Aurora visible from North East

[YorkshireBear]

Just for any of you out there who are interested the Aurora Borealis is currently being sighted as far south as Whitley Bay. Happy hunting!

ALSO SCOTLAND... sorry just a small lapse

 

[Ivo]

What is the furthest south that the Aurora Borealis can be viewed from, even allowing for unusually high activity? I would love to see it one day, but I think the furthest south I've ever heard of is roughly York

 

[YorkshireBear]

What is the furthest south that the Aurora Borealis can be viewed from, even allowing for unusually high activity? I would love to see it one day, but I think the furthest south I've ever heard of is roughly York

Oh Ivo surely you have heard of edinburgh and glasgow!!!!!!!!!!

Furthest south i am aware of is gibralta/scicily.

 

[imagination]

Anyone know what time this would be at its brightest?

Can't see anything at the moment, even though the sky is dark and clear.

 

[Nym]

Whenever the sun decides it will kick out the most stuff...

 

[Class172]

Whenever the sun decides it will kick out the most stuff...

Which should be next year, when it reaches its solar maximum. I would love to see the Aurora Borealis, but I will wait for it to come to me.

 

[Nym]

I'm tempted to get a flight up to Kefalik when I can afford it

 

[YorkshireBear]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/beerisforwinners/6744167113/in/photostream
NOT MY PHOTO.
But stunning none the less.

 

[R Sytch]

Have a look in here...
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/

 

[DaveNewcastle]

I got quite a surprise a few few Januarys ago (perhaps 2003) when driving a car northwards from Carlisle and finding my entire field of vision disturbed by a shimmering veil of dimly coloured curtains of light.
I hadn't seen such an intense display of the Aurora as far south as Annan / Lockerbie previously.

 

[Pete2210]

Tonight should be good for Aurora watching weather permitting, the Earth was hit by a CME at 15.10 today.

We had a very good Aurora in the London area back in 1988 when it was reported as being visible in Northern France.

Pete Williams

 

[Bungle73]

The Times reports it might be seen as far south as London, which last happened in 1939.

 

[Ivo]

In the event that this is accurate, when is best to look?

 

[DaveNewcastle]

In the event that this is accurate, when is best to look?

Between sunset and sunrise when there's no cloud cover.

Its not as if you need to be concerned with extra-terrestrial reference points, as the aurora is a terrestrial feature of the northern atmosphere.

But urban lighting destroys the ability to detect the curtain-like features of the display. You'd have to be out of town, wherever that may be.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

The Times reports it might be seen as far south as London, which last happened in 1939.

I saw one from the Epsom area from 21.35BST ( 20.35GMT ) on 12th August 1988 until just after midnight ( ie early on 13th August ) at which point observer fatigue set in - possibly the event mentioned by Pete2210?
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Its not as if you need to be concerned with extra-terrestrial reference points, as the aurora is a terrestrial feature of the northern atmosphere.

It does, however, help to look to the NW rather than N as the magnetic pole is somewhat furhter over than the geographic pole.
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This website may help: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/index.html

 

[Bungle73]

I saw one from the Epsom area from 21.35BST ( 20.35GMT ) on 12th August 1988 until just after midnight ( ie early on 13th August ) at which point observer fatigue set in - possibly the event mentioned by Pete2210?

Apparently, it's what Brendan Owens, astronomer at the Royal Observatory said. Last "recorded" sightings that is.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I'm pretty sure I reported my 1988 sighting to the British Astronomical Association and it was noted in the Journal, so Greenwich should certainly have been aware!

 

[Pete2210]

I saw one from the Epsom area from 21.35BST ( 20.35GMT ) on 12th August 1988 until just after midnight ( ie early on 13th August ) at which point observer fatigue set in - possibly the event mentioned by Pete2210?
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It does, however, help to look to the NW rather than N as the magnetic pole is somewhat furhter over than the geographic pole.
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This website may help: http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/index.html

Yes Peter that is the one I mean, my wife was a bit disgruntled at being dragged from her bed to see it, but agreed it was worthwhile.

The last Aurora I saw was from Fishguard about 1998? or so, it was an early one, about 7.30 pm and started with a band of light on the NW horizon in the direction of Dublin, from that it built to a full blown Aurora, very good

Pete