Your identifications help us to study the occurrence, frequency and favourable conditions for different types of aurora to occur. From this, we can build a database of different structures present at different times. 

Unusual aurora flagged in the ‘talk’ forum highlight interesting events to us. 

We compare this data with other sensory data recorded at the same time to better understand why these structures are created. 

Without your help, we wouldn’t be able to do this type of research.