Solar storm caused by southerly oriented interplanetary magnetic field

[Carbon60]

The interplanetary magnetic field turned 'south' this weekend, creating a geo-effective solar storm here on Earth as it ploughed into our magnetosphere. See http://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/help ... -field-imf for more details. The storm was significant and the magnetic disturbance sparked strong aurora around the poles and further south than usual.

This was a moderate storm (now subsiding) at G2 level with a Kp6 planetary index. Below are my magnetometer data showing the effects yesterday. Also shown are some N-S (X) data from Chambon la Foret, located close to Paris, as a reference. The correlation between my N-S data and those from Chambon appears to be quite good.

Thanks for looking.

Stu.

[Montana]

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Fantastic data!

Alexandra

[swisswalter]

Hi Stuart

congratulations, you have the finer resolution : : :

[Carbon60]

Thanks Alexandra and Walter.

After months of ironing out the wrinkles I'm pleased that these are now working so well and giving the professionals a run for their money. I could have bought a commercial product, but it is more fun and more rewarding building from scratch. We now just need some more solar events for more data!!

My Hi-res charts sample at 150 times the data sampling rate shown in these charts!!

Thanks again.


Regards

Stuart