09/04/2026
Last night's sky over Orléans didn't look like much to the naked eye — quiet-to-unsettled Kp all night, no storm watch, nothing dramatic on the forecast. But the camera tells a different story. From about 10 pm to nearly 4 am, a steady green glow builds across the sky, catching the underside of clouds early on and washing out into open, star-filled sky later. This is the thing about living where we do: Orléans sits close enough to the southern edge of the auroral oval that the Reolink picks up activity most nights, even ones that look "quiet" on paper. A 63% waning gibbous moon rose around 9:30 pm and hung around most of the night, so the fact that the glow still shows up this clearly says something about how sensitive this little security camera really is. No major solar drivers this session — a single M3.0 flare from newcomer region AR4524 fired off, but its CME is headed away from us. Nothing to see there, just the ambient hum of the solar wind doing its thing.
