Northern lights The aurora borealis lights up the night sky north of Dunkerton, Iowa, on Nov. 7. (AP/Waterloo Courier, Brandon Pollock)
Posted on 11/09/2004 1:35:01 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Northern lights The aurora borealis lights up the night sky north of Dunkerton, Iowa, on Nov. 7. (AP/Waterloo Courier, Brandon Pollock)
Update: There's been a new X-class coronal mass ejection on the sun, according to our astronomer Dan Joyce. It occurred late Sunday and was more intense than the M-class flare on Saturday ultimately responsible for Sunday night's auroras. Dan tells me this might signal a new round of auroral displays Tuesday night—and doesn't rule out some northern lights tonight either—athough he thinks Tuesday night presents the best chance for additional auroras, if they're going to occur. I had a phone call from a viewer of our Midday and Nine O'Clock News programs up at Timmins, in eastern Ontario province, confirming brilliant auroras there last night as well.
Back to back mild, sunny days are unusual enough for a Chicago weekend in November, but to top it off, nighttime sky watchers were treated to an unusual visit from an aurora in the northern sky Sunday evening, especially brilliant in suburban and rural areas away from city lights.
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Lights over the farm Green hues of the aurora borealis fill the sky above a farm along Highway D near Lake Church, Wis., on Nov. 7. (AP/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jeffrey Phelps)
Lights over Wisconsin Northern lights shine in the sky outside of Racine, Wis., on Nov. 7. (AP/Journal Times, Scott Anderson)
Lights over Lake Michigan Northern lights shimmer over Lake Michigan and Ludington, Mich., State Park as cars travel along M-116 on Nov. 7. According to a NASA Web site, the lights are caused by collisions between fast-moving electrons and the oxygen and nitrogen in Earth's upper atmosphere. (AP/Ludington Daily News, Andy Klevorn)
Special treat Nighttime sky watchers were treated to an unusual visit from an aurora in the northern sky Sunday evening, especially brilliant in suburban and rural areas away from city lights. The northern lights brighten up the western sky over downtown Saginaw, Mich. (AP photo from The Saginaw News, Michael Hollenbeck) November 8, 2004
Lights over Indiana The aurora borealis lights up the night sky over Vincennes, Ind., on Nov. 7. (AP/Vincennes Sun-Commercial, Sam Sievers)
Witnessing the event Electrically charged particles from the sun dance across the night sky as the aurora borealis, or northern lights, makes an appearance after midnight in Brookfield, Wis., on Nov. 8. The celestial event occurs most frequently during the height of the 11-year sunspot cycle. (AP/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dale Gulden)
I see them here in central Mo.
We're going to check tomorrow night here in Maryland.
Nothing at the moment - except it's COLD!
Clouds.
Same with the eclipse. The last 5 lunars were all clouds.
Check tomorrow (today) night.
There could be a better chance tomorrow.
More pics at http://www.spaceweather.com - you can sign up for a phone-alert service if things are right for seeing the Aurora in the future...
Thanks for posting the pics.
Nothing that spectacular here, but we did get a horizonal show through light, scattered cloud cover betwen midnight & 1AM tonight.
Just managed to catch a peek at the peak, so to speak, by driving about 7 miles out of town, to Wind Cave Nat Park. Our weather person mentioned last night's show on tonight's 11 o'clock news, so I went to the KIP-Index & POES N Hemisphere map pages to keep an eye on the graph & oval.
Sorry we missed last night, as it was much clearer here, but we went to bed early.
Got a great show at the Park this past summer during the big flares.
Really?
Cool.
Ther big guy is putting on a show...
It's $4.95 a month...
I hope you get a show tonight (Tues).
It's an interesting site.
There are a lot worse ways to spend $5.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1273928/posts
Beautiful Show. I hope to be able to see them tonight. Of course I've got lots of other stuff on my mind right now, but these are just as good as the lights over Fallujah.
I certainly hope so.
If we don't pretty soon, I'll get nagged into driving to Alaska some fine summer.
I'm seeing them right now, about 50 miles southwest of Chicago.
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