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

Tromso ~ reliably lovely as usual!
There's been a sunspot that's erupted, so chance of more aurora later in the week.
Am also waiting for Abisko to return

More loveliness from Tromso this evening!

Excellent. I had an aurora alert from the Lancaster Uni service today, but only moderate strength.

Tromso once again again doing its thing!
And more excitement in the form of a CME due tonight.

Shame it's so wet and cloudy on most of the European cameras tonight.

I've been on high alert for the past three weeks....lots of sunspot action, but uncooperative clouds and weather

...am NE Scotland and always on the look out!!

ABISKO IS LIVE AGAIN!!!!!! (Though more grainy than last year - boo to the poorer resolution.)

What a great start at Abisko!

Yay ~ Abisko's back!

I've looked at the daytime footage, Gloria, and I think the resolution is just fine if there is plenty of light - it's only smudgy when it's overcast and dull. On the basis of today's daylight pics, I think we'll get some lovely shots this winter when the lights are bright and busy.

Abisko seems to be having problems ~ 'tis all black at the moment!
Tromso is looking lovely though.

Yep, it died mid evening - not long after I pointed all the Northern Lights threadpeople towards it (and this thread).

It's still dead.

And it's back!

Definitely a rippling curtain of lights at Thingvellir just now, but the resolution is so sketchy I won't bother posting a picture.

I've been watching the lights at Thingvellir on the webcam this evening - we will be just south of where the webcam is later in the year and I am very hopeful that we may be lucky this time. I was in Reykjavik in October and two days after I left there were the most amazing displays over the city - there are pics on the Icelandmonitor site and I was very miffed that I had missed them.

Pic

ooh good grief it actually posted...this is The Blob that appeared for about 4 minutes back at the beginning of October, mobile phone pic, out of my bedroom window. Clearly visible to the naked eye too!

I shall try and post a better one from this Wednesday, but don't hold your breath, my phone, MN and pic tend not to get on!

ooh good grief it actually posted...this is The Blob that appeared for about 4 minutes back at the beginning of October, mobile phone pic, out of my bedroom window. Clearly visible to the naked eye too!

I shall try and post a better one from this Wednesday, but don't hold your breath, my phone, MN and pic tend not to get on!

This Wednesday

Excellent stuff Tondelayo!

I note it is sporadically clear and very starry at Abisko - fingers crossed for some action over the w/e. I had a low key alert for UK from Lancs Uni, so we may be in luck.

Sorry, I turned you masculine Tondelaya.

oh, I am on a roll now, if you ignore the double posting! Had no idea this was happening until I went out to collect dh from the station at 11pm and thought the sky looked a bit iffy...

stopped to take a few pics and then was late for dh, and this one was taken with my phone balanced on a dodgy sign post, which is why the stars are lines....it was only a 14s exp so they're not real star trails.

Also green and red visible to the naked eye and lovely spiking pillars.

You jammy mare! How far north are you?