On the night of May 15th 2026 at 11:39pm, I was lucky enough to capture the International Space Station appearing to fly right through the aurora. The other streaks are other various satellites. Taken in Central NY using a Nikon Z5ii. 15 second exposure, f4.5, and 3200 ISO
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Imagery from the satellite solar orbiter (SOLO) shows a very active and large active region on the farside of the Sun. We can see that it hasn’t been super eruptive yet and there hasn’t been any large farside CMEs yet but it has produced multiple X-Class flares according to SOLO’s STIX. This spot should start to crest the incoming limb in 3-4 days! Timeframe is from May 14th to May 17th and is in 304 Ångstroms.
Very cool to see the northern M flare destabilize the southern flux rope into a second M flare.
CMEs are weak and slow, thou. Won't be much for geomagnetic storming. Something like a ten minute drizzle.
No sign of the object in the 06:42 5/14/26 frame, appears in the 06:54 5/14/26 frame and then in the following 07:06 5/14/26 frame it’s gone again.
Any ideas?
Not as robust as we would have hoped, yet still a beautiful eruption, front and center for our viewing pleasure.
Thanks to the SDO AIA team!
A large coronal hole is located right at the solar equator which means the solar wind stream will likely have a significant influence on the solar wind environment around our planet.
I captured three substorms during this auroral display but this one at 10:40pm was easily the strongest. The event was triggered by a small, negative polarity coronal hole, and the mostly southward Bz was likely enhanced by the Russell-McPherron effect, helping push the aurora farther south than expected, especially during substorms. Captured using a Nikon Z5ii and a 24-50mm Nikkor lens
Not Earth directed, this time.
4436 has a few days before it is pointed right at us.