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Matt Gray
Broadcast engineer who dabbles in photography, video and web stuff.
Northerner based in London.
Broadcast engineer who dabbles in photography, video and web stuff.
Northerner based in London.
Monday 23rd January 2012
This map shows where in the UK, USA, Canada or South Africa twitter users report to be able to see the Northern Lights.
To contribute, you need to post a message to twitter conforming to the following style:
Tweet the hashtag; your 5 digit US zip code, 4 digit South African post code, full Canadian post code or first part of UK postcode; and how easily you can see aurora out of 10 eg:
10/10 = You can't miss it; 6/10 = Visible from a dark area of town;
3/10 = Visible out of town or to a trained eye; 0/10 = Not visible.
If you don't format your tweet as above, then it can't be added to the map unfortunately
Map Key:
Red Cross = No Visibility;
Solid yellow splodge = High Visibility. Click the icon to see the tweet.
New tweets are pulled in every minute. Click the blobs on the map to read the full tweets
Blank map? No tweets? That means either no-one's tweeting their postcode yet, or for some reason your web browser doesn't like the map. Try viewing the page in Google Chrome
If you have any questions about aurorae, Liz MacDonald (@spaceyliz), a professional space scientist, may be able to help!
#Aurora Map formatted tweets are being used for research in the fields of space science and social computing
Having seen a lot of talk on twitter about the solar activity, and questions about how south an aurora may be visible, I put this together by modifying Ben Marsh's original UK Snow Map code.
This is how it should look when visible aurorae are being reported
