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Re: Geomagnetic storm alert issued 5-10-24
« Reply #25 on: May 11, 2024, 05:05:38 PM »
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WHATEVER YOUR DEFINITION OF "INFRINGE " IS, YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING IT.

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Re: Geomagnetic storm alert issued 5-10-24
« Reply #26 on: May 11, 2024, 09:15:18 PM »
Looks like it will hit G5 and K9 (the highest number of the K scale) between 0900-1200 zulu tonight/tomorrow morning. Instead of peeking outside late tonight, I think I'll just hit the rack early and get up at 0400.

Also, I found a neat smartphone astrophotography guide from NASA if anyone is interested:

https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/SMBooks/AstrophotographyV1.pdf
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Re: Geomagnetic storm alert issued 5-10-24
« Reply #28 on: May 12, 2024, 01:55:47 AM »
Near Golden CO:  88% to 94% cloud cover until dawn.  Thus far, to 11:59 MDT Satrday, no comm or power problems .  Will be rainy-ish all day Sunday. Told Son 2 to wish Wife1 happy Mother's Day. 
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Re: Geomagnetic storm alert issued 5-10-24
« Reply #29 on: May 12, 2024, 07:42:55 AM »
This morning was about the same intensity as yesterday in my AO. Yesterday, the show was directly North and lower in the sky. This morning, it was NE and higher in the sky. I still haven't been able to get color images. Though this morning under NODs, there was a meteor shower going on simultaneously, so that was kinda cool.
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Re: Geomagnetic storm alert issued 5-10-24
« Reply #30 on: Today at 05:32:42 AM »
On another place I visit someone mentioned that they were 50 years old and this is the first time they saw the Aurora Australis and was wondering what caused them.

By far the most entertaining and surprisingly accurate answer was: It is the sun farting and the earth's atmosphere getting dutch ovened.

It somehow works.   :rofl:
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Tell your curious friends it's the same thing as what goes on in a neon sign... but bigger.

Might be amusing... back when I was in CB long before I got my  ham ticket I had an 80 Watt linear in my car and a rooftop  "antoony." I taped a short desk type fluorescent tube to it and drove over to a CB buddy's house while I was talking to him on the radio and parked in the street outside his place while we yakked away and the bulb's light output varied with the volume of my voice.

"What the hell's going on, 'Terry' (not my CB handle), every time you talk my front yard lights up."  I finally told him what was going on and he came out to see and was amazed.  Moral: enough excitation will make gas glow.  That's why sparks spark and lightning flashes.  Oh, and why gas flames are blue.

         

^ Your Aurora APSalis for a cloudy night.

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Re: Geomagnetic storm alert issued 5-10-24
« Reply #31 on: Today at 09:26:06 AM »
I looked very early Sunday Morning, and although we had a clear sky, nothing was showing here, even under NODs or with a digital camera sensor.  My aunt in North FL syas she saw some at her place though, so it looks like we just missed them.  My Parents in Alaska didn't see anything due to AK's very on brand overcast and cold drizzle springtime weather.

I'm not too sad, because I've seen the lights a lot, but it's cool that a lot of folks got to see them for the first time.  They are pretty neat to watch.


Side Note:  I already saw on Twitter this morning that they were fake.  The.gov (and probably the jooz) fired up HAARP on Friday and made the lights.  The idea is to normalize them in the south, and then they can just make them appear when they have their grid killing event to [insert nefarious goal here] and blame it on a "solar flare".  It's basically just like COVID you sheep.  Wake up!  Man the internet has some high test crazy sometimes.

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Re: Geomagnetic storm alert issued 5-10-24
« Reply #32 on: Today at 10:43:21 AM »
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Re: Geomagnetic storm alert issued 5-10-24
« Reply #33 on: Today at 11:36:39 AM »
^ LOL !

Light that one !
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