Greetings, everyone,
Yes, I know, this has not much to do with FT/SG2/DS2, but I thought
I would share this with y'all on the off-chance that some of you
out there would be interested in seeing this.
Right now, as I type, there is a **major** auroral storm blazing in the upper
atmosphere over our planet. It apparently started at 3am (Eastern Standard
TIme, U.S.) this morning, and is *still* going on. It is reaching as far south
as the northern edge of Africa, and some reports say in some areas people can
see it *through* the clouds. IF
this storm continues unabated for another 6+ hours, most of you in the
U.S will have a chance to see it, starting about 40 or so minutes after sunset
(the sky will likely be too bright to see it prior to that). For
those of you in Europe - GO OUTSIDE NOW!!
A good webpage to check this out is at:
http://www.spacew.com/www/aurora.html
Look at the 6th image down to get an idea of how big this storm is cranking.
Other, general information on the current storm (as well as line plots of the
magnetic field) are here:
http://www.spacew.com/
(to have the best chance for an aurora to occur, the "Bz" number has to be
high to the "South"; otherwise with the way Earth's magnetic field interacts
with the Sun's, high Bz number to the "North" usually means almost no aurora
will be visible)
Just a quick fyi. Keep your fingers cross this will keep powering along until
it is well past dark in your area. If you try to take
any photos, time exposures of 5-20 seconds should work fine for you.
Mk
Couldn't see a thing. Probably too much light pollution, living 1 mile south
of Glasgow International airport probably doesn't help that!
Thomas
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> On 20 Nov 2003 at 19:28, Thomas Heaney wrote:
> Couldn't see a thing. Probably too much light pollution, living 1 mile
Tell me about it. Lovely north facing hill in the park opposite my
flat. Shame that the north it faces is the majority of London. :-(
Whoa, guys, I thought there's better watching the later you can look.
Don't give up; I haven't, and I'm half way across the US!
The_Beast
I had another look and luckily there was a break in the clouds to the south
and east. I managed to catch a bit of the sky turning various shades of red.
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> Doug Evans wrote:
A mistake I made during the last auroral storm a couple weeks ago. :-/
Hope some of you guys got to see it. I saw it from the Baltimore region
glowing red and pale green from 7p to 8:45p when it faded to a faint red glow.
Heard it had been going on long before that. Got some photos I'll be putting
out for interested people to see
(once I finish the film, develop it, and scan the pics in - yes,
I still live in the primitive "film age" ;-)
To bring some topical remarks to this message, going to be doing a DSII game
this weekend. John Lerchey from Pittsburgh is coming into town as well as Mike
Hudak. See if we can't make some Big
Tanks go Boom! :-)
If you ask nicely, most developers will supply your film on CD as well for
about AU$5.00. Or they do here in Australia, anyway.
Brendan
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> "Robertson, Brendan" wrote:
That's an option here, too, but...they don't scane 'em in at as high a
resolution as I'd like. The old saying, "if you want something done
right, gotta do it yourself" (or something like that ;-)
Mk