Willowbank
Observatory, Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, Scotland
Near real-time auroral-warning
magnetometer, local weather and webcam
power outage 24/11/24 ~17:50 - magnetometer glitch; SID system manuall restarted 09:30 25/11/24
Simple Auroral Magnetometer (SAM)
Click for yesterday's magnetometer graph (opens in a new window)
Detailed reports and records are here
The weather observations are made with a Davis Vantage Pro 2 system. The Webcam is a Logitech 9000 Pro.
All times are in UTC (add 1h for British Summer Time). The software used is Weather Display v10.37.
The SAM
magnetometer is designed to give advance warning of possible auroral activity.
Disturbances of K = 5 or more on the graph signal
there may be such activity. More information about viewing the aurora can be
found here. More details about the magnetometer are here.
The system has been modified to allow use of a third fluxgate sensor,
allowing measurement of both E-W, N-S and vertical components.
Data from my Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID) receivers and Cosmic Ray Muon monitor is here.
These web-pages are always under development and will be subject to changes, or be taken off-line from time to time. More details of the instruments can be found here.
Comments or suggestions for changes are welcome. Please send them to me at : [email protected]
