Northen lights tonight @10pm

[Leanne]

Too cloudy in Watten

[upolian]

Too cloudy in Watten

seems theres always a cloud out here

[Mystical Potato Head]

Now that made me laugh.

Cheers for the heads up anyway Paul. Not seen a decent showing now for years. Remember about twenty years back when we were kids there were brilliant showings, however the solar activity should increase over the next few years again I am told. 25 year cycles or something.

Its about every 11 years,the last solar maximum was 2001 so it should peak again around 2012 so activity should steadily increase over the next few years especially as the experts are saying this will be the most intense maximum for 50 years.
Space weather.com is a good site for informing you about solar flares and geomagnetic activity and is usually pretty accurate for its aurora forecasts.obviously not run by the Met office.
http://spaceweather.com/

[ShelleyCowie]

Its about every 11 years,the last solar maximum was 2001 so it should peak again around 2012 so activity should steadily increase over the next few years especially as the experts are saying this will be the most intense maximum for 50 years.
Space weather.com is a good site for informing you about solar flares and geomagnetic activity and is usually pretty accurate for its aurora forecasts.obviously not run by the Met office.
http://spaceweather.com/

Thanks for clearing it up!

[young_fishin_neep]

i seen a street light when i landed on ma erse

id pay to see that

xx

[Mik.M.]

I did see summat over the horizon but I think it was the northerner lights trying to keep the Portgower vampires at bay.

Or did his cooking fat catch light?

[DarkAngel]

i seen a street light when i landed on ma erse

Lol... hope yer Erse is alrite lol

[cazmanian_minx]

If you want a heads up of when you're likely to see the Northern Lights, Aurora Watch will email you - it's a project at Lancaster University:

http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/

Yesterday they sent out a false alarm due to man-made disturbance at their Lancaster field site.

[northener]

....due to man-made disturbance at their Lancaster field site.

Probably my mate Julian.....

[Mik.M.]

If you want a heads up of when you're likely to see the Northern Lights, Aurora Watch will email you - it's a project at Lancaster University:

http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/

Yesterday they sent out a false alarm due to man-made disturbance at their Lancaster field site.

Thanks for the link caz,all signed up.Mik.

[upolian]

Or did his cooking fat catch light?

[Martin England]

If you want a heads up of when you're likely to see the Northern Lights, Aurora Watch will email you - it's a project at Lancaster University:

http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/

Yesterday they sent out a false alarm due to man-made disturbance at their Lancaster field site.

Thanks for posting link, now registered and await emails

Martin

[riggerboy]

if you missed upolian landing on his erse theres a re-run on bbc2

as for the northern lights when are they happening ????

[nightspirit]

If you go to this site you can sign up and get an email when ther is any solar activity that may give us a light show,

http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/