Northern boreales in France for the start of the school year on September 2? It’s possible!

We have spent the maximum solar, which is the period in an 11 -year cycle when the sun is most likely to emit waves of particles causing the northern lights on earth. However, it is always possible to have great surprises. The predictions are extremely difficult in the matter, but everything suggests that we will live an episode of magnetic storm on earth between today and the day after tomorrow.

Of course, the whole question is whether it will be powerful enough to enter our sky with its fantastic pink and green gleams – that’s what we will see. Let’s start with the manager: the sun. On the image below, we observe the solar spot 4199, where the eruption (class M 2.7 for connoisseurs) is gone. It is therefore a fairly large coronal mass ejection, but above all directed right on our planet.

An alert bulletin has just been launched by the NOOA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) concerning 18 American states with latitudes comparable to ours. The current prediction, which can be found on Spaceweatherlive.comis a magnetic storm of 3 out of 4 and a KP index of 6 to 7 (out of 9) under our latitudes. Is that enough to take full mirettes? It is certainly a bit tight, but these are still interesting values.

In fact, to see something naked, the magnetic storm would have to be 4 and the KP index at 8, even 9, as in October. In this articlewe gave all the details to understand what it is.

Watch the sky to the north tonight and scrutinize the potential boreales

The weather should also be there. Indeed, if there are clouds, it is damn, because the northern lights occur in general at 80 km altitude, while our clouds are under 10 km. You will have to choose a place where the north horizon is clear. If necessary, make sure to the large piping of the large piping, always in the north and easily recognizable. If the clues ever became favorable, we will publish an update of this article.

To succeed in photos of northern borealis, you need a device capable of capturing light for several seconds (that is to say with an elongated shutter time) and a night/astronomy mode.

You can also follow the developments on the accounts X And Bluesky of the author of these lines or on XPloraFor example.

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