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Aurora
Nov 8, 2004 3:41:48 GMT -5
Post by puppie96 on Nov 8, 2004 3:41:48 GMT -5
We had aurora tonight. Bright, beams, curtains, an arc that shifted, greenish blue, a pink cloud. It's probably still going on.
Other than a faint and brief glimpse 2 years ago, this is the first time we've ever seen it. I am in awe.
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Aurora
Nov 8, 2004 3:53:29 GMT -5
Post by sandsman1 on Nov 8, 2004 3:53:29 GMT -5
i have never seen it in person but i seen pics,, looks like a must see before---- i draw my terminal breath dado-- dado ---dadodadodado ----- and now for something compleatly diferent ----hahaha
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deepsouth
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Nov 8, 2004 4:48:17 GMT -5
Post by deepsouth on Nov 8, 2004 4:48:17 GMT -5
Congratulations Puppies, Yes it is a wondeful thing to see. We are lucky here in the deep south that there are no cities anywhere near to spoil the views on a dark night. A few months ago I saw the best ones yet. My son Theo told me that the southern lights were active.
Jack
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Aurora
Nov 8, 2004 7:58:30 GMT -5
Post by stonedagain on Nov 8, 2004 7:58:30 GMT -5
From what I understand, they're supposed to be more spectacular tonight! Keep your eyes to the northeastern horizon.
I have, unfortunately, never seen them even after having lived a few years in the northwestern portions of Michigan's Upper Peninsula! I am very anxious to check them out tonight.
Rhonda
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Aurora
Nov 8, 2004 13:46:01 GMT -5
Post by BearCreekLapidary on Nov 8, 2004 13:46:01 GMT -5
The Aurora ...
I first seen them on an elk hunting trip in 1988 on Sleepy Cat Mountain, in Colorado.
They were bright red with orange and green as secondary hues. As a matter of fact I got my sleeping bag and set up my chair outside of the tent and watched them well into the early morning hours.
I have not seen them since ... they are beautiful and not nearly as common as I wish they were ... at least where I am now living!
Enjoy,
John
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shorty
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Aurora
Nov 8, 2004 13:53:20 GMT -5
Post by shorty on Nov 8, 2004 13:53:20 GMT -5
hi all i sen a glimps of them last nite between snow clods and rain haha its suposte to be better tonite . i sen them once when i was in alaska there scarey when you are that close to it ...kinda low key here in northern michigan ....puppies how is your dad havent herd let us now
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Aurora
Nov 8, 2004 18:16:24 GMT -5
Post by docone31 on Nov 8, 2004 18:16:24 GMT -5
Where I was, the aurora would light up the sky! It would go on for hours at a time. The ice crystals would fall out of the starlight sky, the aurora would make the ice crystals fire different colours. With 20-22hrs of dark, the aurora was a welcome diversion. After a while it would get old as it would prevent sleeping. The first time I saw one, it looked like a curtain waving back and forth, going from ghost green to off violet. It went on for hours. I do miss the north.
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Aurora
Nov 8, 2004 20:57:09 GMT -5
Post by Cher on Nov 8, 2004 20:57:09 GMT -5
They can be spectacular if it's not too cold out to go watching them. I have stayed up for hours on nights during the summer watching them though. They were pretty last night but there's clouds tonight so probably can't see them anyway.
Cher
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Aurora
Nov 8, 2004 21:45:54 GMT -5
Post by docone31 on Nov 8, 2004 21:45:54 GMT -5
Where I saw them, it was -65 without windchill. We lived outside. To amuse ourselves, we would try to make yellow snow. It turned into yellow ice crystals before it hit the ground. You know, the cold was fierce. Sleep was more like controlled passing out, the darkness re-evaluated our internal clocks. It would take an hour to heat the fire, melt enough snow to make coffee, and another half hour to perk, if you could call it that. The fire would start drips coming off the ceiling of our snow cave, the hot coffee would burn. But, big but, I wouldn't trade one minute of it to have seen the lights, nature, and dealt with the environment head on. I suffer today still, but it was worth it, every minute. I have memories few have. It was an advenure like none other.
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Aurora
Nov 9, 2004 2:41:17 GMT -5
Post by puppie96 on Nov 9, 2004 2:41:17 GMT -5
Shorty, I think you are mixing me up with somebody else; my dad didn't have a problem. I'm the one in St.Louis, so aurora is definitely an event! I've never been far enough north at the right time of year to see it.
I've been trying to see it since forever and for once, it isn't cloudy or rainy and was bright enough to be easily visible in suburban light. The way I read the forecasts, tonight was a lower probability night, but that should increase tomorrow SOMETIME -- the deciding factor will be whether the next stream blows by during your local day or nighttime hours, basically. In any event it's looking at least fair for the next few days, then the big sunspot causing all this will be rotating around to the back of the sun and it will end.
3 years ago it was cloudy for the predicted Leonid storm so we drove east until we got out from under the clouds and ended up nearly to Indiana. I was hanging my head out the window to check out the cloud cover when I saw the first ones going zingzingzing right overhead -- it was so amazing I laughed and laughed, like there they are! We counted well over a thousand in a couple of hours in a cornfield. It was just continuous activity. So cool. I'll be out again tomorrow night for aurora. Tonight seems quiet.
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Aurora
Nov 9, 2004 3:41:48 GMT -5
Post by rollingstone on Nov 9, 2004 3:41:48 GMT -5
I was clouded out on Sunday (Monday too), but here's how they looked at my bro's place, out in the sticks, a bit south of Ottawa, Canada.
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Aurora
Nov 9, 2004 13:55:48 GMT -5
Post by rollingstone on Nov 9, 2004 13:55:48 GMT -5
Oh yeah, to give proper photo credit...picture taken by Little Rollingstone
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Aurora
Nov 9, 2004 15:47:45 GMT -5
Post by krazydiamond on Nov 9, 2004 15:47:45 GMT -5
AMAZING photo!!! looks like a totally different planet or the cover of a Stepen King book or something...
we saw them once a few years ago up here (central NY) but never anything light that!
KD
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Aurora
Nov 9, 2004 16:20:23 GMT -5
Post by shorty on Nov 9, 2004 16:20:23 GMT -5
im sorey i did get youmixed up with bcbuney sorey
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Aurora
Nov 9, 2004 22:07:06 GMT -5
Post by rollingstone on Nov 9, 2004 22:07:06 GMT -5
I'm pretty far north, central Alberta, but there are some amazing auroral curtains going on right now, maybe they are getting farther south too?
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Aurora
Nov 9, 2004 22:31:56 GMT -5
Post by Cher on Nov 9, 2004 22:31:56 GMT -5
It's warmer tonight so would be good to watch but it's all clouded over. Cher
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Aurora
Nov 10, 2004 0:48:01 GMT -5
Post by puppie96 on Nov 10, 2004 0:48:01 GMT -5
Great photo, good job by the pebble. We've got clouds, too, darn it, the conditions are stormy again and there have been mid latitude sightings this evening. I'm gonna go out again and check, though, just in case -- the clouds are scattered a bit.
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Nov 10, 2004 12:35:46 GMT -5
Post by deepsouth on Nov 10, 2004 12:35:46 GMT -5
That's a beautiful foto from pebblestone, thanks for showing !!!
And yes it is happening here in the deep south too, so I read in this mornings news paper haha . I was asleep already so could not see it when it started by 10 pm . Must have been barely dark enough though.
There were fantastic flashing white streams of light showing , starting in the south-east.
Jack
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