Aurora

[charmedkelly]

Hi Guys I Was Told About The Northern Lights I Was Hoping To Catch The,

What Are The Odds Of Me Seeing Them,

I Live In Southern England.

Kelly

Thanks

[Tddun]

I'm wondering the same.. and I have clear skies.. somehow I doubt we will see any though.

[peeceeTal2M]

You've virtually no chance at all i'm afraid, the Aurora is a vary rare event at our lattitudes allthough i do remember seeing a red Aurora back in the late 80's early 90's here in South Wales. It was really spooky seeing what appeared to be a red curtain waving in the sky accompanied by a low hissing sound( not sure if i really heard anything or if it was just my imagination lol )

[jgs001]

Agreed... virtually none... Looking at the charts online (spaceweather I think it was), the Kp levels need to get up to 10 to get Aurora over southern England, and the current one has been getting up to 5/6... based on the Aurora_Alerts twitter feed.

[LukeSkywatcher]

Agreed... virtually none... Looking at the charts online (spaceweather I think it was), the Kp levels need to get up to 10 to get Aurora over southern England, and the current one has been getting up to 5/6... based on the Aurora_Alerts twitter feed.

I was looking at the NOAA website. It was ALL geek to me but i finally managed to work it all out (Kp levels) at my location (53N) to discover that it has to be a 10 to see them from here. I worked it out that the Kp level here is 7.

It was a good learning experience none the less