AURORAL ACTIVITY SIGHTINGS AS OF 15/2355 UTC
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1655 UTC - (S40.30 E175.40) - Glen Oroua, New Zealand.
Comments: Despite a near Full Moon setting in the west a
strong
red glow was first seen around the Southern Cross at due
south.
Then ray bundles started forming under The Pointers, and Eta
Carinae, two seperate bundles going off at the same time up
to 1
degrees high.
2145 UTC - (N??.?? W???.??) - Glossop, Derbyshire.U.K
Comments: will have a better idea when it gets dark!
2200 UTC - (N47.15 W001.09) - St fiacre sur maine near Nantes (West
France)
Comments: Beautiful red light at the moment between NW and N,
polaris inside.
2200 UTC - (N48.70 E005.58) - L´Escarene, France
Comments: Report from L´EscarĀne, France (15 miles from Nice)
Lat.
43 50 07 North, Long. 07 21 26 East At 22h20 UT we observed
an
auroral display which lasted 20 mn, 2 separate zones were
visible,
the first to appear was west of Cassopeia, under Ursa Minor,
pink
columns were clearly visible, spanning 20 degrees on the
horizon,
and 15-20 degrees high, the second zone engulfed Ursa Major
and
was a pink featureless zone spanning 20 degrees and 30-40
degrees
high. The columns lasted a good 10 minutes and the pink
featureless zone twice that much. The show was superb despite
the
near full moon, it was awesome! our first aurora!
We tried a few pictures, we´ll see what comes out within the
next
couple of days. Michel Benvenuto and Claude Minghelli
www.benvenuto.com.
2212 UTC - (N51.27 E007.05) - Dusseldorf, Germany
Comments: between clouds.
2215 UTC - (N46.00 W071.00) - Copenhagen, Denmark
2218 UTC - (N49.95 E011.74) - 10 km east of Bayreuth, Germany
Comments: It began as faint rays pointing towards zenith from
azimuth approx. 30 and 330, slowly growing to dark red beams
covering Ursa Major and Camelopardalis and fading away as
cloud-like red patches. Near the horizon and up to approx 20o
altitude rather bright sky, the colour of which I could not
determine (not green, however).
2220 UTC - (N51.00 W000.00) London, UK
Comments: Diffuse white-blue glow in northern sky, discrete
pale
blue-white beams radiating from about 20-30 deg above ENE
horizon
to zenith. More beams appeared above north horizon and
stretched
to the zenith. Eastern beams changed colour to violet.
Structure
disappeared after 5-10 mins, replaced by faint diffuse glow.
Severe interference from twilight, light pollution and
nearly-full
Moon. Was impressed to see anything at all given the
conditions!
2230 UTC - (N51.20 E001.30) - Aylesham, Kent
Comments: Certainly as active this evening, but skies not as
favourable, as the April event. Hard to find clear skies
tonight
in SE Kent, but found a reasonably clear northerly view for a
short while near Aylesham. Northern skies very bright with
diffuse white glow; white, pink and redish quite mobile rays
in
the NE, followed 10 minutes later by similar to the NW (just
outside Ursa Major).
2230 UTC - (N50.00 W00.00) - Bexhill Sussex England
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