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19 years 7 months ago #12018 by Conor
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AURORA ALERT: A coronal mass ejection (CME) is heading toward Earth. It was hurled into space on May 13th (1650 UT) by an M8-class explosion near sunspot 759. Sky watchers should be alert for auroras when the cloud arrives, probably after nightfall on Saturday, May 14th.



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This i am getting really excited about!!! This CME is very big and could display some amazing Auroras. The cloud is expected to hit some time after nightfall tonight and it couldnt be better for me!. Dont take your eye of the sky tonight as this could really be an event not to be missed!!!! Im sure there will be some great photos 2moro

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19 years 7 months ago #12028 by dave_lillis
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GREAT!
have the canon battery charged and ready for action 8)
There are some small whispy clouds here, hopefully, they'll go away as the evening comes.

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19 years 7 months ago #12086 by ei5fk
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Radio aurora again this morning, less intense, just looking at the Kiruna, its dropping, radio hams are reporting another event just started, Magnetic field BZ component has gone minus :-)
spider.irf.se/mag/

Latest Alert: May 15 1009 UTC ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 7
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19 years 7 months ago #12089 by jhonan
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The charts are looking red!

www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/index.html

Please, please, please, please stay away cl*uds.... just for a few hours...

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19 years 7 months ago #12093 by Astro1996
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anybody having any luck?

You stole my stars springfield!!

No one wrote any poems about stupid orange barf glow...

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19 years 6 months ago #12462 by ei5fk
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Good aurora since 2pm today May 30th
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