auroras now tonight! 11:20pm
The aurora is overhead in the Fairbanks area, Kp 2. Expect more tonight, and also tomorrow night. Edit: auroras being seen in the MatSu Valley at 11:40, Anchorage reporting low on the horizon at midnight.
auroras
Just a little aurora in the interior
Auroras reported tonight: Fairbanks, North Pole, Two Rivers, Fox, Delta, Talkeetna, Peters Creek, Tok, Elliot Hwy, from an airplane between Anchorage and Fairbanks. Photo taken with a point and shoot camera. Learn to use your “little” camera here.
Aurora is out! but, there are a lot of clouds
The aurora is overhead in the Fairbanks areas, but clouds are covering the entire sky. Kp 1. Time of this post 10:15pm
prepare for auroras tonight and tomorrow night
Prepare for auroras tonight in the interior of Alaska tonight, Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. Also, the forecast is calling for auroras on Wed night into Thursday morning for possibly the whole state.
CME arrival time 1932 UTC
Via http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ “The coronal mass ejection (CME), originally expected to arrive around 0800 UTC (3:00 a.m. EST) today, January 9, was observed at the ACE spacecraft just upstream of Earth at 1932 UTC (2:32 p.m. EST). It’s too early to see much with respect to the magnetic structure of this CME, but short-term, high-confidence warnings…