Aurora Borealis is very likely tonight.

[Globalti]

Set your alarm for midnight and hope for clear skies.

 

[Drago]

There's been a big solar thrusting thingy that's got the radio hams jolly excited.

 

[MontyVeda]

Celestial event = guaranteed cloud.

Hopefully Sod's Law will kick in and prove me wrong this time. But i won't hold my breath. I'd love to see the Aurora and it would really make this year my best so far for eye-ball astronomy which has given me the Perseids (average in the UK, excellent under the dark Appalachian skies), Andromeda, as clear as anything at 5am in Appalachia and a total eclipse.

 

[robjh]

I think the chances might be better if you happen to be in Stornoway than in Southampton. Good luck to those in more northerly climes, but I'm not getting too excited here.

 

[Hugh Manatee]

There's been a big solar thrusting thingy that's got the radio hams jolly excited.

We have been warned that high end GNSS (GPS) may well not be at its best this weekend. So if you have an RTK survey to do this weekend folks, I would be tempted to put it off.

 

[Tiger10]

There's been a big solar thrusting thingy that's got the radio hams jolly excited.

Is that an amateur radio technical term!!??!!

 

[Drago]

Yep, its a ham radio techno wotsit thingy.

 

[DRM]

I once heard some one calling CQ Aurora on 2 meters, with the drift on the voice I thought it was a poltergeist! made me jump big style as it wasn't expected

 

[Doseone]

For any Twitter users there's @aurorawatchuk

 

[Spinney]

For any Twitter users there's @aurorawatchuk

You can sign up for email alerts if you don't use twitter.
https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/

 

[graham56]

Bamburgh last year,

not taken by me though.

 

[growingvegetables]

Hmmph - poked my head out the door just now. Mebbe just worth ... an hour's ride to a pretty good "dark sky" corner not far from Leeds?

Some hope. P***ing with rain, and heavy cloud. There is ONE bleedin' break in the cloud ... with the moon shining full blast.

Ah well

 

[MontyVeda]

You can sign up for email alerts if you don't use twitter.
https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/

by the looks of that URL, they might even give me a knock

edit... their facebook page too

 

[MontyVeda]

semi clear here... if @User9609 can't see owt, i doubt i will.

 

[Hugh Manatee]

Bamburgh last year, View attachment 372471 not taken by me though.

That building looks slack jawed in amazement! Definitely on my bucket list.