Solar Fireworks

[hazeii]

I was just thinking...with the massive solar flares going on at the moment, it would be uber-cool to get an aurora as a backdrop for the fireworks tonight. Watch the skies!

On a related note, voting is currently taking place for the 10 Best Images from Soho - stunning stuff, I like this one best. The sun as you've never seen it before...

Comments

[ex_pipistre]

ooh, now i am tempted to go...
hmmnm, reckon i could make it back to brighton for nightshade?

[hazeii]

Looking at the current space weather, although the flare was huge Earth is only going to get the edge of it...so I reckon the chances of an aurora are quite low (much lower than the earlier flare, which was smaller but came right at us).

On the other hand...the experience of being in a field with thousands of others, under a massive aurora with fireworks everywhere...worth taking a chance on? The Lewes display is on quite early, I think, so you should have no problem making it back in time for Nightshade.

I'll watch the skies from my back garden or the top of the Downs, at least until my taxi arrives - see you later!

[liz_lowlife]

I saw an amazing aurora display up on the Yorkshire Moors on the way to Whitby.
We had to stop and gawp for ages as I kept driving into the wrong lane, straining to see it.

It was completely awesome...

[hazeii]

Lucky, lucky, you! Wish I'd seen it...we were clouded out down here (and I don't know if it reached this far south anyway).

[lucifein]

it must have done. they were visable in belgium jfyi

luci xxx

[hazeii]

Wow, it must have been truely brilliant up north then! Hope you got a good view over there.

Bit of a bummer, even if we get more now the moon's pretty high and it'll wash them out.

[dsblw]

Awwww Handsome don't do that to me, get in after a hard days work come across your LJ and guess what....seeing the bit about the 10 Best Images from Soho and you can imagine the *sun* was the last thing on my mind. Now I have to go make some tea and try not to think of ThighHigh Boots.

[hazeii]

Ok, I'll try and not think of you thigh-booted and on the back of the Harley then!

Actually, I wasn't thinking that way, but now you've started me...

[lucifein]

...want help finishing?>:p hehehe just ignore me thanx!

Luci xxx

[hazeii]

LALALALALA...I have no idea what you're on about...LALALALALA...I can't hear you....LALALALALA...

[arealhighlander]

Oh aye, seen them last week up here, it lit up the sky.

It was a bit better than we normally get over Winter, usually only when its very cold we get the Northern Lights.

[hazeii]

Down here it feels as rare and exotic as snow does to a Kalahari bushman!

Maybe you could set up an aurora-cam over the wireless BB link...

They don`t like it up `em ( rockets that is )

[teatagg]

No aurora of course but even had the fuzzy wuzzies emerged to blanket the sky, as you said to me elsewhere, photography would have been challenging, as the exposure times to make the best of the fireworks and the aurora may have been quite different. One of those events where you need pratice, yet can`t practice for ...

Re: They don`t like it up `em ( rockets that is )

[hazeii]

Thinking about it, I guess you'd expose for the aurora and cross your fingers for the rest. Presumably for the aurora it's going to be several seconds.