I will let you know.... Stake and Mallet ready.

Update: "Yesterday's severe geomagnetic storm produced widespread auroras. In Alberta, Canada, Northern Lights completely filled the sky and even turned the ground green." 

Full story on SpaceWeather:

https://spaceweather.com/ 

We have a Red Alert here: "Auroras likely". Take a look at the data.

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

Alert downgraded since I posted. Now on "Amber". Keep an eye on it.

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

"The storm has continued with few breaks for more than 60 hours--a testament to the power and effectiveness of the CME. This may go down as one of the biggest events of Solar Cycle 25. " See:

https://spaceweather.com/ 

Last night in Glenwood, Washington, Samuel Oas watched the show from the back of a Tacoma:

Image:

https://spaceweather.com/images2025/03jun25/washington_strip.jpg 

😂

it’s these sorts of exchanges that make this place so worthwhile.

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No "seeing" here last night, DrM, but the 55kHz bats we're hellishly noisy [on the detector] - especially towards 4am. They often do some "social flying" before turning in after a night's hunting - but I could still hear numbers of "feeding bursts", so there must have been insects about. I might try the trail cam one night. It sometimes gets lucky.

https://spaceweather.com/ 

Clear skies, you photographers! I am expecting great photos from you.

Full Strawberry Moon this week will be lowest in UK skies since 2006

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/czdym6j6rero 

Maybe with the smoke particles if they are still present, we we see an Apricot Moon instead. 

Not merely low but at its lowest in the sky until 2043

Indeed. I am watching developments on Stellarium and hope to wander out about 10.36pm and see what I can see.

"A G2-class geomagnetic storm is possible on June 14th when a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) is expected to hit Earth's magnetic field."

https://spaceweather.com/ 

Geomagnetic data:

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

The Strawberry moon had a very strawberry like colour to it, last night, as it cleared the rooftops to the southwest with the cloud thin enough to make it visible and appear large as it was not that far above the horizon, this was not long before midnight.

NMA's suggestion of an 'apricot moon' was a good one - certainly more that colour than strawberry. And at about 11pm it was only just clear of the roof tops in the city centre, even  when observed from my second storey bedroom, so definitely lower than I've seen before (or, indeed, ever expect to see).

I read that the term come from Native American usage, as it tends to occur when wild strawberries are ready to pick. Isn't that a nice idea! The fact that dust can make it look a bit strawberrish is an added bonus. 😁 Sadly I did not manage to spot it last night, but I did hear some bats! 

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/strawberry-moon-2025-lowest 

Thanks for highlighting this as I hadn't seen the post. It was a reddish, orange colour last night too, through the clouds at that low angle, I guess some may suggest it was apricot rather than strawberry, I felt it was more a strawberry on it's way to being fully ripe 🙂

I watched it rise but it was a bit hidden by a cloud. I went to bed and was up at 3am to see it sink in a clear sky over the Isle of Portland.

No photos but it looked much the same as the photo below. 

Indeed the Strawberry name I understand comes from the time the local inhabitants of what is today North America called it. 

Strawberry harvest time.

The Sturgeon Moon name for a similar reason and one I watched in Covid times setting in the same way, only this time with the ocean liners taking prime place. That was August. I also caught at that day the sun rising on the ships and the moon setting behind. No one else saw it happen. The pics are also somewhere on TWO.

One of them. Sturgeon Moon.

https://imgur.com/v12o8vX 

Strawberry Moon stuns skies across Yorkshire

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgvx5lz4deo 

"Fair Moon, to thee I sing..." etc.

Amber Alert - maybe.... Doubt the seeing here will be any good.

AuroraWatch UK

https://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/ 

It's in the red zone now, but it's not much cop really... even at midnight GMT (1AM BST) it's not properly dark down here, and before now I've seen the faint glow on the northern horizon in the middle of the night... it'd make seeing the aurora quite difficult even if skies were clear! The further north you are of course the lighter it'll be. I read something as a child that said in Shetland it's still light enough to read a book outside at midnight GMT in the middle of June... whether that's true or not I couldn't say.

The best way to miss an aurora is not to look!

"Arriving earlier than expected, a CIR (co-rotating interaction region) hit Earth's magnetic field on June 13th, sparking a G2-class geomanetic storm. The storm is still underway now, and there is a chance it could intensify to category G3" - but that's for high latitudes. Not me!

https://spaceweather.com/ 

https://spaceweather.com/images2025/13jun25/newyork_strip.jpg 

"Whichever hemisphere you live in -- today is the solstice! For northerners, it is the summer solstice; for southerners, the winter solstice. Northern summer and southern winter begin at precisely the same time: 10:42 p.m. EDT on June 20th (02:42 UTC on June 21st). Happy Solstice!"

Sunspot 4114 did it again. On June 19th at 23:50 UTC, the active region produced another X-class solar flare.

https://spaceweather.com/ 

Intriguing story...

Astronomers detect pulse from satellite that has been dead for decades

https://www.yahoo.com/news/astronomers-detect-pulse-satellite-dead-232622873.html