From August 28 to September 2, 1859, numerous sunspots and solar flares were observed on the sun, resulting in what we refer to now as the Carrington Event. The stories about this solar storm are amazing. The lights must have been fantastic, reaching far south into Cuba and Jamaica. I wonder how much damage would…
The big show expected did not happen. Some areas saw low aurora, some saw faint streaks, but the CME’s never hit. Yellowknife did see a pretty good show despite the data. Some folks’ cameras in the Fairbanks area picked up aurora, but it was very hard to decipher with the naked eye. If you had…
This short video shows the latest solar flare on the sun, which should produce a very nice aurora this weekend visible in areas where it gets dark, from southern Alaska all the way to the middle of the USA, also in areas of Europe where it gets dark at night. This is a big enough…
