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The POES plots are a prediction of auroral activity based on proton flux (lots of red = good chance).
If the KP index gets above 5 there's a lot of magnetic fluctuation going on, which is an indicator of auroral activity.
Also, when you join the yahoo group shown in Fringey's post above you'll get a paper explaining the relevance of the inter planetary magnetic field graph.
The source for each of the graphs usually has an explanation on their web pages, just takes a bit of surfing and reading.
In layman's terms look towards the poles (south for most of us), midnight is supposed to be the best time, but I have seen storms peak earlier, just depends when the CME (coronal mass ejection) arrives. Even when I saw one peak at 9pm, there was still a second brightening around midnight.
Last edited by Vermin; 27-05-2005 at 06:32 PM.
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