Anybody seeing an Aurora tonight?

[BiggJawn]

Or is there some weird-assed weather trick going on? I'm at 41.42 degrees North.

What I have is a blue-ish arc in the sky, from NE to NW. Been there since about 7PM.

[stepnw1f]

1. Where Are You?

[BiggJawn]

3. 60 miles south of Michigan City, Indiana.

I don't think it's Chicago's lights. not orange and too far to the NE.

[Avalux]

2. I wish

might make my week. Too far south for it though. Enjoy it and take some pics! :hi:

[CO Liberal]

4. We THOUGHT We Saw Something!!!!

We were just out for a ride, and were east of Pueblo, heading back on US 50. Sandie was looking out the passenger window toward Colorado Springs. It's normally orangish when you look that way, but it was definitely blue-green.

What part of the country are you in??

[havocmom]

5. Auroral activity VERY high right now

Good site: http://sec.noaa.gov/pmap/index.html

Good chance for auroras for the next few evenings. And just my luck, it is very cloudy over my town.

[BiggJawn]

6. It *IS* Aurora!

Lookit this!


Auroral activity is at 10 right now, solar Flux is at 126 or thereboughts, and we'e had several space-wedgies in the past 24 hours.

I THOUGHT there might be something coming when I lost auntie Beeb on 15.190 this morning. One second, the S-meter's about 1/2 scale, all of a sudden, I'm looking out the window to see who cut my antenna...

[havocmom]

7. Here is another good info & update source, BiggJawn

They send you email notices when interesting stuff is happening:

Space Weather News for Nov. 7, 2004
http://spaceweather.com

Big sunspot 696 unleashed an X-class solar flare on Sunday, Nov. 7th, and
probably hurled another coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. Solar
wind conditions are favorable for a geomagnetic storm now (late Nov. 7th)
and may become even more so when the CME arrives. Sky watchers: be alert
for auroras on Nov. 7th, 8th and 9th. The best time to look is usually
around local midnight.

Visit http://spaceweather.com for more information and updates

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. Oh how neat.....

Can't see anything like that in Chicago because of all the damn lights.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. It's right overhead.

Bluish, looks like a fan. I'm at about 45 degrees north (Minneapolis).

[BiggJawn]

9. That's it.

Not right overhead, but you described the shape and colour.

I think I'll go see if I can get digi pix of it.

[ben_thayer]

10. Real nice display!

I'm in north Oakland county Mi- not far from Flint. It's clear, cold and this is one of the best Auroras I've ever seen this far south. Been watching it now and then for the last couple hours.
SWEEET!

[CO Liberal]

12. We Just Went Out On Our Deck

We're about 100 miles south of Denver. It's cloudy tonight, but looking north we could see bands across the sky that changed from blue-green to blue and back to blue-green again. Normally looking that way, all we see is the orange glow of Colorado Springs.

We'll have to check later, to see if anything changes.

[benburch]

11. Faint activity here in Elgin, IL.

Sort of a "curtain" display right at the edge of visible in the city glare.

[Bjornsdotter]

13. We can see it....

...five miles south of Wisconsin border in Illinois. It looks like a blue fan with streaks radiating out of it.

Very cool!

Cheers,
Kim :toast:

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

15. It's here...

...and I am just south of Sioux Falls, SD. It looks like a big sheet with streaks in it here.

[benburch]

16. Excellent display now, Elgin, IL

Moving curtains, no discernible color.

[pagerbear]

17. This kind of Aurora?

[prairie populist]

18. Saw them in southwest Nebraska

near the Kansas state line earlier tonight.

Red and green swatches one-third of the way up on the northern horizon with bands of white streaking up through the color.

One big tunnel shape of white directly overhead stretched from the horizon on the east toward the northwest, connecting with the green patch.

Outstanding show for this far south.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. SW PA and Western MD, here...

We were driving the long way back from a weekend in Cleveland, and I looked up to see bright red in the sky! This is too cooooool! :D

[whirlygigspin]

20. it's a sign from God

that he's ready to burn up the atmosphere above the red states.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

21. Or a sign from God

that the world really is greater than the shitheads we allow to hold office...

[BiggJawn]

22. That'd be cool...

Because then all the air from over the elitist blus-state shitheads would rush in to fill the void.

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. Saw them this morning on the way to school bus.

:hi: