Aurora Borealis - Extreme Space Weather!

 

Hokey Smokes, Bullwinkle, check out the Aurora Oval. Oh my goodness, I got the chance to photograph some amazing aurora activity! in fact, the G5 class solar storm extended auroras all the way down to the Florida Keys and Puerto Rico!

The Kp index of 9 shows the magnitude of the geomagnetic storm that we are bombarded by from the Sun! 

Sunspot group AR3664 sent out 6 coronal mass ejections that converged to disrupt Earth's magnetic field! This spawned crazy aurora activity. By the way, Sunspot 3664 is the about the size of 15 Earths.

Here is a chart telling of the aurora colors and the elements creating them.