Aurora Borealis ALERT

[Greebe]

Space Weather News for April 24, 2000

An interplanetary shock wave passed by NASA's ACE spacecraft at 0400 UT
(midnight EDT) on April 24. The solar wind velocity jumped from 420 to 520
km/s and the interplanetary magnetic field turned southward. These
conditions are likely to create geomagnetic disturbances on Earth and
possible displays of aurora borealis at middle latitudes. Sky watchers are
advised to be on the lookout for Northern Lights near local midnight.

That means Monday guys'n gals!

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[This message has been edited by Greebe (edited 24 April 2000).]

[ALBPM]

Oh!!No!!

Not another one of those "Mass Emissions Flashback" thingies.

I just hate that when everyone up North is having "Flashbacks" and seeing all those colored lights and we don't see that way down here. Don't you hate that??? I just hate that...LOL

Paul

Mike was just waiting for me to trash his thread...Don't you just hate that....LOL

[The PIT]

Well bugger it it's cloudy again!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jorden]

It's clear here, just hope to see a lightshow like last month

Pauly: just watch the video... someone will put it on the internet

Jord.

[Hunsow]

It's getting darker but so far I can only see some stars and some bats.

[The PIT]

Hunsow perhaps you could use your Webcam?

[Hunsow]

Good idea, if something is showing I will try and make a picture, maybe even live pictures.

[cancer]

a quick question guys, is the aurora borealis(northern lights) a mirror image of the australis borealis(southern Lights). i remember seeing it on some doco(pretty cool doco too).
cheers.

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[The PIT]

Cancer Yup the same thing.

[cancer]

Thanks Pit & this is very weird phenomenon but interesting none the less.
Cheers.


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[Rowan]

Living in southern Finland I saw my first aurora borealis last winter. It was just awesome. The whole sky was colored with green and yellow 'waves' with red here and there. It cannot be captured on film. Now I really understand those Japanese tourists that come to Lapland from the other side of the globe to watch the sky. They even have one guide whose only duty is to watch the sky at nights and wake everyone up.

I was in the army at the time. They were so spectacular I actually didn't mind leaving the warmth of the tent and my rugsack. I'll remember that night for the rest of my life, standing there on snow covered rocky plain, brisk wind blowing, orienteering by the lights on sky.

(Just to make all you feel a bit more bad for not seeing Aurora Borealis

[Paddy]

why cant it be captured on film?

[SteveC]

I assume he means the 'atmosphere' cannot be captured on film.

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Jord]

I hope so Steve, as I found the following four pics of Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis:



I sure hope those are pictures

Jord.

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[Greebe]

Space Weather News for May 1, 2000

A coronal mass ejection (CME) from a small sunspot group was recorded
by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory on April 30, 2000. If
material from the eruption is heading toward Earth, as animations
of the CME suggest, then the shock wave will probably arrive
late on May 2nd or sometime on May 3rd. Forecasters estimate a
30% chance of active geomagnetic conditions at middle-latitudes
on May 3, 2000.

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