friday night northern lights possible

[Chip]

http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/northern-lights-viewing-condit/33834457

 

[DougPaul]

http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/northern-lights-viewing-condit/33834457

Auroras were observed as far south as Arizona Thursday night. The second CME, due Fri night, may be stronger.

Unfortunately, the nearly full moon will rise a little after 9pm (in eastern MA), so the best seeing might be just before then.

Doug

 

[Chip]

absolutely some grey streaks (that are not clouds) visible in western ct in a perfectly clear night.

 

[dug]

I saw somw grey streaks in Southern NH, hard to tell if they were clouds or not. Closest I got, and checked several times.

Mt. Washington Obs tweeted some great pictures last night.

 

[DougPaul]

Clouds blocked my attempts to view the aurora from the NW Boston suburbs.

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=13&month=09&year=2014 shows a picture from Casco, Maine and http://spaceweathergallery.com/aurora_gallery.html shows a bunch of images including one from Long Island, NY.

An 11pm (Friday, 12 Sept) TV news program showed a nice picture from the top of Mt Washington. It might have been this image: http://cbsboston.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/mountwashington.jpg?w=420&h=138

50MHz (6 meter amateur band) noise levels were high (typical of auroras), but I didn't hear any signals bouncing off the aurora. (It is often possible to bounce signals of this frequency range off auroras.)

Doug

 

[peakbagger]

I was bummed, the clouds visible in the Mt Washington Obs photo blocked my view

 

[DougPaul]

No luck last night (Sat, 13 Sept) here (NW Boston suburbs) either even though it was clear to the N at 2am.

Scandinavia appears to be the place to have been...
See http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=14&month=09&year=2014 Check out the video, all the links in the section "Auroras in Motion:", and the "Realtime Aurora Photo Gallery".

Doug

 

[JohnL]

Apparently there was good viewing from the summit of Mt Monroe. A photo from a friend on flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/jessiebriggs/15261726925/

JohnL