Vincent Ledvina
@Vincent_Ledvina
“The Aurora Guy” 📸 Northern lights photographer in Alaska!🔭Space Physics PhD student☀️💨 Tweets/views own!
Check out this recent article I was a co-author on: "Citizen Science in Space and Atmospheric Sciences: Opportunities and Challenges" link.springer.com/article/10.100… Here's a thread of the main points outlined in our paper:
Wow! This one is stunning.
Aurora is out big time now in Wilson NY over Lake Ontario! 11:05 pm est 43°N
Comes to Wisconsin for @EAA ended up with a gorgeous display of Aurora just near Oshkosh! #wiwx @Vincent_Ledvina @landon_wx
Captured these photos of the Northern Lights tonight! Absolutely breathtaking. These are all totally unedited. The lights were camera visible, but I feel like I could see pillars (without color) with the naked eye. Taken in Etna, NH near Hanover #NorthernLights
Wow nice one from Acadia right now!
Going to be a substormy bumpy ride! Coronal hole is delivering some activity. Acadia National Park, ME #spacewx #northernlights #aurora #maine @TamithaSkov @Vincent_Ledvina
Beautiful!
Bright beautiful pillars and deep colors. 44 lat NNY 10PM - 1020 PM. @JAtanackov @Vincent_Ledvina @landon_wx @WickyDubs2 @TamithaSkov @AuroraNotify
Nice aurora in Maine right now! A bit of a subtle glow and likely mainly camera-only visible, but it’s beautiful nonetheless. go.theauroraguy.com/webcams
Solar wind is still very conducive for mid-latitude aurora shows tonight, especially along the U.S.-Canada border and in general north of the 45th parallel. Keep your eyes north and check webcams for live views. Webcams: go.theauroraguy.com/webcams
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.
The aurora borealis in Fairbanks, Alaska March 2025
IMPORTANT: solar wind measurements may be glitchy right now due to the data dropout from DSCOVR and ACE being an old spacecraft and sometimes glitchy itself. This can affect things like: - OVATION model - OVATION model alerts (for example, “Aurora may be visible in your location…
Another update on DSCOVR:
NOAA: "Due to a software bus anomaly, DSCOVR is offline until further notice. At this time, there is no estimated time for recovery." We still have ACE as our real-time solar wind monitor, but DSCOVR is a nice backup in case ACE ever goes offline (which it does sometimes).
Early effects from the coronal hole seem to be hitting Earth right now! We are seeing enhanced magnetic field strength ~15 nT with variable Bz (but mostly positive). Possible mid-latitude aurora tonight if conditions hold.
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.
Woohoo! This will be amazing for real-time solar wind monitoring.
NOAA’s SWFO-L1 spacecraft has arrived in Florida to begin launch preparations. Set to launch with NASA’s IMAP mission no earlier than Sep., SWFO-L1 will journey a million miles to L1 to deliver real-time observations of the Sun and solar wind to SWPC.
I wish Meta would take action against these pages. Take “Northern Light” which has been shut down and restarted a few times over the past year. This page and others post AI aurora content claiming their “photos” were “captured last night in Alaska” or some other location to give…
What does the current coronal hole on the Sun look like to you? I always like to think of this just like looking for shapes in the clouds. I’m not sure why, but I’m reminded of the shape of Italy when I see this one.
