Aurorae again tonight?

Hi all.

What a show last night - off to the photo lab soon! Another heads up - the Sun unleashed a X-10 flare @2049 UT last night! Initial estimates put the speed of the full-halo CMR @ 1948 km/s - it should probably arrive after 1800 UT tonight. No word yet on likely turning of the IMF. The rain is upposed to clear from the north later tonight, so there's a chance...

Best of luck!

Brian O'Halloran
Dunsink Observatory

groups.yahoo.com/group/auroralobserving/

The current weather forcast is pretty dire. But since when have we ever relied on Met Eireann?

From looking at the satellite images[1] there appears to be a central low pressure area just off the west coast. If that does manage to swing around during the night then its possible that we might see something through broken cloud, which is better than the blanket rain that Dublin currently has.

Cheers,
~Al

[1]
www.met.ie/forecasts/atlantic.asp
www.meto.gov.uk/satpics/latest_VIS.html
www.meto.gov.uk/satpics/latest_IR.html