Author Topic: Northern Lights/Aurora borealis tonight  (Read 626 times)

Offline ghi

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Northern Lights/Aurora borealis tonight
« on: December 20, 2015, 07:50:28 PM »
According to this sites should be visible below 40 degrees north latitude, from Oregon to NY,  to  UK ; I'm moving out to check; :banana: :x

http://www.aurora-service.org/aurora-forecast/

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast
http://www.solarham.net/
 http://www.spaceweather.com/
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index

right now Kp index is 6.7 ;, map shows the lowest visible latitude vs  Kp;

« Last Edit: December 20, 2015, 08:15:57 PM by ghi »

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Re: Northern Lights/Aurora borealis tonight
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2015, 08:28:54 PM »
And its cloudy here, of course  :mad:

but I can hear auroral flutter on 6 meters cw pointing north
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Offline ghi

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Re: Northern Lights/Aurora borealis tonight
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2015, 09:00:26 PM »
Same here mostly cloudy, I could see the Moon for a short period; most of the continent is overcast with this mild  El Nino weather from Pacific ; http://ge.ssec.wisc.edu/modis-today/

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Re: Northern Lights/Aurora borealis tonight
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2015, 09:00:52 PM »
 I miss these..live too far south now.
 Maybe I can fire-up my giant Tesla generator in the garage.....

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Re: Northern Lights/Aurora borealis tonight
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2015, 02:44:42 PM »
I miss these..live too far south now.
 Maybe I can fire-up my giant Tesla generator in the garage.....

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Re: Northern Lights/Aurora borealis tonight
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2015, 03:22:40 PM »
they burn well , but some have funny plates; :lol


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