Two large solar flares in past 24 hrs - possible geomagnetic unrest on the way again.

[Paul M]

It seems that eastern Canada got a good look the the overnight peek.

The auroral oval is again intensifying as it head back to us.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast

 

[DaveL59]

be nice if the wall-to-wall cloud would shift then... ah well 😞 

[Paul M]

Just now, DaveL59 said:

be nice if the wall-to-wall cloud would shift then... ah well 😞 

The forecast here is good until mid evening. So I fully expect to be clouded out again.

Some hope for the allsky camera oop north:

 

[Leo S]

It was just nice to see the CME from the most powerful flare of the solar cycle doing something. Hopefully @Shimrod caught it.

Not sure that tonight's impact will produce much of a show, but it is picking up as I type.

[Shimrod]

1 hour ago, Leo S said:

It was just nice to see the CME from the most powerful flare of the solar cycle doing something. Hopefully @Shimrod caught it.

Not sure that tonight's impact will produce much of a show, but it is picking up as I type.

Yes! We had quite a good night after a slow start. Not the best I've seen but still a good display, with plenty of naked eye colour.

It was supposed to have dropped back for tonight but looks like we might have another early evening display for our last forecast clear night.

[Paul M]

The Cumbrian ASC  is showing some faint activity just now.

[Paul M]

[City9Town0]

Rain in my bit of Suffolk.

[Leo S]

Here we go again!

X-2 flare! Still in progress.

Edit: looks like it came from AR-3842 which was not facing Earth.

Edited October 7 by Leo S

[Paul M]

[Leo S]

2 minutes ago, Paul M said:

STEVE?

[Paul M]

4 minutes ago, Leo S said:

STEVE?

No, I'm Paul !!

Seriously, I think STEVE's tend to be attached to the main area of activity and more flare like and more radial to the center of the auroaral oval?

It doesn't look ray-like enough to me. Possibly just a corona in the making?

Edited October 7 by Paul M

[Paul M]

[Clarkey]

I've just been out and there is some bright aurora to the NE. 

[mcrowle]

I caught some here in Cornwall, too, red to the eye, but unfortunately cloud closed in very quickly.  This was shortly after 10pm.

Regards, Mike.

[scotty1]

I think there has been some STEVE  and SAR arcs tonight, going by the Aurora app. 

Pishing down here though. Picked up Aurora early am the cloud cleared as the Aurora faded away.

Edited October 7 by scotty1

[Steve Ward]

Another X-Class flare from the departing AR just now with a very impressive CME , probably too far round to impact Earth however.

Nicely caught on the LASCO images along with the comet just coming into view as it nears its closest approach to the Sun.

 

 

 

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/lasco-coronagraph

[MalcolmP]

3:30am -  Anyone awake ?  with a view to the north,

 

[Paul M]

Here is the full dusk to dawn activity as seen from my Allsky cam in n. central Cumbria.

 

 

You might notice a glitch in the matrix shortly before dawn. I isolated that frame below. Looks like the Mothership of a Ravening Bug Bladder Beast invasion. Nothing on the news this morning...

[mcrowle]

I captured the image below with a 24mm lens shortly before cloud closed in after 10pm.

I didn’t catch the early morning peak in aurora activity, but there was torrential rain by the time I went to bed after 1am, and winding back the cloud radar shows pretty solid overcast at the relevant time.

Regards, Mike.

[MalcolmP]

16 hours ago, Leo S said:

STEVE?

"he"  has appeared on the Beeb:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c4g0j7zn813o

 

Edited October 8 by MalcolmP

[Paul M]

So that was a STEVE on my camera. Watching the timelapse (above) there is, what looks like a steak of jet stream cirrus moving parallel to the overhead red feature, "blowing" L to R which is east to west.

Maybe part of it.

Kinda wowser! 

Edited October 8 by Paul M

[MalcolmP]

6 hours ago, Paul M said:

Ravening Bug Bladder Beast invasion. Nothing on the news this morning...

or just "Son of STEVE"
If I had thought of that earlier it might have made it to the news! 

Edited October 8 by MalcolmP

[Shimrod]

So we managed four consecutive days of aurora sightings from arrival in Iceland on Friday! Settled for just observing last night although I set my camera to do a time lapse overnight. My poor travel laptop is getting old though and struggling to render the images so that will have to wait until I get home.

Now got wall to wall cloud which  may not clear until Friday which may coincide with a bit more solar activity.

 

[Leo S]

2 hours ago, Shimrod said:

So we managed four consecutive days of aurora sightings from arrival in Iceland on Friday! Settled for just observing last night although I set my camera to do a time lapse overnight. My poor travel laptop is getting old though and struggling to render the images so that will have to wait until I get home.

Now got wall to wall cloud which  may not clear until Friday which may coincide with a bit more solar activity.

 

Not bad going! And NOAA has another load predicted to arrive on Friday