Minor CMEs spark bright aurora

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Minor CMEs spark bright aurora

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Over recent days our magnetic field has been reverberating in the wake of a couple of CMEs. Although very minor in strength, the southward polarity of the interplanetary magnetic fields associated with the CMEs created 'openings' in our magnetosphere for Earth directed solar plasma to create beautiful aurora(see Spaceweather.com for images). My magnetometers detected the magnetic deviations, as shown below.
20140828_Minor CME.jpg
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With solar activity at low levels, things have quietened down again on my magnetometers. Consequently, the chances of spectacular aurora are, for the time being, very low.

Thanks for looking.

Stu.


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Hi Stuart

what a great Job. Your plot showes so much more fine details


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thanks for this magnetic weather forecast! :lol:


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Thanks for appreciating the data, guys. :)

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Fantastic! Is it possible to access your plots live online Stu?


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marktownley wrote:Fantastic! Is it possible to access your plots live online Stu?
Hi Mark,

I've thought about doing this, but I've resisted so far because my PC is operating as a 'stand alone' computer without an internet link in my garage so I'd have to set this up and don't have WiFi on that machine. Also the data do need a bit of cleaning up before I present them. Ideally the sensors should be in a totally magnetically isolated environment so that the data are pure. In reality there is some noise (mainly my car entering and leaving the driveway) which I filter out when I process the data and chart it for public viewing here.

Professional realtime data can be viewed at:

http://www.intermagnet.org/data-donnee/ ... p?type=xyz

This covers most of the globe.

Cheers

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Thanks Stu!


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