2015/16 Armchair Aurora watching

[GloriaSmud]

A new thread all ready for the coming Aurora season (hopefully I've included all the websites that were used before!)

Spaceweather (all space news including Aurora forecasts)
Icelandic metoffice (Aurora forecasts for Iceland)

Webcams (hopefully those not working yet will come online soon)
Icelandic webcams
Hotelranga (Icelandic Hotel)
Alaska Auroracam
Alaska aurora ‘movie
Aurora service (European webcams)
Aurora service (New Zealand/Tasmania webcams)
South Pole webcam
Abisko
Porjus1
Porjus3
ISS livestream

Recently found this one one so might/might not have Aurora ~ The University of Tromsø

Shetland webcams here, here and here.

Wikipedia entry on Aurora colours

Oh you lucky lucky!!

Those photos are fabulous

Oooh lovely. If only I had a private jet to whisk me up to the Orkneys...

Where was your pic taken, Tondelaya?

Longyearbyen just now.

Svalbard tonight

Have we just x-posted, BunBaker?

I wondered. Which webcam link did you use?

Same one as you, now I've clicked on yours and seen Longyearbyen at the top.

Longyearbyen is on Svalbard so could be 2 cams looking the same

A period hug for GloriaSmud tonight. I had to restart my MacBook and lost all my regular (open) tabs - your list of our main sites in the OP is brilliant!

Oh arse! Not a period hug - that would be eewww and TMI. No, a periodic hug.

And we're off at Tromso and Abisko. 2 CMEs headed our way from the 19th so could be a very decent weekend show at lower altitudes - go away cloud!

2 CMEs? Excellent news! I will keep my fingers crossed for action over Xmas as I'm going far enough north and somewhere dark enough to possibly see something if it's really strong.

Here's one from Abisko earlier

Following Romcom over from another thread, hi!
I have to see the penguin colony webcam! This is whole new world for me but I'd like to get acquainted please. As a child I saw an aurora from a hill in Kilkenny, Ireland. Long time ago.

Welcome Tirfar! If you've seen the lights IRL then you are already a champ, along with Bunbaker and Tondelayo.

I'll see if I can find the penguin cam, though it's midsummer there at the mo (Antarctica).

It's in amongst the US Antarctic Program's Palmer Station webcams: www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/palwebcam.cfm The penguin cam covers a breeding colony, but there are no chicks at the mo.

Yay. I'm famous!
The lights we saw were white, not green, but they showed up on the camera as green.

Thanks for the link have book marked it for summer baby penguins.
I was a bit underwhelmed at the time it's only that my mum still bangs on about it that I remember the night. She got us all up to go and see.

This just popped up in my Facebook news feed apologies if you have seen it.
lights

Never apologise for good northern lights footage, Tinfar - it leavens our regular diet of skycam footage.

According to spaceweather, there's a 70% chance of storms after a CME struck the earth and possibly another one's on its way. Perhaps a good chance of seeing something on the webcams.

Abisko is looking good right now.

Amber alert at the moment on Lancaster university site, big redness on Spaceweather map.
Keep looking Armchair watchers! Maybe, maybe UK tonight?!!!

North coast of Northern Ireland earlier on this evening, has been very quiet on the aurora front here lately as we seem to be constantly covered in cloud. Tonight the cloud stayed behind me and the rain stayed away!