#aurorae

Heads up, folks!

ETA: See also ongoing assessments from the NOAA Space Weather site.

(And the ESA Space Weather page has some useful stuff.)

Shining Down, May 2024

Disclaimer: while this is not my photo, it was taken by a relative of mine (my own photos of that night are still being processed and this was a phone photo).

Nonetheless I choose to post this because (a) it's a great photo, (b) it's London, (c) it conveys what I want to say below.

It feels thematically more like Christmas (and indeed an alternative title I was going to give it was Christmas In May), but with the illumination of the tree and the lines of the aurora, it feels like a divine light shining down on the scene, which is appropriate to post today, because Happy Easter!

Oddly enough, when I was younger, I used to have the mistaken idea that Christmas was the more important Christian holiday, just like I used to think that Eid al-Fitr was more important to Muslims (it's Eid al-Adha).

𝔄𝔲𝔯𝔬𝔯𝔞𝔢 (𝔗𝔯𝔦𝔭𝔱𝔶𝔨𝔬𝔫)

𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡 𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔴𝔞𝔯 𝔒𝔣 𝔪𝔦𝔰𝔢𝔯𝔶 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔭𝔞𝔦𝔫 𝔄 𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔏𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔯𝔦𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔢𝔞

𝔄 𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔴𝔞𝔶

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔞𝔤𝔬𝔫𝔶 𝔘𝔫𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔟𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔢 ℭ𝔞𝔩𝔪 𝔯𝔦𝔳𝔞𝔩𝔰 𝔣𝔢𝔞𝔯 𝔒𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔥 𝔟𝔢𝔫𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥

𝔄 𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔴𝔞𝔶

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔦𝔰𝔢𝔯𝔶 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔡𝔞𝔶𝔰 𝔄 𝔩𝔦𝔣𝔢 𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔢𝔡 𝔯𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔠𝔱 𝔑𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔢𝔩𝔰𝔢 𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔰

𝔄 𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔱 𝔴𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔴𝔞𝔶

𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔰𝔢 𝔟𝔬𝔫𝔢𝔰 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔟𝔲𝔯𝔫𝔢𝔡 𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔞𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔰𝔥𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔱 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔱𝔬𝔬𝔩𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔰𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔬𝔴 𝔠𝔞𝔰𝔱 ℌ𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔟𝔢𝔠𝔬𝔪𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔭𝔞𝔰𝔱