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Possible Aurora sighting tonight


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If you have clear skies in a dark setting and a clear northern horizon, there is the possibility of an aurora sighting tonight in some areas in the northern half of North America as far south as New York and in northern Europe as far south as the British Isles. Weather forecast for Europe is generally poor (I am totally clouded out) but I don't know about North America.

Refer to these links (first link has good visibility charts) and don't blame me if nothing happens and you don't see the Northern Lights! Some sites say it's only a 60% chance. I've seen the Northern Lights on a few occasions from my location in Ireland at 52.5 degs. N, some faint, some spectacular.

 http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/dazzling_northern_lights_antic_1/10107004

http://www.nightskyhunter.com/Sky%20Events%20Now.html

http://www.spaceweather.com/

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I'll definitly will take a look outside. Sun is in the begin to go down and the sky looks nearly cloudless at the moment. We had a rainy day....but the weatherforecast says it stays cloudless for the first half of the night. I'm living in a suburban city...hope that I will still be able to see at least something.

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Damn, no chance for me down here at about 37.5. I've never seen the Northern Lights ever; I hope to some day. I've friends who live near the Candian border who've seen them, but it's never happened when I'm visiting. They do have a very good northern exposure, too. Mountains to the west but nothing much to the north for miles.

Double damn. I just checked their weather and they're partly cloudy en route to mostly cloudy followed by showers.

My southern location did benefit me when Hale-Bott went by, though. We had spectacular views. I was the first person I know to see it. Went out to the car pre-dawn and since there was not the usual marine layer, looked at the sky. Was absolutely stunned to see a fuzzy patch of light where none belonged. My first thought was that some star had gone nova or something. When I got to work I called the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (who used to be fond of pointing out they were the only listing under 'Astronomy" in the San Francisco Yellow Pages). The guy I talked to actually grilled me on my sighting: direction, altitude angle, etc. He finally decided I'd seen it where it belonged and told me it was a comet. In the months to come it became a pretty spectacular sight.

 

 

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