Space Weather News for Nov. 7, 2004 http://spaceweather.com Big sunspot 696 unleashed an X-class solar flare on Sunday, Nov. 7th, and probably hurled another coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. Solar wind conditions are favorable for a geomagnetic storm now (late Nov. 7th) and may become even more so when the CME arrives. Sky watchers: be alert for auroras on Nov. 7th, 8th and 9th. The best time to look is usually around local midnight. Patrick
Patrick, in case you hae not seen these sites before thought I would pass them along. Aurora glow is good to the north from here in Ogden, and radio aurora (buzz) has been very good this evening on Ham Radio VHF frequencies. Particulary 50 Mhz and 144 Mhz. http://solar.spacew.com/www/aurora.html http://aurora.n1bug.net/ http://www.spacew.com/plots.html Enjoy! Mark Patrick Wiggins wrote:
Space Weather News for Nov. 7, 2004 http://spaceweather.com
Big sunspot 696 unleashed an X-class solar flare on Sunday, Nov. 7th, and probably hurled another coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. Solar wind conditions are favorable for a geomagnetic storm now (late Nov. 7th) and may become even more so when the CME arrives. Sky watchers: be alert for auroras on Nov. 7th, 8th and 9th. The best time to look is usually around local midnight.
Patrick
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-- 73! Ku7z, Mark in DN41 "Amateur radio operators do it with frequency. Ham radio operators do it till their GigaHertz."
Hi friends, I just drove to Little Mountain and it was so cloudy that I don't know if I saw any auroras. There were unusual bands overhead where it was otherwise fairly cloudless and some bright places to the north and east. So I shot a roll of film on the basis that maybe my eyes weren't color sensitive enough at night after driving -- if there were any auroras I think they should show up on the film. Did anyone else see anything? thanks, Joe
In my light polluted front yard in Layton I could see the high clouds backlit with a faint greenish tint to the north. I was hoping that tomorrow would bring better conditions, but after watching the weather that hope seems dim. ~Jon Christensen ----- Original Message ----- From: Joe Bauman<mailto:bau@desnews.com> To: Utah Astronomy<mailto:utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] More on aurora Hi friends, I just drove to Little Mountain and it was so cloudy that I don't know if I saw any auroras. There were unusual bands overhead where it was otherwise fairly cloudless and some bright places to the north and east. So I shot a roll of film on the basis that maybe my eyes weren't color sensitive enough at night after driving -- if there were any auroras I think they should show up on the film. Did anyone else see anything? thanks, Joe _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com<mailto:Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy<http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy> Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com<http://www.utahastronomy.com/>
Thanks for the heads up Josephine. Got your email and went outside - cloudy. So checked on the web and it looked like the clouds would end at about the Idaho border. Loaded up the cameras and set out. Clouds started to break about Ogden and the aurora was visible from about Brigham north; but I thought it was more clouds so we kept going north. Stopped at a rest stop just north of the border where I finally figured out it wasn't clouds in the north but the aurora. Pulled over just north of Malad and we were treated to a great show. At the peak the aurora went from Cygnus in the northwest to Gemini in the northeast and up over Cas overhead. Reds and greens; ray and waves; quite a sight!! Spent about an hour up there taking watching the show and taking pictures; then clouds started moving in from the southeast and we came back home. Thanks again Bill B. On Nov 7, 2004, at 9:09 PM, Joe Bauman wrote:
Hi friends, I just drove to Little Mountain and it was so cloudy that I don't know if I saw any auroras. There were unusual bands overhead where it was otherwise fairly cloudless and some bright places to the north and east. So I shot a roll of film on the basis that maybe my eyes weren't color sensitive enough at night after driving -- if there were any auroras I think they should show up on the film. Did anyone else see anything? thanks, Joe
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