A live orgy filmed when they were in orbit would have been worth watching. 

I did look but there was too much light pollution here. This SpaceWeather shot is good. Minnesota.

https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=222079 

You seem to inhabit a strange mental universe of dangling limbs and floating fluids, Beast. It keeps you out of trouble, I suppose. 🙄

This was the picture I managed to get, posted on the Weather Gallery here on TWO

Some faint pillars, pleasing none the less. That's three times in the last year that I have had the pleasure of seeing Aurora in the UK.

https://spaceweather.com/ 

https://spaceweathergallery2.com/index.php?title=aurora 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/ce840rlve0eo 

May get lucky this evening as that seems to be our only clear slot, after this evening it's looking cloudy for the next two nights.

https://spaceweather.com/ 

Image

https://spaceweather.com/images2025/27apr25/eclipse_strip.jpg 

https://spaceweather.com/ 

"You've heard of the 11-year sunspot cycle. But what about the Centennial Gleissberg Cycle? The Gleissberg Cycle is a slower 100-year modulation of sunspots. New research just published in the journal Space Weather suggests that the Gleissberg Cycle is waking up again, which could make solar cycles for the next 50 years increasingly intense."

https://spaceweather.com/ 

"Solar eclipses aren't just for homo sapiens. Researchers have long known that birds, insects, and many other mammals pay attention when the Moon slides in front of the sun. Now we can add trees to the list."

Partial eclipse on Oct. 25, 2022:  Electrical signals inside spruce trees began to pulse in unison, with older trees seeming to anticipate the eclipse before it happened.

See: "The Electric Forest"

https://spaceweather.com/ 

"After weeks of calm, solar activity is suddenly high again. Since yesterday, the sun has produced two X-class solar flares and multiple strong M-flares. So far, Earth has been on the outer edge of the strike zone, but this could change in the days ahead as the exploding sunspot turns to face our planet."

https://spaceweather.com/ 

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

.Now I read: "STRONG GEOMAGNETIC STORM: A co-rotating interaction region (CIR) hit Earth today, sparking a strong geomagnetic storm. At the apex of the event, bright auroras appeared over Canada, the USA, and New Zealand. It's not over! Storming is expected to continue for the rest of the day. Full story @ Spaceweather.com.

So have a look: there is a splendid photo from Ely, Minnesota.

https://spaceweather.com/ 

Absolutely stunning - even without the aurora!

Ely is home to the International Wolf Center, which I went to in 1999 with my mum and dad - my first proper trip to the USA. It's a wonderful facility, with a giant "log cabin" appearance, and the sort of thing the wolf centre I go to aspired to. A fun thing happened on the way to it, though; while driving along highway 169 (their equivalent of a B-road, i.e. wide and massive compared to ours) we saw a sign for mini golf a mile down the road.

Amongst the endless woods there was a single house, with a big driveway. The guy had laid out a crazy golf course, a proper one, in his garden, and we had a go for a couple of bucks each (with free Coke and bug spray provided). While we were playing, the guy said "what brings you to Minnesota?", so we explained about the wolf centre - and enthused about how lovely the trees and lakes were. He took them all for granted, and found it hard to believe foreigners like us found the scenery so beautiful!

Minnesotan cars have "Land of 10000 Lakes" on their number plates, and it's for good reason.

Yes, I know it well. My relatives live in Iowa, just below, but Minnesota has a lot of beautiful lakes and mountains. Also a very liberal state, one of the few that didnt vote for Reagan in the 84 landslide (the only proper landslide in US political history)

"A CME is heading straight for Earth--see below. A NASA model predicts it will strike Earth during the early hours of June 1st. The impact could spark strong (G3-class) geomagnetic storms with auroras at mid-latitudes."

SpaceWeather

https://spaceweather.com/ 

AuroraWatch UK data:

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

Well you are nearly in the Arctic, DrM! Watch the data. Maybe get up.... 😁

🤣

I prefer “sub-Arctic” (and sleep!)

I put my bat detector on the window sill and listen to them from bed. 🦇🦇🦇 

I’ve tried that with the northern lights but it doesn’t work. 🤪

AuroraWatch UK data: reds between 6am and 1pm.

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

Does it work on your new Mayor, Andrea Jenkyns?