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Last Hourly Kp Value: 0+
Last Hourly Kp's: 0+ 0o 0o 1- 0o 0o

Predicted Kp Value: 0+ at 1553 UTC.

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Now: A9.68@1446 UTC
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Updated: 02:00 UTC 7 February 2010:

No mid-latitude auroral activity is expected during the next 72 hours. Normal quiescent activity will be observed. High latitudes may observe periods of minor enhanced activity.

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Active Region 1045 is capable of producing isolated M-class flares. It is also capable of producing another isolated major solar flare.

Solar Spike Feb. 4, 2010

Submitted by: Dennis Anderson at 2010-02-05 19:59:01

Ice crystals in the air are responsible for this solar spike that was seen over the setting sun across Cook Inlet as viewed from near Homer, Alaska on the evening of February 4, 2010. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com

Mount St. Augustine and Fata Morganna

Submitted by: Dennis Anderson at 2010-02-05 19:59:01

A layer of warm air over cold air creats a type of lensing effect known as fata morganna. In this type of mirage distant features are seen to be streached vertically. The distant volcano island of Mount St. Augustine normally has gentle slopes when seen in profile but here they are distorted into impossible cliff faces as seen from near Homer, Alaska on January 31, 2010. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com

Moonset over the Aleutian Range

Submitted by: Dennis Anderson at 2010-02-05 19:59:01

After another bright moonlit night our moon, now just past full, heads towards the western horizon as seen from near Homer, Alaska on the morning of January 31, 2010. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com

January Sunset Over Kamishak Bay

Submitted by: Dennis Anderson at 2010-02-05 19:37:01

Even though the aurora has been somewhat elusive from Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, the skies have been full of color. This sunset was on January 30 and is taken from near Homer, Alaska looking SW toward Distant Mount Douglas /Four-Peaked Volcanos on the left and Mount St. Augustine Volcano on the right. Copyright (c) Dennis C. Anderson Night Trax Photography Contact at: auroradude@acsalaska.net or visit: www.auroradude.com

Pre-Groundhog Day Sunset

Submitted by: Beth Katz at 2010-02-03 22:34:01

Driving home past the fields of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, we observed this gorgeous sunset. My daughter took several pictures with my iPhone, so she gets the copyright. I'm sure there are groundhogs in those field. The local one supposedly didn't see his shadow on February 2nd, but we had over three inches of snow on February 2-3. Photo taken 5:30pm EST on 1 February, 2010. Copyright (c) 2010 Helen Hutchens, katz@cs.millersville.edu.

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2010-02-08 02:21:00 UTC: N45 W73.5 - Mooers, NY

2010-02-06 19:30:00 UTC: N36.75 W81 - sterling, VA

Around 6:00pm or so, we saw a small flash of light from the sky, while we were out in a field, x-country skiing. We wondered a little if it was lightning, but the sky was clear above us, slight clouds away from overhead, no thunder, major snowstorm had ended a couple of hours earlier??? Then about 7:30 pm, we saw another bright flash of light, as the first,scaring us and making us think of lightning. We looked up into the sky and saw 2-3 more bright light bursts, but with a bluish, (possibly with a bluish/green hue in 1), fairly bright colored large patch of light, but so quick we wondered at first if we'd really seen them, but 3 of us saw at least the last one,2 saw at least 2, 1 saw 3 colored flashes all towards the east from where we stood.Fairly large colored area, maybe 10-20% of the sky area???Was like nothing we've ever seen, other than pictures of the Northern Lights, which 2 of the three of us thought of after it ended. We kept looking up for another 15 minutes or so, but saw nothing. Then on way home, around 8:30pm, saw several more light flashes, but when looked up, did not see more.Please let us know if there were any sightings besides ours, and if you think they were the aurora borealis or what you think it might have been. Thank you.

2010-01-29 08:02:00 UTC: N75.75 W67.5 - Thule Greenland

Na, I'm not in Greenland But I have seen the aurora and who knows where I'll be next? Hi Beth. Hey Cary! Forum no workey. This might be the new forum for now. K Bye! -Dennis Anderson auroradude@acsalaska.net

2010-01-27 21:14:00 UTC: N39.9 W77.4 - Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

No, I am not seeing aurora at 40N during the day. It's been so long I must be delusional. I am reporting that the spacew forum is down and has been down since last Friday - 22 Jan 2010. I have also been unable to upload images to the image gallery. That worked Friday, but didn't yesterday. I haven't been able to get in touch with the site owners even though I'm a moderator in the forum and have tried multiple addresses at multiple email sites. I hope they're okay. I can't fix it. My contact info is bethkatz@comcast.net.

2010-01-22 19:30:00 UTC: N61.5 W153.75 - Palmer, Alaska

From Palmer, saw a band of greenish glowing Aurora to the North

2010-01-20 15:00:00 UTC: N59.83 W151.77 - Southern Kenai Peninsula

Waited all night for coronal stream to arrive and have effects. Finally around 6:00a.m. local time there was a pretty good show that came on rapidly with tall rays nearly overhead. Faint traces flickering and pulsing afterwards. Low arc in norh was starting to gain strength but twilight got the upper hand by about 8:00 a.m. Good to see the aurora machine is on the mend.

2010-01-11 05:30:00 UTC: N62.3917 W159.316 - Shageluk, Alaska USA

This is the FIRST auroral observation of the year for us here at our location. They weren't much but they definitely made a low-grade show. There was a pretty thick, solid bright arc at 25 degrees.

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