Jure Atanackov
@JAtanackov
Chasing storms and northern lights on the sunny side of the Alps. Meteors, meteor showers & meteorites. Active tectonics and earthquake hazard. Views my own.
Want to see aurora but you live way south? No problem. I am located just south of the Alps at 45°N MLAT, about as far south as north Texas in the US and my tally for this solar cycle is 14 aurora displays. It could easily be more if I hadn't missed a few. It has been a fine solar…
What a beautiful show!
Bright beautiful pillars and deep colors. 44 lat NNY 10PM - 1020 PM. @JAtanackov @Vincent_Ledvina @landon_wx @WickyDubs2 @TamithaSkov @AuroraNotify
Another rocket second stage show over Europe!
Right now in Corsica 11:01 p.m. falcon degasing?
EOS had just highlighted our paper on the preconditioning of the solar wind by ICMEs A great honor indeed. You can access the story by following the link below: eos.org/editor-highlig…. @JAtanackov #SpaceWeather Many hanks to my wonderful Co-authors Manuela Temmer & Xochitl Cano
The HUXt model also sees a near-certain hit (87% hit probability), also on July 27th. The CME will arrive at just above 400 km/s. It might be one of those looong ones. Fingers crossed.
Incoming CME! Arrival at Earth possibly early on July 26th. The source of the slow partial halo was the eruption of a small filament this morning. Not expecting much from this one, but we could see some minor storming (G1). Prediction from NASA M2M SWAO by @spacewxwatch
SWPC WSA-ENLIL model essentially confirms the CME will hit us, but as late as July 27th. It will likely register more in plasma density and the IMF than in solar wind speed. It's something!
Incoming CME! Arrival at Earth possibly early on July 26th. The source of the slow partial halo was the eruption of a small filament this morning. Not expecting much from this one, but we could see some minor storming (G1). Prediction from NASA M2M SWAO by @spacewxwatch
Incoming CME! Arrival at Earth possibly early on July 26th. The source of the slow partial halo was the eruption of a small filament this morning. Not expecting much from this one, but we could see some minor storming (G1). Prediction from NASA M2M SWAO by @spacewxwatch
Seeing a faint and slow partial halo CME in the latest LASCO C2 imagery. More soon.
The sunspot number has dropped somewhat over the past few days, but it should rebound soon: most active regions are in the eastern half of the solar disk. There is a number of active regions on the far side that will rotate into view over the next 7 days or so. No major flares,…
Beautiful aurora display seen from Mt Washington this morning (UTC)!
NORTHERN LIGHTS VISIBLE FROM MT WASHINGTON NH 11:01PM ‼️
Aurora over Wisconsin this morning (UTC)! We are beginning to feel the effects of the hammer / Daffy duck coronal hole.
Comes to Wisconsin for @EAA ended up with a gorgeous display of Aurora just near Oshkosh! #wiwx @Vincent_Ledvina @landon_wx
What is the symptom list of ADS - Aurora Deprivation Syndrome? What are ADS symptoms you experience? Let's see if we can put together a full list :)
How cool is it that this comet (3I/ATLAS) comes from another solar system? Like a drifting message in a bottle from aliens, carrying with it messages of the chemistry at formation of another solar system. It is likely outgassing, producing a coma and a tail for the first time. A…
Incoming CME. A CME from a filament eruption on July 20th may clip us tomorrow or on Thursday. At best it will be a glancing blow, producing a minor to moderate geomagnetic storm. The CME may interact with the incoming coronal hole solar wind stream, we will see what that does.
Early meteors from these two meteor showers are already visible, at low rates. Alpha Capricornids would be rare, but if there is one, it would be unmistakable. Here's a -4 magnitude CAP fireball shooting past Delphinus on July 17th, 2006. Nikon D70, Sigma 20 mm f/1.8 EX DG, ISO…
No, there is nothing 'BREAKING' about about this. The two meteor showers - the Southern delta Aquarids and the Alpha Capricornids - are *very* regular, annual meteor showers. We have known about them for over a century. At best they produce 30 meteors per hour (not 100!!) - under…
3 days of new active region 4149 rotating into view. A beta region with 5% chance of X-class and 20% chance of M-class flares, this is currently the most promising active region on the Earth facing side of the Sun.
Lepa supercelica nad Novo Gorico - textbook struktura z mezociklonom, zalitim RFD-jem in wall cloudom. Zdaj gre v smeri Ljubljane. @vremenolovec
No, there is nothing 'BREAKING' about about this. The two meteor showers - the Southern delta Aquarids and the Alpha Capricornids - are *very* regular, annual meteor showers. We have known about them for over a century. At best they produce 30 meteors per hour (not 100!!) - under…
For some the 10-11 August 2024 G4 storm is the best of the cycle so far, better than both the 10-11 May 2024 G5 Gannon storm and the 10-11 October 2024 G4 storm!
Aug 11-12, 2024 simply because of the intense 1 am substorm
On this day 5 years ago comet C/2020 F8 (NEOWISE) graced our evening skies. #4 among 150+ comets I've seen since 1994. Past its brightest, but now higher in a darker skies & with the most impressive tails of any northern hemisphere comet since Hale-Bopp in 1997 and Hyakutake (!!)…
Hot take: predicting an earthquake when a coronal hole affects us and then calling the prediction successful when a magnitude 5-6 quake happens in some of the most active subduction zones in the Ring of Fire - or in the entire world - is like predicting a pigeon in Venice and…
