Eyes to the north tonight. Big geomagnetic storm in progress. Not quite as big as last May, but big. Aurora ought to visible to mid-latitudes. Radio freaks, 6 meters should be good, beam straight north.
Regards
Jim
Hi Jim,
It was a good night.
I now I have my 2 Weather Cams mounted on my roof :
1 - The Original facing East by South over the Tasman Sea ( basically towards NZ from Beaumaris Tasmania ).
2 - The new one facing South from Beaumaris over Scamander township ( basically towards Antarctica ).
Note: Scamander causes some Light Pollution ( South ), though so does the Local Fishing boats out on the Eastern side (big spotlights on water) !
Note : Both are the same models:
4 K ColorVu ( Low-Light ) Fixed Bullet Network Camera by hikvision.com.
Hikvision DS-2CD2T87G2-L 4K 8MP Gen2 ColorVu Bullet Camera with Acusense 60m White LED 2.8mm
High quality ( Low-Light ) imaging, 2.8 mm: horizontal FOV102°, vertical FOV 52°, diagonal FOV 124°
I have scripted both of them to fully auto capture images/time-lapse and upload to my weather site, we captured some fairly good footage early this morning 
and really happy with them.
Here in Tasmania, this mornings event occurred after around 03:00 AEDT Friday 11-Oct-2024 or ( 16:00 UTC Thursday 10-Oct-2024 ).
Links below : Note : scroll down on the later pages to see last 7 odd day achieved Time-Lapses.
1 - Collection of ( Main Aurora Only ) time-lapses :
https://beaumaris-weather.com/AuroraTimelapse/auroras/?d=2024-10-11
2 - South Camera Page ( Saratoga/PC ) :
https://beaumaris-weather.com/wxwebcamtimelapsesouth.php
3 - South Camera Page ( CMX/Mobile ) :
https://beaumaris-weather.com/BWX/webcamsouth.php
4 - East Camera page ( Saratoga/PC ) :
https://beaumaris-weather.com/wxwebcamtimelapse.php
5 - East Camera page ( CMX/Mobile ) :
https://beaumaris-weather.com/BWX/webcam.php
On the New Southern Camera, I capture images in 5 second intervals, so way to hard to pick a best of the night, so just picked a random one to show here. Oh and thanks to CMX our 1 minute updated local weather conditions are also over-layed on every image used in the time-lapse videos . Oh and when viewing the East by South Cam, you may see the Gum Tree in front of us light up ( that mostly happens during those hours, when my solar sensor lights at the front gate are set off by pesky rabbits trying to enter the property ).
Regards Image below :
1 : Top mounted Cam is facing ( East by South - original ).
2 : Bottom mounted Cam is facing ( South - new ).
Oh and Tonight looks possibly better !
Kindest Regards,
Tony
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Wow nice Chris. at least you captured it.
May prove to be bigger tonight, time will tell.
Kindest Regards,
Tony
Theirs a comet to spot as well over the weekend
The comet will be most visible from Sunday and will fade out of view by the end of the month.
Unfortunately it’s forecast to be much cloudier tonight 
Even in central North Carolina the aurora was visible, but not with the naked eye - only with a camera. Might try again tonight with a tripod.
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Forecast for tonight doesn’t looks good. KP Index was 8 last night but it’s only forecast to reach 5.3 tonight (about midnight UK time). That would give an aurora but it’s not likely to be visible far enough south to be seen anywhere in the UK.
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The aurora was so faint the next night it could barely be seen even by the camera.
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