Wowee! It's been a crazy couple of days in terms of magnetic activity and Aurora! The storm, caused by the Earth moving through a coronal mass ejection peaked with a Kp value of 8 and has been the strongest geomagnetic storm of the current solar cycle. The storm put on a dazzling show reaching down as far as Kansas! Here's are the first batch of pictures that have been shared (plus some more from recent activity!). If you've shared images with us, don't worry, there'll be more posts on this one! Thanks go to John Andersen, Theresa Tanner, Leo Kokoh, Anna Basa, Kamalesh Maram, Mike Isaak, Natalia Korzhenevska, Joern Rohde, Joseph Chen, Michael Bisaga, Zoltan Kenwell, Bruce Smith, Christian Hering, Danelle Wiebe, Drew May, Isabell Hubert, Koushik Pal, Paul Zizka, Peter Stahl, Roshan Achal, Sharif Galal, and Walter Kardel.

Thanks to everyone who keeps sending in images. Here are some truely magical images from recent displays!
Thanks go to Juan Pablo Gonzalez Guzman, Jeff Wallace, PJ and Claudia Potgieser, John Andersen, Stan Cholak, Paul Janovec, Dav Martinson, Koushik Pal, Leonard Bevaart, Brad Russell, Theresa Tanner, Corey M., John P Andersen, Udo Schoppe, Glenn Blackett, Denise Chambers, Roberta Bremner, Thakur Dalip Singh, William Vavrek, Rob Westhouse, Rita Collinson, Susan Wilde, Masaru Shibata, Sean Rooney, Ryan Smith and Jenna Bouma, Mike Isaak, Redawna Kalynchuk, and Mary Ann Jose.

Exciting times! We're on the eve of a pretty cool CME event and to whet your appetite for a potential display, here are some simply spectacular images shared over the last couple of months! Thanks go to david Baxter, Zoltan Kenwell, Mike Isaak, Mary Ann Janzen, Patrick Monaghan, Adam Taylor, Theresa Tanner, William Lefort, Sean Trostem, Tracy Holland, Lee Nordbye, Hugo Sanchez, Christy Turner, Rob Westhouse, Marko Woite, Stan Cholak and Claudia and PJ Potgieser.