Posted on 09/27/2017 11:21:23 PM PDT by Pontiac
Definitely want to go there at least once, we were planning this year but it didnt work out...
This is great
I, too, remember the northern lights in 64-65. I was just north of Washington, D.C.
When do they blame Trump?
When do they blame Trump?
lol...I was just thinking the same thing.
Usually the radio propagation is blacked out with the protons that hit the ionishpere at the speed of light. The CME which comes a couple days later from a flare (speed may vary) gives us the geomagnetic storms and can cause issues with radio signals, but not like the speed of light protons days earlier. Hams can even bounce signals off auroras. I’m usually on VHF/UHF and haven’t fired up the HF in the last 12 hours. HF was fine then and I was listening to stations from thousands of miles away with little fading and normal background interference.
We have them routinely in northern Michigan.
I’ve seen them a couple times when I lived in Michigan. Our son works on a solar project at NASA and gave us a heads up a couple weeks ago. They thought it might be slightly visible in lower states.
We drove an hour or so up into Amish country in PA but didn’t see anything.
I was born & raied in Wisconsin.
Northern Lights were fairly common when I was a kid on the farm.
We had several strange little power blurbs last night.
It’s Global Warming
It’s got to be Global Warming.
But then of course GlowBull Warming is Trump’s fault.
That’s amazing! Looks fun.
GEOMAGNETIC STORM UPDATE: A strong G3-class geomagnetic storm that sparked bright equinox auroras around the Arctic Circle last night is now subsiding. At the peak of the storm, Northern Lights descended into the USA as far south as Washington, Michigan, Montana, Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota. The activity was sparked by a stream of solar wind flowing from a large hole in the sun's atmosphere.
AN EXPLOSION OF PINK OVER ALASKA: Knowing that a solar wind stream was heading for Earth, forecasters predicted a geomagnetic storm last night. However, they didn't predict it would be so strong, a G3-class event. Marketa S. Murray photographed the pleasant surprise outside Fairbanks, Alaska:
"It was one of the best shows I've seen," says Murray, a longtime Alaska sky watcher and aurora tour guide. "The auroras were remarkable for their amazing pink and purple color."
The pink color is a sign of nitrogen. Most auroras are green--a verdant glow caused by energetic particles from space hitting oxygen atoms 100 km to 300 km above Earth's surface. Pink appears when energetic particles descend lower than usual, striking nitrogen molecules at the 100 km level and below. The solar wind stream currently blowing around Earth seems to be sending particles deep enough into Earth's atmosphere to spark this lovely type of aurora
Pictures at the link. Above.
Those pictures of the Aurora were beautiful. Thank you!.
We get them fairly often, though never in the spring or summer.
Last week or so we were trying to find something to cover the bedroom window better so we could sleep.
I am amazed that people can see something like that and believe that there is no God.
I have only seen them once in person.
They are awe-inspiring.
My wife and I are taking an Alaskan cruize in May. I am hoping that (against the odds I know) that we will see the Aurora.
We are going in May to see the glaciers but I can hope for a twofer.
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