Sunday, October 18, 2015
Aurora Alert- Geomagnetic storm and Aurora reports NOW! (18 October 9:30 pm)
The Australian IPS has issued a geomagnetic alert for a G1 class storm NOW and
the NOAA site has a G1 storm happening as well. Currently Velocity: 409 km/sec Bz: -7.0 nT Density = 12.0 p/cc. K index is currently 5 overall and 6 in the Launceston magnetometer. These
conditions are promising. Unaided eye aurora have been reported from Launceston, Mt Wellington and Doges Ferry. In camera aurora have been reported from Tasmania
(Eagle Hawk Neck and other sites) and South Australia. Unaided eye conditions may persist if the geomagnetic conditions hold.Dark sky sites have the best chance of seeing anything, and always allow around 5 minutes for your eyes to become dark adapted.
As always look to the south for shifting red/green glows, beams have been reported consistently over the last few aurora and a large green "blob" has been seen.
Here is the near-real time satellite view of the clouds http://satview.bom.gov.au/
Cloud cover predictions can be found at SkippySky.
The all sky aurora camera in Northern Tasmania at Cressy may be helpful.
<http://www.ips.gov.au/Geophysical/4/2>
SUBJ: IPS GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE ALERT ISSUED AT 1040 UT ON 18 OCT 2015 BY IPS RADIO AND SPACE SERVICES FROM THE AUSTRALIAN SPACE FORECAST CENTRE
MINOR (G1 - MINOR) GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE IN PROGRESS (K OF 5 REACHED)
PRELIMINARY AUSTRALIAN REGION K INDICES FOR 18 10 15: 2335 -
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FOLLOW THE PROGRESS OF THIS EVENT ON THE IPS SPACE WEATHER STATUS PANEL, HTTP://WWW.IPS.GOV.AU > SPACE WEATHER
Further monitoring at
http://www.ips.gov.au
Labels: aurora
# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 9:26 pm 
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