Month: February 2014

Aurora Hunter eye on the sky

Quiet forecast tonight, tomorrow night, but active on Thursday night

The aurora forecast is quiet for the next couple nights, but expect active displays on Thursday night into Friday morning with the arrival of a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). See link for predicted arrival times. If you do not understand this, what this means is that there is not expected to be any aurora until…

Just how often IS aurora seen from the Fairbanks Alaska area?

Fairbanks, Alaska and the surrounding region of interior and northern Alaska, is underneath the aurora oval. The aurora oval is the constant halo around the earth’s geomagnetic poles, both north and south. The locations on earth underneath the aurora oval would be considered the best places to see the aurora from. This is because the…