GEOMAGNETIC STORM UNDERWAY: A moderately strong (Kp=6) geomagnetic storm is underway on Nov. 13/14 as Earth passes through the wake of a CME that swept past our planet yesterday. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras. Ole C. Salomonsen sends this picture of the display over Tromsø, Norway:
"Tonight was a spectacular night," he says. "This for sure was the strongest auroras so far this season. The magnetograms at the University of Tromsø went bananas! Tromsø is a city of about 70,000, so it has a lot of light pollution; even so, the auroras were clearly visible standing in the middle of the city."
"Once a year the Arctic cathedral in Tromsø is lit in blue to put focus on diabetes. This was the first night it was lit blue this year, and man was I lucky to get one of the strongest outbreaks I have ever seen just above it. This was just a mindblowing visual and astronomical experience. I came home with almost 500GB of photos."
"Once a year the Arctic cathedral in Tromsø is lit in blue to put focus on diabetes. This was the first night it was lit blue this year, and man was I lucky to get one of the strongest outbreaks I have ever seen just above it. This was just a mindblowing visual and astronomical experience. I came home with almost 500GB of photos."
SOLAR ECLIPSE: This morning, thousands of people gathered gathered along the beaches of Queensland, Australia, near Cairns and Port Douglas, to witness a total eclipse of the sun. Clouds threatened to spoil the show, but a last-minute parting revealed what everyone had come to see:
Photo credits: Dr. Tony Phillips and Camilla SDO
In some places, such as Four Mile Beach outside of Port Douglas, the corona was visible for only a few seconds before clouds closed in again, but a few seconds was enough. "It was thrilling," says teenage onlooker Amelia Koske-Phillips. "I can't wait to see another one." An eclipse-chaser is born!
Browse the photo gallery for more images: Realtime Eclipse Photo Gallery
Browse the photo gallery for more images: Realtime Eclipse Photo Gallery
| 14 November 2012 Solar wind speed: 409.1 km/sec density: 4.3 protons/cm3 explanation | more data Updated: Today at 1346 UT X-ray Solar Flares 6-hr max: B7 0746 UT Nov14 24-hr: M1 0404 UT Nov14 explanation | more data Updated: Today at: 1300 UT www.spaceweather.com |
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