Monday, June 3, 2013

Aurora from unknown source on June 1st


On the evening of 31-May-2013 I had noticed Ace proton levels appeared to ramping up similar to what happens just before a bow wave of energy from a typical flare or CME solar event.  But there were no significant flares or coronal holes that would have caused the increase.  So I continued to monitor and sure enough, the KP indices shot up and with the IMF Bz pointing deep south, I could tell we were in for a geomagnetic storm.  Below are a few of the pictures I got from this event on the morning of June 1.  Scientist are still struggling to understand exactly what caused this event.






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