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In Scotland, there was a visible aurora last night. The BBC was full of pictures of this today.  I am not sure how far south it was visible....

Apparently you can watch auroras live via a couple of webcams. See  https://lightsoverlapland.com/webcams/ .

The BBC was forecasting aurora sightings possible in the north of Scotland tonight and Southgate News talks about a CME event hitting the e...

This was on Space Weather earlier: "SOLAR WIND ENGULFS EARTH: A solar wind storm is underway around Earth as our planet enters a h...

Shortly after 6m was released in the UK back in the mid 1980s I only had 1W to a simple wire dipole. This antenna was not very high and just...

See http://spaceweather.com/ . We could be in for some auroras with a strong blast of solar wind over the next few days. This could lead ...

Thanks (again) to Southgate News comes news of pink auroras. There were 3 days now without sunspots although today the sunspot number is 13...

The Space Weather website reports on a world famous surfer who sees a visible aurora in Norway. See http://www.smh.com.au/sport/surfing-g...

There is a chance of aurora May 6th according to Dr Tamitha Skov on Twitter. I don't use Twitter much but get a daily email.

See https://www.facebook.com/greenpeace.canada/videos/10153577012364961/ . If you have a Facebook account you may be very impressed by th...

I have never (before) now used WSPR on 10m and 6m during an auroral opening.  Certainly on 2m the Doppler is likely to make it impossible, I...

Yesterday, satellites picked up the strongest solar flare in almost 2 years. The M2 class eruption came from an old sun...