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My webcam managed to capture the aurora this morning after some fog had cleared and before the sky got too light.
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Awesome photos, was walking home from uni at 5am, really gutted I missed it!
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wow! Nice pictures, if i did that with my webcam it would be horrible...wish i could see aurora once in my life!
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Nice to see it made stuff Steven, did they contact you via the forum?
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awesome...
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03Stormchaser wrote:Nice to see it made stuff Steven, did they contact you via the forum?
I sent the photo to the Press this morning and Paul phoned me after that to chat about it.
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Whats the likely hood of this happening again?
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03Stormchaser wrote:Whats the likely hood of this happening again?
The aurora has been seen fairly far south in the US so it might be possible to see something tonight - cloud permitting. This was from an impact that wasn't even directly heading for Earth. The huge sunspot that caused it is still active so a flare in the next day or so could be even better.
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See your shot's also on Spaceweather.com Steven, along with a few taken from Queenstown.
(And on their latest update)

Great Stuff! _b
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Awesome!! By the way, here is the Aurora forecast from the Geophysical Institute of the Univ. of Alaska:
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/5
Forecast: Auroral activity will be active. Weather permitting, active auroral displays will be visible overhead from Macquarie Island, Australia, the Japanese antarctic Syowa Station and Halley Bay, Antarctica, and visible low on the southern horizon from the French Iles Kerguelen station.
Here's a photo of the Aurora I took on early Thursday morning from Ã…, Lofoten Islands, northern Norway.

And that was a 'quiet' night. In Oslo at the moment and itching to get back up!! >_<
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Worth a look:

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Foggy wrote:Here's a photo of the Aurora I took on early Thursday morning from Ã…, Lofoten Islands, northern Norway.

And that was a 'quiet' night. In Oslo at the moment and itching to get back up!! >_<
Beautiful shot - I'm thinking of heading to Alaska in March 2013 which is close to the peak of the cycle.

For reference, the webcam shot was f3.5, 30 seconds, ISO800 at 20mm.
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And another:

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Skywatcher wrote:I'm thinking of heading to Alaska in March 2013 which is close to the peak of the cycle.
Wow, that would likely be amazing. Are you considering staying a little longer and heading down to the US for Tornado season as well?
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tgsnoopy wrote:
Skywatcher wrote:I'm thinking of heading to Alaska in March 2013 which is close to the peak of the cycle.
Wow, that would likely be amazing. Are you considering staying a little longer and heading down to the US for Tornado season as well?
The aurora is often best close to the equinoxes and nights aren't getting too short at higher latitudes. Probably too early to make tornado chasing worth the cost...

Thought it best to split the posts out of Pictures of the Day.
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A day or two late, but nice animated forecast from NOAA of that latest CME...

Uploaded by NOAAESRL on Sep 26, 2011

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center -- the nation's official source of warnings and alerts about space weather and its impacts on Earth -- today [26th] issued a warning for a strong, G3 geomagnetic storm on Earth resulting from a significant explosion from the sun's corona Saturday morning. G-scale solar storms range from G1 (minor) to G5 (extreme). Today's warning updated a watch issued on Saturday.

This animation shows a forecast from WSA-Enlil, an advanced forecast model used in NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center. The sun is yellow at left; Earth is green at right. This forecast was produced Saturday, and projects the coronal mass ejection - in red, black and white - impacting Earth today.
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it amazes me how fast that ISS orbits.....seems to be a very low orbit altitude?
and its a pole to pole orbit?
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^ I think it's a time-lapse video made up of several static images from here (uploaded on Sep 20th).
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And another: http://vimeo.com/29568236

Jeff Hampton of TV3 called me this morning and so the photo might be shown on the news tonight...
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Skywatcher wrote:...

Jeff Hampton of TV3 called me this morning and so the photo might be shown on the news tonight...
It was. =D>
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Skywatcher wrote:And another: http://vimeo.com/29568236
Stunning Video!

Noridic Countries are so lucky to get given a lightshow like this.....
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