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This site is intended for anyone interested in astronomy, and particularly anyone who would like to be a member of the Bootham School Astronomy Society. This membership is available to all members of the Bootham community, and students from other York schools who have attended the ISSP course on astronomy at Bootham. If you choose to subscribe by email, you will receive an email of any new post within about twenty four hours. There will also be twitter updates before an observatory session, and you are recommended to follow me on twitter using the button on the right of this screen.

Monday 23 January 2012

Coronal Mass ejection (CME) on the way

At about 2pm on tuesday afternoon the biggest solar storm to hit the Earth since 2005 will arrive. It is possible that we may get a showing of the Northern Lights on Tuesday night, so check in with this page to see what the aurorawatch status is. If you see red, go outside at once and look for aurorae!!!



this picture was taken by Bjørn Jørgensen from Tromsø, Norway on the night of the 22nd.
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