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      11-08-2017, 01:39 PM   #11203
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Originally Posted by dcstep View Post
Very nice, indeed.

I'm hoping that I luck out in January, when I visit Northern Canada to shoot owls. We'll be on the edge of the arctic, so all I need is a little luck with solar activity.

Alan, do you have a resource that you use to estimate likelihood?
Thanks Dave, good luck with your trip. Even though we are moving away from 'Solar Max', auroral activity remains good and strong. Up here in North East Scotland, although we have plenty of good, dark skies, bad weather / heavy cloud often spoils our chances.

A couple of good sites that I use and are equally suitable for North America viewers are -

http://spaceweather.com/
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/au...inute-forecast

There are another couple of sites that work well for us here in the UK and Mainland Europe, they are -

http://www.aurora-service.eu/aurora-forecast/
http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/

I'm sure there will be similar sites across your side of the pond.
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