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. Was in Barkley Soond September and was thrilled to see a faint display on awakening to nature's call at 3 a.m. Thought for a brief moment it was the bright light of Uclueless. Asked a veteran of that area if he'd ever and he hadn't. Lucky me. Being a southern boy I had only seen them once before from a plane. *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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/ ***************************************************************************
> -----Original Message----- > From: E. Sullivan [mailto:sullivaned_at_pop.mts.kpnw.org] > Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 7:18 AM > To: p w > Subject: [Paddlewise] Auroral Displays > > > 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. Hey Edward, Haven't heard or seen any "lights" up here this summer so far. Activity does tend to begin to increase around the end of August or September. Sunset is now (at our latitude) at about 9:00pm so it's now beginning to be dark enough at a reasonable hour (10ish) to begin seeing the lights if they appear. I've only seen them twice outside of Alaska - once in the Michigan's UP and once camped at about 12,500 in Colorado (Mt Elbert). Those were both white lights - the displays I've seen up here have been much more colorful. No matter what they look like they're always incredible to watch and marvel at. Dave *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
Another good site for information on the Aurora is the University of Alaska Fairbanks site - http://www.pfrr.alaska.edu/~pfrr/AURORA/. They shutdown for the summer because it just doesn't get that dark up there, but start back up in September. Some good links to other sites dealing with the Aurora are available there also. Dave Seng Juneau, Alaska *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
My sister was up in Grand Marais MN weekend before last. There was an extensive display Friday night (July 30th) that was visible for a number of hours. It wasn't visible from the middle of South Dakota (family errands). Paul *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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