@gaysis @sundogplanets @lunareclipse

You are probably looking at the map for the current activity

@gaysis @sundogplanets @lunareclipse

Like I shared in the original post, the geomagnetic activity (measured with the Kp index) is expected to pick up about 8 hours from now. A Kp value of 6 or above is considered a significant event and could be visible in middle Europe.

See time table (times in UTC):

@gaysis @sundogplanets @lunareclipse

Here's an easier to see graphic: spaceweatherlive.com/en/aurora…

That website is also handy to check if you want to know the current activity level

spaceweatherlive.com/en/aurora…

Aurora forecast

Below you'll find the expected global geomagnetic conditions (Kp) and those for the middle and high latitudes (K-indices). These values indicate the expected geomagnetic activity for any given 3-hour period for the next three days.

^{SpaceWeatherLive.com}

To be fair, I've heard space weather forecasting described as like weather forecasting but with only 3 or 4 thermometers scattered around a continent to make predictions from. It's hard!

(But I'm really hoping for a good show over the next few days! Thanks for posting about it, hopefully lots of people will get outside and look up!)

For the curious, here's the WSA-Enlil model of the two CMEs that happened recently.

Taken from here (with some extra effort on my part because their animation is just a bunch of jpegs lol): swpc.noaa.gov/products/wsa-enl…

#aurora #solar #astronomy

I keep thinking about this because it's a good demonstration of why I should probably stay in security research.

Oh, I can't download this animation?

*Right click > Inspect*
*Looks at HTML, reverse engineers it to find the JSON file that tells the animation javascript what images to load*
*Plug the image dir URL from the JSON file into Firefox, downloads the entire directory of jpegs*
*Drops image sequence into Blender, renders video*

Like, no normal person would know how to do that lol