Maby another Aurora tonight

AURORA ALERT: Sunspot 798 exploded twice yesterday, August 22nd, and hurled a pair of coronal mass ejections (CMEs: #1, #2) toward Earth. Geomagnetic storms are possible when the clouds arrive on August 23rd and 24th. Sky watchers, particularly those in Alaska and Canada, should be alert for auroras

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A solar wind stream flowing from the indicated coronal hole could reach Earth on August 24th or more likely the 25th. Image credit: SOHO Extreme UV Telescope

Conor,
why the heck do you always do this when the weather is crap?!?! Your timing is as bad as the weather!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Seanie.

well somebody has to alert the people if no onelse is going to do it, auroras can be seen though clouds u know, as martin and i have seen

I took a couple of basic digital pics of the sun last Sat. using my new Thousand Oaks Type 2+ filter.
There were 3 sunspots on view, a pair located together ~ one third way across the sun's face. I believe it might have been this one that I saw.

Am, still have to look at (the probably east job) of downloading them here. :oops:

The BBC reckon there is a small chance the sky might clear before dawn after this storm passes so if anyone sets there alarm clock for that time then we may have a chance of clear sections in the sky but of course one never knows with these things.

Keep an eye out anyhow

Just received the following

AuroraWatch Alert, 10:01 UT 24 Aug 2005:
High local activity, possible start of geomagnetic storm.

www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/