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July '17 Geomagnetic Summary

Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 2:50 pm
by Carbon60
Hi all,

Here is my summary of geomagnetic activity for July.
July Summary.jpg
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The most significant event was the CME impact and consequent wake turbulence July 16th/17th which sparked a G2 storm and beautiful aurora. Apart from a minor CME event at the start of the month, mostly the space environment was fairly quiet except for occasional gusts of solar wind from a couple of coronal holes.

We'll see what August brings.

Thanks for looking.

Stu.

Re: July '17 Geomagnetic Summary

Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 3:02 pm
by marktownley
Good record Stu! Will be interesting to see what august does bring!

Re: July '17 Geomagnetic Summary

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 5:38 am
by Carbon60
Many thanks, Mark.

Stu.

Re: July '17 Geomagnetic Summary

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 6:58 am
by Montana
Still a fair bit of activity for a quiet Sun so hopefully these coronal holes will bring some aurora activity this autumn.

Alexandra

Re: July '17 Geomagnetic Summary

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 5:47 am
by Carbon60
Hi Alexandra, let's hope so. I was hoping for something later this week ahead of my trip to Iceland, but AR2670 appears to be too stable and I don't see any coronal holes on the horizon in time for my short stay. Ah well.....

Stu.

Re: July '17 Geomagnetic Summary

Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 6:39 am
by marktownley
There are still some NLC around Stu, keep an eye open for them. Looking forward to hearing how you got on, take lots of pics!

Re: July '17 Geomagnetic Summary

Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2017 8:53 pm
by highfnum
please explain in short summary why coronal hole
behaves a bit like flare activity

nice work
JP

Re: July '17 Geomagnetic Summary

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 6:48 am
by Carbon60
Thanks, Mark. I'll certainly keep a look out for NLCs. Some aurorae would be nice though.

John, coronal holes allow the solar wind to flow more freely from the Sun, pushing charged particles at high speed out into space. When Earth is in the wind stream we see the effects as aurorae and geomagnetic unrest.

Stu.

Re: July '17 Geomagnetic Summary

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 9:01 am
by Montana
You are in luck Stu, a coronal hole is just opening up for your Iceland trip :)
Alexandra

Re: July '17 Geomagnetic Summary

Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 10:17 am
by marktownley
Carbon60 wrote: Thu Aug 10, 2017 6:48 am Thanks, Mark. I'll certainly keep a look out for NLCs. Some aurorae would be nice though.
Based on when we were there this time last year you need to be observing from 1am-3am local time for any chance of seeing them, it's light for the rest of the time.

Re: July '17 Geomagnetic Summary

Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2017 8:53 am
by Carbon60
Who needs sleep? :)

Thanks for the tip, Mark.

Stu.