Red alert: aurora likely.

It is likely that aurora will be visible by eye and camera from anywhere
in the UK. Viewing aurora requires clear, dark skies away from light
pollution.
To monitor current activity see http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk.

Issued 2016-08-23 13:25 UTC (14:25 BST) by AuroraWatch UK using SAMNET
LAN2 data from Lancaster, UK.

Ooh, cheers for that. Will have the camera looked out 🙂

booo.

Manual override for red alert.
There is a local disturbance at our Lancaster magnetometer – this is not related to the aurora. Apologies for the inconvenience and we’ll let you know when fixed.

Manual override for red alert.

Are they trying to communicate?

According to the latest email. Disturbance was caused by a lawnmower….

The official line is….

We apologise for the earlier false alert (issued 13:25 UTC today) which
was caused by a lawnmower creating a local disturbance at our Lancaster
site. For more information please see
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/aurorawatchuk/2016/08/23/red-alert-cancelled/

The AuroraWatch UK team

Update: we believe the interference was caused by University staff mowing the grass on a sit-on mower. We’ll work with the facilities team to try and avoid an incident such as this occuring in the future!

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