Category: News
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A spectacular night for auroras
On Friday the 11th of October 2024, several of the magnetometers in the Solar Tsunamis MANA network recorded a very strong geomagnetic disturbance in the wake of a large Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) emitted from the Sun a few days before. The plots below show the strength of the horizontal magnetic field during the storm…
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Solar Tsunamis meeting with Firstgas – 2024
On 19-20 of August, the Solar Tsunamis team had their annual meeting with Firstgas in New Plymouth. Malcolm Ingham and Tim Divett from Victoria University of Wellington have been working closely with Firstgas to model the response of gas pipeline network electrical systems to Geomagnetically Induced Currents (GICs) caused by space weather, and they shared…
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Solar Tsunamis on the big… round… screen!
As part of their work on Solar Tsunamis outreach and engagement, the team at Tūhura Otago Museum has been working with artists at Ariki Creative and animation director Oana Jones (University of Canterbury) to develop a planetarium show. It had its first screenings at MOTAT in Auckland last month, and will be heading to Papakura…
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Solar Tsunamis roadshow and talks at MOTAT
The Museum of Transport and Technology in Auckland started hosting the Solar Tsunamis roadshow from Saturday 15 June 2024. They also had a “Weather Day” on Sunday 16 June 2024, and Dr Johnny Malone-Leigh and Craig Rodger travelled to MOTAT to give public talks on aurora and space weather. They met up with Marijn Kouwenhoven…
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Recent field work
Swampy Summit Trip – 21st March 2024 James and Johnny went up to Swampy Summit to diagnose and fix issues with the magnetometer, VLF antenna and riometer. The magnetometer was picking up vibrations from wind, which they suspected was due to a flax plant growing out of the side of the chamber. Since the magnetometer…
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A big weekend for the Solar Tsunamis team!
This blog is reproduced from the Otago Physics Department. Check the link for the latest updates. Above: An earlier photo of an aurora in Dunedin, courtesy of Ian Griffin An extremely large “G5” geomagnetic storm occurred on Saturday 11 May 2024, leading to widespread aurora seen all over the country and all over the globe.…
