[TheForge] Burning Metal or Aurora?

Thu Nov 6 08:58:00 2003

Thanks for the link. If you like that one you might like this one. Some 
nice pictures of recent solar storms and the aurora they caused. 
http://www.spaceweather.com/

On Thursday, November 6, 2003, at 06:17 AM, Kevin Donahoe wrote:

> Jerry, when I first heard of the bunch of solar flares I found
> http://science.nasa.gov and signed up for their email list (lunar 
> eclipse
> next Wed).  This whole past week it's been cloudy here, too except for 
> one
> night, been checking most morning and evenings.  I fortunately got to 
> see
> the aurora a couple of times when I lived in WA.  One was red and 
> pulsing,
> localized on the horizon in the summer at dusk, the next time was 
> radiating
> across the whole sky, green and white fall/winter time.
>
> Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Donahoe" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 3:06 AM
> Subject: RE: [TheForge] Re: Burning Metal
>
>
>> Ralph,
>>
>> If you're going to try some of this, let the rest of us know, so 
>> those of
> us
>> to the south can tell if it's the Aurora Borealis... or Bear Hill!
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>
>
> Gee THANKS Kevin!
>
> Mention seeing the Aurora WAY down south and rub it in why dontcha! 
> Here
> we're having earth directed coronal mass ejections on a weekly basis. 
> The
> last one so big it's visible in S. Texas and here I sit in nice DARK 
> Meadow
> Lakes AK. miles from light pollution and it's been overcast for every 
> one!
> One clear night several days after the first (little #2) ejection and 
> the
> aurora here was so bright and active there were shadows dancing on the
> ground. Overcast and rainy solid since the recent large (#4) ejection 
> though
> it was only foggy a few days afterwards and you could see the aurora 
> as hazy
> lights THROUGH the fog!
>
> I just heard on the news tonight there was another even bigger coronal 
> mass
> ejection, off the scale this time so they're calling it a coronal 
> explosion.
> And . . . oh . . . yeah! It's forcast for rain and maybe snow (good 
> news if
> it happens) for the forseeable future! <GRRRRRR>
>
> Frosty
> ------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
> The FrostWorks
>
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
>
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