...BTW, the aurora forecasts for this weekend (up to kp7) may indicate activity also at latitudes not normally experiencing it.
After a delay, the forecast finally came though! At first I did not see anything special when I aimed straight overhead, but when I went around the corned of my cabin facing north towards the neighbor cabin, my eye picked up some slightly red areas in an otherwise not too interesting looking sky, which could have gone undetected if I had not already spied on the local aurora cameras on the net. So I was prepared when my Z8 picked up the most intense red aurora that I have ever seen at these latitudes! Again, the lesson is that our eyes are very poor at picking up the reds in the dark, while the Z8 at ISO 3200 only needed 4 sec exposure at f/4 with my 14-30mm lens. Keep a watch out (with your camera, as the eye might not pick it up...) for tonight and perhaps the coming days as this activity was part of a triple coronal mass ejection,
https://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=08&month=10&year=2024 (More images in the night sky thread...)
