Grayskies

Today the sun had a big burp. In fact a huge burb. Almost hitting the highest scale measurement on the graph. A solar activity graph which measures the scale of a solar erruption, is guaged through a KP index. The strength of the KP index is on a scale of 1 to 9.
1 being - yeah ok so the sun is yawning, to 9 meaning - where do we run to?
This afternoon it hit a whopping 8.4
Meaning it will send a huge electro magnetic pulse our way.
Well Elon Musk. Be prepared to lose a few of your LEOS.
What else does this mean? Well, interruptions to radio, TV, and other comms.
But on the bright side, we may experience some good Aurora Australis. If you want to know what that is, easily search the web for “Aurora Australis”.
Further to this I have provided a link for anyone who is interested in seeing why Aurora’s are created and not only that, how we on this Earth are protected by our atmosphere and our internal magnetic field. It goes for about 4 minutes but well worth the time. Enjoy.

Space Weather and Earth's Aurora Aurora are colorful lights in the night time sky primarily appearing in Earth's polar regions. But what causes them? The culprit behind aurora is our own Sun...

This week our sun has been furocious. Only a small window of opportunity to image it this week due to clouds and bad seeing.
This demonstrates the power it can unleash. Dominating with sunspot cluster in the middle, measuring approx 280,000km across.
Just a side note to this, try and comprehend this…. According to a Solar statistical App I have, the solar “winds” that have ejected from these, have reached a velocity of 717kms per second.
This was captured on Tuesday, 7th May, with my dedicated solar imaging filter on the lens

This following edit was added Saturday evening 11th May……
Well, our sun, did indeed impress. As a result of this large area of turbulence, planet earth experienced one of its largest coverage and intense aurora in quite a long time. Providing both Northern and Southern hemispheres with a dazzling display of colours.