Major Aurora Event!!!!

[Dbl]

I would be remiss not to mention to any interested Aurora watchers and photographers about the major event that is happening now through likely Saturday night. If you have have watched the news you may have heard of the major solar disruption which is making its way to us! My phone has been going crazy with alerts on this event.

Normally the Aurora can be seen with a kp of around 4 to 5. The latest forecast for tomorrow evening is predicted to hit 7.5kp to 8kp. I personally haven't seen a prediction this high in years! I will be heading down to Dallas tomorrow but back tomorrow evening. I am going to try and head out of Minneapolis and head somewhere north to try and catch this one! There is a very cool map called the Dark Sky Map HERE that shows you light pollution in Minnesota. Gives a person an idea of where to go to get the darkest skies.

The cloud forecast for tomorrow night after 9 or 10 in the pm looks good! I hope to make it out and hope we see some others with some great shots from this event. Good luck to all who just try and view it and those trying to photograph it!

[eyeguy 54]

just read about it. wife gone friday night so I gotta get out somewhere and play with the camera. sure hope it's a good show.

[LMITOUT]

From this evening:

[LMITOUT]

Got warning a few hours ago through work that a K=7 or greater has been issued through 2:00am.

Hope the lights stay on, and I'm not talking about the northern lights.

[eyeguy 54]

out till 1 and zippo here.

[Dbl]

Same with me, out till just before one and nothing showed So much for the forecast! Three hours of driving for nada! I talked to a friend up by Park Rapids, nothing there either.

This is one shot from the evening. Two shooting stars going into the Big Dipper! I was shooting fairly high ISO and 20sec exposure so it looks like a sunset shot...believe me it was dark!

[eyeguy 54]

crisp! dandy

[eyeguy 54]

sounds like Maine had nice viewing. I was wondering looking at the map ig the good stuff would be way east.

[delcecchi]

I looked here to see what to expect...

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation/

It showed nothing special the last couple days.

[eyeguy 54]

very quiet the last couple days.