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Oh hellooooo high probability auroras! I'll be watching my sky as it gets dark tonight!

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Haven't gone outside yet, was checking through the window when I saw a RIDICULOUSLY bright satellite and started swearing at it, only to realize it's the ISS. Sigh. It's so awful that Starlink has made me so deeply hate spaceflight.

BLARG. Ok, heading outside now for realz.

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Back inside warming up for a bit. I stood in my yard (so grateful I am mostly outside urban light pollution), in the snow, with a barn cat purring and rubbing my legs while coyotes sang to the auroras. Lovely!!

Contrasting with that peaceful scene, I also saw a whole bunch of Starlink sats (I know they are Starlinks because they're bright and because of their orbits) flying through the auroras. Eat protons, Musk.

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Michael ☕️

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The white dots are satellites.

The green head&shoulders icons are the International Space Station and the Chinese Space Station.

The large red/white blinking squares you can zoom in on to see where satellites did recently or will soon burn up in the atmosphere.

The smaller red blinking dots are ground uplink stations.

You can turn on People in the settings to see how many people are using Starlink terminals in an area.

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This looks like a neat crowd-source/citizen science aurora website: aurorasaurus.org/

Aurorasaurus - Reporting Auroras from the Ground Up

Friends, see my real-time #aurora report on the aurorasaurus.org map! Follow us on www.facebook.com/aurorasaurus.org. Reporting #northernlights and #citizenscience from the ground up since 2012!
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Let's hope that the Parker Solar Probe, during its close approach of the Sun tomorrow, flies through a flare or CME.

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Parker Solar Probe

In order to unlock the mysteries of the corona, but also to protect a society that is increasingly dependent on technology from the threats of space weather, Parker Solar Probe was sent to touch the Sun.
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make its 23rd close approach of the Sun tomorrow March 22, 2025 at 22:42 UTC.

At perihelion, it will be at a distance of just 6.1 million km from the solar surface, traveling at a speed of 692,000 km/h, matching its previous record set during perihelion 22 on Dec 24, 2024.

For comparison, the perihelion of planet Mercury is at 45.3 mil km.

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Pᵉtɘr Wᵉil8acher

Stupid question, but don't you get them all the time? I was in Norway a few weeks ago and we had them basically every night, not continuously but every few hours. Often shining through clouds.
Colleagues originally from Scandinavia tell me the same, they are surprised that people make such a big deal out of auroras.
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