Aurora over the pole.........

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celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,394,168 RAC: 994	Message 1136589 - Posted: 6 Aug 2011, 4:33:40 UTC - in response to Message 1136502. Last modified: 6 Aug 2011, 5:18:56 UTC It is still light out and the lights in the sky have started already. It could get all the way down to northern California. Now I am amazed, the whole sky is covered in light. ID: 1136589 ·

celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,394,168 RAC: 994	Message 1136613 - Posted: 6 Aug 2011, 5:31:42 UTC - in response to Message 1136589. This is a night! ID: 1136613 ·

celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,394,168 RAC: 994	Message 1137225 - Posted: 7 Aug 2011, 14:47:53 UTC Here is a pix of what the lights looked like here in Alberta We now have TV, power, and internet back in this area. ID: 1137225 ·

Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8235 Credit: 8,387,012 RAC: 6,659	Message 1137231 - Posted: 7 Aug 2011, 14:57:24 UTC Who needs TV with a natural light show like that? Wish I could see them, but I'm too far south. I HAVE seen them in real-time, once when I was stationed in Scotland, and one other time, when we surfaced the night before entering port at Adak, Alaska. Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired ID: 1137231 ·

Mike Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 17 Feb 01 Posts: 31153 Credit: 63,990,473 RAC: 25,743	Message 1137270 - Posted: 7 Aug 2011, 16:41:11 UTC Thats stunning Ian. With each crime and every kindness we birth our future. ID: 1137270 ·

celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,394,168 RAC: 994	Message 1137307 - Posted: 7 Aug 2011, 17:50:47 UTC - in response to Message 1137225. Last modified: 7 Aug 2011, 17:53:57 UTC I forgot that image was taken by Olivier Du Tré, in Cochrane, Alberta. I can hardly wait till I can afford a better camera to put on my scope. These shots were taken further south than I am. Lovely work from that person! ID: 1137307 ·

celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,394,168 RAC: 994	Message 1137569 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 10:08:22 UTC - in response to Message 1137307. It's just not stopping, I just got up to get the paper and there in the far north is a band of colour...... ID: 1137569 ·

celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,394,168 RAC: 994	Message 1137599 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 14:16:09 UTC - in response to Message 1137569. Look out down under. If you have clear sky in the south of your countries, look up! ID: 1137599 ·

Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 3908 Credit: 22,957,876 RAC: 4,626	Message 1137624 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 16:17:25 UTC Last modified: 8 Aug 2011, 16:29:49 UTC Recent Active Sun Prompts Stunning Auroras Over England Aurora on the River Tay, Newburgh, Fife, Scotland Credit: photosbyzoe ID: 1137624 ·

rob smith Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 16222 Credit: 318,830,044 RAC: 236,325	Message 1137631 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 16:38:36 UTC Last modified: 8 Aug 2011, 16:40:04 UTC Over SCOTLAND - as the caption says. ENGLAND is that place down below the boarder (its a bit like mixing up Canada and the USA, only even more life threatening) (OK, so the article does mention Cumbria). Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1137631 ·

rob smith Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 16222 Credit: 318,830,044 RAC: 236,325	Message 1137632 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 16:41:54 UTC All we managed in the English Midlands was a faint late night northern horizon glow which was the wrong colour for the street lights which normally despoil our night sky. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1137632 ·

celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,394,168 RAC: 994	Message 1137634 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 16:47:23 UTC - in response to Message 1137631. Still a massive show in the sky. This went off all over the world down to below 40 degrees north and south latitude. This image taken by: Gordon Mack Aug. 6, 2011 Location: Thurso, Caithness, Scotland ID: 1137634 ·

rob smith Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 16222 Credit: 318,830,044 RAC: 236,325	Message 1137648 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 17:22:19 UTC Hmm, clouds are clearing so there might be a chance of seeing something in a few hours time as the sun is way to bright just now as I sit in my office wearing sunglasses to see the screen! (Its 18:21hrs local time) Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? ID: 1137648 ·

celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,394,168 RAC: 994	Message 1137721 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 20:56:06 UTC - in response to Message 1137648. Last modified: 8 Aug 2011, 21:12:36 UTC We just had an X-ray Solar Flare M3, on the sun, these can cause aurora at some later time, 6 - 12 hours I think. It looks like a good year for light shows, things could get better. ID: 1137721 ·

klc53* Send message Joined: 14 Nov 07 Posts: 3052 Credit: 7,320,707 RAC: 0	Message 1137750 - Posted: 8 Aug 2011, 21:47:09 UTC We were supposed to be able to see them down here around Pittsburgh, but as luck would have it, it has been overcast on those evenings. Maybe tonight we'll get a chance. I did see them several times in my life, but nothing like the grandeur Celt and others observe up north. The colors are quite striking nonetheless. ... *BETTER THE WORLD ~ PAY IT FORWARD* ... ID: 1137750 ·

celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,394,168 RAC: 994	Message 1137942 - Posted: 9 Aug 2011, 6:00:59 UTC We just got another poot out of the sun, an M2 flair. No lights out there to-night. ID: 1137942 ·

celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,394,168 RAC: 994	Message 1137984 - Posted: 9 Aug 2011, 9:57:13 UTC - in response to Message 1137942. Well now how about that, we have a very light dusting of light on the northern horizon. It' s green misting, but very light. This has got to be the result of an S1 Solar Radiation Storm along with a Radio Blackout factor of R3. I am not sure but it may be called splash. Who knew eh? Still not much south of here I would think. ID: 1137984 ·

celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,394,168 RAC: 994	Message 1140288 - Posted: 14 Aug 2011, 4:19:49 UTC - in response to Message 1137984. Last modified: 14 Aug 2011, 4:23:39 UTC Lucky for me the Perseid meteor shower is just starting up. The moon is partly covered by the clouds, so if it all goes good I'll get better than the one per minute that I am getting now. There is a change for some aurora as well. I am lucky, the bugs bite me but after all these years in the north I don't notice ithem all that much. When a meteor comes over this will churp. http://topaz.streamguys.tv/~spaceweather/ ID: 1140288 ·

celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,394,168 RAC: 994	Message 1140330 - Posted: 14 Aug 2011, 6:56:56 UTC - in response to Message 1140288. There you go, get your eyes fixed and you can see better at night. Still there is a low turnout for the Perseid meteor shower and the aurora have backed off. We still have four hours to go. ID: 1140330 ·

celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,394,168 RAC: 994	Message 1140331 - Posted: 14 Aug 2011, 7:02:43 UTC - in response to Message 1140330. Looks bad over the UK. ID: 1140331 ·

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