I haven’t seen Panstarrs since Tuesday and it doesn’t look as if it will happen tonight, either. It’s been cloudy down here the last few days. The photo opportunities are passing me by. Is it any better up north? Dave
Hahahaha! Totally cloudy, like all week. It was perfect this morning. Sigh. On Mar 16, 2013 7:42 PM, "Dave Gary" <davegary@me.com> wrote:
I haven’t seen Panstarrs since Tuesday and it doesn’t look as if it will happen tonight, either. It’s been cloudy down here the last few days. The photo opportunities are passing me by. Is it any better up north?
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Looks like we're not going to miss just the comet. Maybe an auroral display too. Earlier today I received the following from SpaceWeather. Grumble, patrick +++++ A magnetic eruption on the sun during the early hours of March 15th hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) directly toward Earth. NOAA forecasters estimate a 70% chance of polar geomagnetic storms when the CME arrives on March 17th. High-latitude and possibly even middle-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras this weekend. +++++ On 16 Mar 2013, at 19:52, Chuck Hards wrote:
Hahahaha!
Totally cloudy, like all week.
It was perfect this morning. Sigh. On Mar 16, 2013 7:42 PM, "Dave Gary" <davegary@me.com> wrote:
I haven’t seen Panstarrs since Tuesday and it doesn’t look as if it will happen tonight, either. It’s been cloudy down here the last few days. The photo opportunities are passing me by. Is it any better up north?
Dave
I monitored several live aurora webcams last night until I went to be at about midnight, and didn't see any activity. One was as far north as Yellowknife, Canada. Of course you can't always tell what the overcast situation is just from a webcam image, although the moon was quite plain low on the horizon. On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
Looks like we're not going to miss just the comet. Maybe an auroral display too.
I just tried about half and hour ago. No luck. I tried from my driveway. It wouldn’t have mattered if I had a clearer shot of the western horizon. Just too many clouds. It’s supposed to be clearer, tomorrow. I think I’ll drive out a little further west from my house and see if I can catch it. That is, of course, if there’s no large bank of clouds in the way. If I don’t get any photos, tomorrow, that’s it for me for the rest of the week as far as weather is concerned. It’s supposed to blow in some more cloudy days for the rest of my off-time and I’ll be back to work on Wednesday. I go to bed too early for any imaging sessions when I work. Ask Larry or Patrick or Chris, they can tell you the one thing I need is beauty sleep. Dave On Mar 16, 2013, at 7:41 PM, Dave Gary <davegary@me.com> wrote:
I haven’t seen Panstarrs since Tuesday and it doesn’t look as if it will happen tonight, either. It’s been cloudy down here the last few days. The photo opportunities are passing me by. Is it any better up north?
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Dave I hope you understand that I was laughing at the idea of clear skies up north, and not your own situation. I've seen DudSTARRS twice. Once just a nucleus, and on Wednesday I got a five-minute window to see a one-degree tail. Misery loves company.
I guess we really lucked-out weather-wise when Hale-Bopp appeared in '97, wasn't it? That observing window ran from late February through early April, IIRC, and there were many absolutely clear mornings and evenings during that time. I went out for photography sessions at remote sites no fewer than 9 times for Hale-Bopp and wasn't clouded out for any of them.
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