I feel I need to report my experience from Denmark, Jutland.<p>It started with white broad streaks, which most of all looked like fog, but then perhaps after 10 minutes or so, we saw colors of red, purple and green begin to emerge from the these streaks. Most astoundingly it all seemed to emanate from a fluctuating point in the middle of the sky. If you looked closely at this point you could see it fall into itself, morphing and shifting continuously.<p>We went around the house and we could purple streaks at the top and orange to red patches at the bottom of the sky.<p>Colors observed:
Whitish blue,
Green,
Purple,
Red,
and Orange<p>An absolutely a beautiful experience.
Here are some phone pics from my home village in Germany: <a href="https://www.nowhereinparticular.xyz/polarlichter.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nowhereinparticular.xyz/polarlichter.html</a><p>This was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. My brother, who is a hobby astronomer, called me and sent me outside. Initially, I saw only a faint red glow in the northeast of the sky, but after a few minutes, my eyes adapted and I could see how it slowly moved and changed its form over time. I stayed outside for maybe 15 minutes and then went back inside. An hour later, I went outside again and almost the whole sky was shining in all different colors and forms, from patches to clouds to pillars that seemed to support the heavens, ever chaning. Incredible.
Wow! Check out the view from the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland! <a href="https://www.jungfrau.ch/en-gb/live/webcams/#webcam-jungfraujoch-top-of-europe" rel="nofollow">https://www.jungfrau.ch/en-gb/live/webcams/#webcam-jungfrauj...</a>
For those coming here during the day, they have a page with the best images of tonight: <a href="https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/bestof/" rel="nofollow">https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/bestof/</a>
I just came home, went up the mountains. Absolutely crazy what I was able to see. I live somewhere mid to north Germany. Super stoked to go further up north based on what I saw in the sky. I have to say the images don't even nearly do justice to what I saw tonight, it was absolutely amazing. I spent some 6 hours up there. Just poor phone images, sorry.<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/lPI9EXc" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/lPI9EXc</a>
If you want the best possible view with the naked eye, give them a chance to adapt to the dark properly. The human eye is about 100,000 more sensitive after an hour in total darkness. A smartphone screen or car headlight is enough to undo it.
The earth is the greatest spaceship we’ll ever know. Complete magic is this phenomenon.<p>Feels like one is engulfed in the Aurora when it’s strong. First time I experienced it the arctic circle actually scared me.
I live in rural very northern England. It’s incredible, clear with the naked eye. iPhone 14 camera with 3s exposure is out of this world (pun intended, but misleading)
Wow, I just went outside (South West of France) to plug the car for charging before going to bed.<p>I noticed unusual, faint light patterns in the night sky, like long spikes coming from the North. It was not the Milky Way, we can see every clear night. Color was mostly gray slightly pink. Wondered what was that ... My first aurora !!!
The NOAA forecast suggests it'll be nearly as powerful as the March 13th storm in '89 that took out the Quebec grid: <a href="https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental" rel="nofollow">https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-exper...</a>
Most of Europe == Not covered by light polution. (and specific areas)<p>(it's orange outside and it's sodium vapor related)<p>edit: kind of whish I was at my parent's place. It's a lot less poluted but no go here; nw europe densly populated, we also have the artificial sunrise here 24/7 by means of greenhouses.
This also appears to be happening in the southern hemisphere as well and growing brighter. My layman understanding is auroras are the result of coronal mass ejections interacting with Earth's atmosphere, but I don't recall these incidents being large enough to be so visible in the northern and southern hemispheres simultaneously.
I'm in the southern hemisphere (near Antarctica) and the sight is absolutely insane, almost terrifying... its a bright red aurora. Never seen anything like it.
This shows a scientific view of it:<p><a href="https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/anim=off/overlay=aurora/orthographic=-1.93,42.46,404" rel="nofollow">https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/an...</a>
Many of the photos here show it in such vivid colour, but for me the really breathtaking part was the scale and movement of the aurora.<p>Last night (here in Quebec) the entire sky was filled with colour. It's not as intense in person, but the slow shimmer of it is otherworldly. I was up on my roof for almost an hour, watching the blobs undulate in the sky. I think it made a bigger impression on me than the recent eclipse.
i have the unique experience of being in a plane over the Bering sea a few hours ago. <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin/status/1789273537179426922" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin/status/1789273537179426922</a><p>i was going nuts in my seat and seemed to be the only one on the plane aware of what was going on.
Any chance it'll be there tomorrow too?<p>Seems beautiful in the French alps, wonder if it's worth trying to go there tomorrow<p><a href="https://www.skaping.com/chamrousse/la-croix?archives=MTcxNTM3OTYwMA-YQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.skaping.com/chamrousse/la-croix?archives=MTcxNTM...</a>
Went about an hour north of Vancouver BC Canada to get away from bit city lights and watch.<p>It was probably not the brightest small strands I've ever seen - if my memories of Northern Saskatchewan as a kid are still accurate - but I don't think I've seen the whole sky light up to such an extent.<p>here's a photo:
<a href="https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fu6py9oy2puzc1.jpeg" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fu...</a><p>magenta and green colours were clearly visible in person during the intense periods, although obviously not as bright or intense as long exposure photos. Solidly visible bands for at least the two hours I stayed out.
First time I've ever seen the aurora from West London - I always assumed the light polution would make it impossible to see, but here's a picture I took of it over the Thames: <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkJHandley/status/1789070802459000892" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/MarkJHandley/status/1789070802459000892</a>
I saw a full aurora in Melbourne, Australia.<p>Colours, ribbons, arcs and beams all visible to the naked eye and on camera.<p>Normally with aurouras, you only get to see a faint greyish glow on the horizon and it only looks good on camera. Not this time.
Well visible in central Switzerland: <a href="https://feed.yellow.camera/rigi-scheidegg" rel="nofollow">https://feed.yellow.camera/rigi-scheidegg</a>
<a href="https://feed.yellow.camera/rigi-rotstock" rel="nofollow">https://feed.yellow.camera/rigi-rotstock</a>
More discussions on related NOAA posts:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315394">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315394</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40318356">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40318356</a>
Here are some visual tools NASA provides: <a href="https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/" rel="nofollow">https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/</a>
Where do people get their forecasts? I often use this one, but it's not very usable outside Norway. Great if you click into each forecast (click the image) and get more details. Like how it actually covers the sky in that location. So that I can use that to plan (doesn't matter if it's strong if it's in a direction I can't see it) <a href="https://site.uit.no/spaceweather/data-and-products/aurora/oslo/#nogo" rel="nofollow">https://site.uit.no/spaceweather/data-and-products/aurora/os...</a><p>Used to use a NOAA page, but they changed it a while ago and don't find it as useful anymore. <a href="https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-experimental" rel="nofollow">https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/aurora-dashboard-exper...</a><p>Some weather services also have a kp index, but I often feel those can't be trusted, and don't tell the whole story. And aurora is quite hit or miss, so need more updated data.<p>I have an app on my phone (AuroraNotifier) that chimes when there's hope. And then I use these others to plan a bit better. But some more interactive map akin to the uit.no one but where I can place myself around would be nice.<p>Edit: someone posted this below, looks nice, have some other kinds of data <a href="https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html</a><p>Edit2: <a href="https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/anim=off/overlay=aurora/orthographic=12.20,58.57,822/loc=10.764,60.969" rel="nofollow">https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/an...</a>
This is so cool. I just made a Timelapse from the images of the linked camera:
<a href="https://youtu.be/pgexFsYzRYE" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/pgexFsYzRYE</a>
I didn't see anything with the naked eye (UK), probably too much light pollution, but I took a photo of the sky with my phone and you could definitely see it.
Checking in from Detroit here… the aurora is actually super visible on the iPhone camera. Much more than from the naked eye (although they are slightly visible… I have a lot of light pollution around me though.)<p>I’m curious what causes it to come in better in my iPhones sensors… different wavelengths perhaps?
iPhone 14 from my back yard in (extremely light polluted) Liverpool, England.<p><a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/KPUMabcnNG6E5gZ77" rel="nofollow">https://photos.app.goo.gl/KPUMabcnNG6E5gZ77</a>
Even more live views at the main page: <a href="https://www.foto-webcam.eu/" rel="nofollow">https://www.foto-webcam.eu/</a>
The sky has been lighting up in North America too. I’ve heard reports of the aurora from New England and, here in the Pacific Northwest, it’s currently visible by naked eye and striking in long exposure shots. I always thought I would have to visit Alaska or Scandinavia to see the northern lights, never thought I could catch a glimpse so close to home.
Scotland, 56 degrees north. I expected to see the aurora near the northern horizon, but it was visible east, west and even south, from 11:00pm (2200hrs UTC) until 12:15am (2315UTC). Easily visible to the naked eye. Took good photos on 1 second exposures, ISO 2500.
You can see the effects of the CME on the HF amateur radio bands.<p>This live map (<a href="https://g7vrd.co.uk/wspr/IO81" rel="nofollow">https://g7vrd.co.uk/wspr/IO81</a>) would usually be full of worldwide contacts being reported by WSPR (Weak Signal Propagation Reporter), but the solar flares have closed down the bands quite considerably.<p>The map is centred on Maidenhead grid square IO81, but you can change it to wherever you are: <a href="https://www.whatsmylocator.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">https://www.whatsmylocator.co.uk/</a><p>This will also cause problems with aircraft, as they use HF when they're out of sight of land.
We went out to Simpson Springs in Utah to see the borealis. There was a bit of a flare up. Like others have said it looked like streaky fog to the naked eye. My camera picked up something a little better. My wife's camera was a Samsung Galaxy Ultra S21 and she picked up gold it looks so good on her camera but anyway here's my shot.<p><a href="https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/jytxIMvelaGs" rel="nofollow">https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/jytxIMvelaGs</a><p>You can see the lights of dugway Utah in the background
Anyone know of sources/sites that track the magnitude of geomagnetic storms as a time series? (interested to gauge the magnitude of recent ones relative to those of the past, similarly to how we may do so for earthquakes)
I heard the aurora would be visible in Netherland, so living in Amsterdam I just went outside to check. Nothing. Maybe some very vague lighter bands in some places? Cities have too much light for this sort of thing.
I'm on a trip visiting my friend in Central Finland and yesterday we had a 96% warning for aurora chance. Unfortunately, for us, the sky was quite cloudy and we didn't get a chance to see the lights. When we were heading back home I saw a faint line of blueish-purple in the sky, which seemed unusual, and told my friends "hey what if this is the aurora". I checked the photos from the other people that claimed they saw the lights and it checked out with what I've seen.
This aurora was really powerful! I could see it with a naked eye from a town in central Poland, despite cloudy weather and light pollution. Feels great to finally see it in person
Nice livestream from a bloke on YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTxvAQYKGPI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTxvAQYKGPI</a>
Can't see it from where I am in North Carolina as it's sadly overcast, but I'm sseeing photos from friends as far south as Georgia and Alabama of vivid pink auroras.
From Ushuaia, Argentina close to Patagonia: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/argentina/comments/1cp89bf/aurora_austral_en_ushuaia/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/argentina/comments/1cp89bf/aurora_a...</a>
I missed it last night, but I heard it will repeat it tonight. I'm going to try to see it. It's unheard of at this latitute, currently I'm on an island in Tuscany, center of Italy.<p>Edit: I found online that the last one visible from Italy was in 2003, so not unheard of but still rare.
Super visible with the naked eye an hour and a half east of Denver. At some points the whole sky turned colors from green/pink/blue.<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/8TJpI5i" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/8TJpI5i</a><p>Some photos if anyone is interested
Stockholm Sweden at ~4am <a href="https://x.com/aimkilian/status/1789188389108933097?s=46&t=Md_MMdhrp1VxA2uNsYZNCA" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/aimkilian/status/1789188389108933097?s=46&t=Md...</a>
I live in a relatively big city where light pollution is obviously a huge thing. But the aurora was so strong that even we were able to make it out, although not as intensively beautiful as on all those webcam feeds
Just saw it in downtown Chicago (by the lake). Faint, but visible with naked eye. Easier to capture with my pixel 8 than with my (handheld) DSLR, even with a fast lens...kicking myself for not grabbing my tripod
Is anyone else experiencing slow Internet during this? I'm not sure if it's related or confirmation bias, but it's been crawling since the storm hit.
It’s currently at Kp8.
<a href="https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en.html</a>
Went out into a meadow near town last night. Couldn't see a thing. Light pollution was probably too bad. But it was really funny to see a bunch of people milling about in the meadow at almost midnight. Many of them idiots walking around with phone torches destroying their and everyone else's night vision.<p>The shocking thing to me, though, is the number of satellites in the sky. This was a shit sky, way beyond what people would call "milky". Hardly any stars visible. But everywhere you looked there were satellites. I remember it being rare to see one only 15 years ago. Almost couldn't believe you could really see them back then. But now... Everywhere. I had no idea how congested it was getting up there. Wish I could leave Earth. But also glad we can't because we'd fuck that up too.
Feel free to go outside in headphones and put this[0] on.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=086uhG3Rf3U" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=086uhG3Rf3U</a>
Now that it's over, the timestamp should be in the link:<p><a href="https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/lucknerhaus/2024/05/10/2240" rel="nofollow">https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/lucknerhaus/2024/05/10/224...</a>
It's dawn now, did anyone happen to screenshot that page during the night?<p>The mosaic of pink/purple skies was rather beautiful, but I'm afraid preserving it slipped my mind.
Sorry all, had the following comment in the wrong thread yesterday:<p>My unindicted co-conspirator is a much bigger fan of song contests than I am, but sometimes you just have to wonder at the production values: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyUsNgu4GAI&t=550s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyUsNgu4GAI&t=550s</a>
This is related to the cycles of Earth’s core<p>Our planet’s magnetic field is “entangled” with the Sun’s activity<p>This unusual flare means unusual activity for our magnetic field, hence for the core as well<p>It would be cool to have some realtime comparison/visualization of Earths magnetic core activity, vs solar flares