Aurora Borealis over the Eyecatcher, Steeple Aston (51.9297° N, 1.3108° W), 10/05/2024 @ 23:06:25 UTC (Jon Gascoyne)

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Aurora Borealis over the Eyecatcher, Steeple Aston (51.9297° N, 1.3108° W), 10/05/2024 @ 23:06:25 UTC

The UK was last night treated to a rare and spectacular auroral display courtesy of some of the strongest geomagnetic storm activity since 2003. The storms are a result of a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar flares associated with a highly active sunspot region, designated 3664.

Storm levels reached severe to extreme over the course of ~ 4hrs on the evening of the 10 May and remain elevated (11/05/24 14:25 UTC). To date the peak Disturbance Storm Time (Dst) index has reached -412 nT, just short of the -422 nT recorded during the Halloween Solar Storms of 2003.

For more information visit SpaceWeatherLive's page:

https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/news/view/538/20240511-strongest-geomagnetic-storm-since-2003-x5-8-solar-flare.html

A Type IV CME detected by ESA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) @ 02:36 on the 11th May 2024:

The unedited version of the aurora image was peppered with numerous small high amplitude artifacts like that shown below. These are attributed to high energy cosmic rays from the aurora hitting the cameras CCD chip:

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