The West PacificBoard

Bhang Bhang Duc wrote:

Looked out of the north facing door at 23:00 BST and couldn’t see anything apart from a nice crescent Moon with earthshine setting in the north-west. It wasn’t until I went outside and looked up that I saw the aurora.

Just a hint of a vague veil of purple and red when I looked from the backyard in Central Arkansas. I decided to take a drive with the top down, so I could glance around at the sky on some local roads with less lighting. A bit more obvious, but still vaguely there. There are some good local pictures. But best overexposed photo I got shows some blue/purple in the NW sky fading to black at zenith.

Looks like we're currently at Kp7, G3 storm levels. Hemispheric power down to 236GW from the 357GW last night. Although I read, "anything over 200GW is massive." Looks good for another evening of aurora tonight.

One of the best pictures I've seen of the aurora was shot from the Gold Coast that included bioluminescent algae glowing blue on a ocean swell below the aurora filled sky.