Aurora Related Web Sites

[Analoguesat]

We are getting towards solar maximum, solar activity is building up and the sun is ratling the ionosphere enough to give us occasional auroral activity at lest in the northern half of the uk.

Heres some sites I have bookmarked that are useful to keep an eye on whats happening.

Feel free to add other good websites you know about.

General aurora related news - we want it at storm level
-http://www.softservenews.com/Aurora.htm

Pictures & live updates when things are happening:
-https://twitter.com/#!/VirtualAstro

Based here in the Borders, but aggregates a lot of useful info:
-http://www.bordersweather.co.uk/wxspace.php?1331831782#data

3 hour updates of whats happening:
-http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html

UK based & you can sign up for free email alerts (these can be uselessly slow to arrive to some webmail accounts - 24 hour delays are not unknown with yahoo!)
-http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/

Swedish sky cam - useful when its raining here!
-http://www.auroraskystation.com/live-camera/9/

The auroral oval - we want the red/yellow to move south towards the UK!
-http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/pmapN.html

 

[timo_w2s]

This is quite a useful page too with detailed resources:
_http://cc.oulu.fi/~thu/Aurora/forecast.html

Some all-sky cams in Finland:
_http://aurora.fmi.fi/public_service/english/latest_asc_image.html
_http://www.sgo.fi/Data/RealTime/allsky.php

And of course this site reports a lot on aurora:
_http://www.spaceweather.com

I missed the recent displays as it's been overcast and raining in Helsinki over the last few nights...

 

[Analoguesat]

Clouded out completely here Monday night, then nothing visible last night when it was clear