As title says...this evening 'might' provide an Aurora showing similar to that experienced last week according to boffins at Lancaster University. There's no guarantee nor indication of extent if it does show but worth a look.
been following info on AR3664 sunspot which is causing a lot of the auroras, its crazy at 17x the size of earth, a few are saying under right conditions it could cause a Carrington event although the odds are against it it could be closest we've come for a long time
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https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast
Is suggesting that at the moment it may be happening but we can't see it until it gets dark .
Yes. For about half the country at least -- there's some high intensity patches in the auroral oval, which covers about Manchester and north of that.
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/auroral-activity.html#aurora-map-1
Little chance of seeing it in the south east even if it was to reach far south... there will be heavy cloud cover if not a thunderstorm for many of us.
Good article here, really well-written and illustrated:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c163j8551ygo
Yes, good article - and the potential of more in a couple of weeks it seems.
Unfortunately living next to one of the worlds largest petroleum refineries and between two major airports causes a little too much light pollution so i haven't got to see any of it :-(
ANDY00 said
Unfortunately living next to one of the worlds largest petroleum refineries and between two major airports causes a little too much light pollution so i haven't got to see any of it :-(
:-( Though judging by the article I posted at stupid o'clock last night, you possibly have enough time to consider where you could get yourself to, away from those places, if the chance looked really good again. Is there somewhere half an hour away or less?
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Unfocussed Mike said
ANDY00 said
Unfortunately living next to one of the worlds largest petroleum refineries and between two major airports causes a little too much light pollution so i haven't got to see any of it :-(
:-( Though judging by the article I posted at stupid o'clock last night, you possibly have enough time to consider where you could get yourself to, away from those places, if the chance looked really good again. Is there somewhere half an hour away or less?
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unfortunately due to health I'm not allowed to drive anymore :-( and the petroleum refinery lights everything up, plus im slap in middle of Glasgow and Edinburgh airport to add to it lol yea dont think i will get to capture this one just one of those things :-) unless of course there a mass ejection then i will get it cos it will kill the power :-P
ANDY00 said
Unfocussed Mike said
ANDY00 said
Unfortunately living next to one of the worlds largest petroleum refineries and between two major airports causes a little too much light pollution so i haven't got to see any of it :-(
:-( Though judging by the article I posted at stupid o'clock last night, you possibly have enough time to consider where you could get yourself to, away from those places, if the chance looked really good again. Is there somewhere half an hour away or less?
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unfortunately due to health I'm not allowed to drive anymore :-( and the petroleum refinery lights everything up, plus im slap in middle of Glasgow and Edinburgh airport to add to it lol yea dont think i will get to capture this one just one of those things :-) unless of course there a mass ejection then i will get it cos it will kill the power :-P
Yeah. And on the plus side, you'll have a front row seat to the "planes falling out of the sky into refineries" real life disaster movie. And that's not nothing is it ;-) (sorry)
Unfocussed Mike said
ANDY00 said
Unfocussed Mike said
ANDY00 said
Unfortunately living next to one of the worlds largest petroleum refineries and between two major airports causes a little too much light pollution so i haven't got to see any of it :-(
:-( Though judging by the article I posted at stupid o'clock last night, you possibly have enough time to consider where you could get yourself to, away from those places, if the chance looked really good again. Is there somewhere half an hour away or less?
Edited by Unfocussed Mike
unfortunately due to health I'm not allowed to drive anymore :-( and the petroleum refinery lights everything up, plus im slap in middle of Glasgow and Edinburgh airport to add to it lol yea dont think i will get to capture this one just one of those things :-) unless of course there a mass ejection then i will get it cos it will kill the power :-PYeah. And on the plus side, you'll have a front row seat to the "planes falling out of the sky into refineries" real life disaster movie. And that's not nothing is it ;-) (sorry)
Well i very much hope that's not the way it would go in real life......
ANDY00 said
Unfocussed Mike said
ANDY00 said
Unfocussed Mike said
ANDY00 said
Unfortunately living next to one of the worlds largest petroleum refineries and between two major airports causes a little too much light pollution so i haven't got to see any of it :-(
:-( Though judging by the article I posted at stupid o'clock last night, you possibly have enough time to consider where you could get yourself to, away from those places, if the chance looked really good again. Is there somewhere half an hour away or less?
Edited by Unfocussed Mike
unfortunately due to health I'm not allowed to drive anymore :-( and the petroleum refinery lights everything up, plus im slap in middle of Glasgow and Edinburgh airport to add to it lol yea dont think i will get to capture this one just one of those things :-) unless of course there a mass ejection then i will get it cos it will kill the power :-PYeah. And on the plus side, you'll have a front row seat to the "planes falling out of the sky into refineries" real life disaster movie. And that's not nothing is it ;-) (sorry)
Well i very much hope that's not the way it would go in real life......
I'm teasing. It'll probably just be the one plane. ;-)
(I have a penchant for really bad films)
Unfocussed Mike said
ANDY00 said
Unfocussed Mike said
ANDY00 said
Unfocussed Mike said
ANDY00 said
Unfortunately living next to one of the worlds largest petroleum refineries and between two major airports causes a little too much light pollution so i haven't got to see any of it :-(
:-( Though judging by the article I posted at stupid o'clock last night, you possibly have enough time to consider where you could get yourself to, away from those places, if the chance looked really good again. Is there somewhere half an hour away or less?
Edited by Unfocussed Mike
unfortunately due to health I'm not allowed to drive anymore :-( and the petroleum refinery lights everything up, plus im slap in middle of Glasgow and Edinburgh airport to add to it lol yea dont think i will get to capture this one just one of those things :-) unless of course there a mass ejection then i will get it cos it will kill the power :-PYeah. And on the plus side, you'll have a front row seat to the "planes falling out of the sky into refineries" real life disaster movie. And that's not nothing is it ;-) (sorry)
Well i very much hope that's not the way it would go in real life......I'm teasing. It'll probably just be the one plane. ;-)
(I have a penchant for really bad films)
I actually really don’t know. As a young boy, we were forced to do simulations for the petroleum plant blowing up and made to hide under the desks as the air-raid sirens blew. Later, when we got to high school, we were told that it was totally pointless because if the plant exploded, there would be a crater stretching 150 miles between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Hiding under a desk would be like using a parachute in space—pointless, lol.
But i believe at least planes would not fall out the sky as they do have the ability to glide for sometime
Apparently there's another chance of seeing this in certain parts of UK 20/21st May. So this evening will hopefully be a clearer less cloud/mist view.