At 08:17 AM 8/7/00 -0700, E. Sullivan wrote: >Have heard conditions are good for above average displays. >Anyone witnessed? At what latitude? I'm heading up B.C. way >and will shift trip away from full moon if there's a good >chance for sightings. It's true that the sun is going through the maximum stage of its 11 year cycle of solar activity. That means we are more likely get really massive solar flares pointed our way. The most recent big storm was on July 14th, with aurora visible as far south as Florida. Having never seen the Aurora myself, I check SpaceWeather.com every day for an update on solar weather, which tracks sunspots, solar flares and coronal holes. When something might be happening, I also check the near real-time photographs of the Aurora activity from NASA's Polar satellite (http://science.msfc.nasa.gov/uvi/LatestImage.htm) to see if it should be visible at my latitude. It's hard to predict in advance when a solar storm will strike the earth, although the NASA SOHO satellite can give us a day or two of warning when solar flares erupt towards the Earth. Kevin Kevin Whilden Your Planet Earth http://www.yourplanetearth.org (206) 788-0281 (ph) (206) 788-0284 (f) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Aug 07 2000 - 10:22:13 PDT
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