Last night

We had a big power outage here in Fairbanks. All of the aurorawebcam.com webcams where taken offline. Here is the offical story from the local paper.

 The last week or so

 I have been tracking a bug from the webcam server. This webcam bug will stop the camera and not let it restart. I have contacted my hosting providor and tomorrow we are going to test a few more solutions. This bug is diffrent from the "no input found" error that will happen when you try to changes pages on the website. (which i believe maybe 99% fixed??)

 As always

 I'm looking for error reports under this topic here in the forums. Please give as much detail as you can. What internet browser are using, how often it happens, and how to reproduce the error if you know how.

More news to come soon. -Troy

Last night we had a pretty good aurora. Though the aurora was visible from around 11:30pm AK time on the 31st. The real action did not start until around 1am (AK time) on the 1st.  The time lapse video from the 31st -1st is posted on the archive section of the site under Wednesday. Or you can just watch the video below. I did not have time to post any aurora alerts in the forums since I had around 50 aurora viewers to entertain at the ski lodge.  You can subscibe to the "Aurora Alert Topic" here on the forums. Anyone is welcome to post alerts. -Troy

On a side note. I was able to rescue all of the routers/ access points below from the "Operation Router Rescuse" post below.

The time lapse videos for  Sunday and Saterday have both been cut short. This is due to the fact I keep messing with the computer while the program is running. I believe I have everything worked out and this should no longer be an issue. ( i hope! ) -Troy

  Brrr it is cold here in Fairbanks. They said on the news tonight that they recorded -53F at the airport this morning here in Fairbanks! Today I decided to take some time and look at some of my archived video footage. I was able to discover the earliest recorded aurora that I have ever seen. July 11th 2011 was the date. It is common to hear of the aurora in August. Not so common to hear of it in July. At some point here in the next few weeks I plan on making a few videos from this footage for the site.

  Today was also "Operation Router Rescue" I run a very extensive network on the hill. The network includes my webcams, Mt. Aurora Fairbanks creek lodge, my mom and dads old house and Skiland. My current network has 2 routers, 6 access points, 5 large wifi antennas, one IP camera, 2 wifi networks and about 10 computers. Over the years I have gathered up a bunch of routers and access points that refuse to work properly. Today I made a last ditch effort to restore as many as I could for future failure replacements. Below is a few photos of my router operations. I'm using Linux ubuntu to try to restore the firmware via tftp. More news to come soon. -Troy

Below is a time lapse video of the Aurora Australis taken by one of our members ausdave. You can give feedback to this video on the forums.  A few days ago I posted some simely sun photos. I didn't notice that one of the images had a typo on it. (2011)  I have posted a new image with the porper date. Today on the 27th of Jan. Nasa reports of a X-class solar flare that was not earth directed. They said that there is a small chance that this flare could spark some type of solar activity on the 2nd of Febuary.