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am_Unition  ·  960 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Look for a nice aurora on Thursday (April 14)

You should take mk's Geiger counter, especially if you're going to Europe and flying through/near the auroral zone.

Best of luck w/ TSA :(. I think it says "nuclear radiation" somewhere on the device, sooooooo





b_b  ·  960 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Actually it looks like the storm with be Thursday morning. I'm going Thursday-Friday overnight, so I think I'll miss it.

am_Unition  ·  960 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, it's almost always safe to assume forecasts for space weather are in UT.

I'm still going to try to take my counter on my next trans-Atlantic flight, you shouldn't need a storm to see a significantly elevated radiation level at higher altitudes.