonder what spy agencies do when things like this happen. Reschedule, I guess.

[QUOTE=pentium;47345338]My shortwave is totally dead.[/QUOTE] But I bet its great for sporadic-E skywave propagation.

that's one hell of a week, there is a solar eclipse on friday too.