24 April, 2012

[NØTKG]

I went outside and could only see a few stars off to the north, with Polaris just barely visible. At first I thought it was cloud cover, then as my eyes adjusted I could tell that the entire northern sky was Aurora. So far it is just a diffuse green glow with no features, but it is relatively bright. My location, near Minot, ND, USA.

[Carol L]

I was out with the 16" dob tonight and the Aurora was bright enough to read by. 

It began as a diffuse glow and eventually separated into upper and lower bands.
Then the bands vanished and 'needles' of structure were detected.
They weren't wide enough to be considered 'beams', but they were definitely there... lots of them.
 
After the structure faded, i could definitely see a green color.. absolutely lovely.
I could kick myself for not bringing the camera. 

Carol Lakomiak
Tomahawk WI

[The Killer Rabbit]

I was in Chicago, didnt see a thing lol.

Carol, I moved up to Pembine since last solar max to your neck of the woods to be closer to fishing, camping, and aurora.
Camping pretty much consists of sleeping in the yard and watching the stars at night. My house is pretty much in the woods.

Geoeffective coronal holes are for the most part easy to photograph now at my new latitude....im lovin it!

Brian

[Carol L]

Hi Brian, sounds like you love WI as much as i do - it's like being on an eternal vacation.
Sorry you didn't get to see the display.
Hopefully we'll get as much from this solar max as we did from the last one.
What a ride that was!!