Perfect electro-magnetic storm

Solid overcast in the Puget Sound region tonight. No auroras. Cheated once
again. :-(

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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Solid overcast in the Puget Sound region tonight. No auroras. Cheated once
again. :-(

Look again. There are plenty of stars visible on the Eastside. Probably up
at the San Juans too. I dunno about elsewhere.

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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Solid overcast in the Puget Sound region tonight. No auroras. Cheated
once
again. :-(

Look again. There are plenty of stars visible on the Eastside. Probably
up
at the San Juans too. I dunno about elsewhere.

But from the Snoqualmie valley I didn't see any sign of an aurora anyway.
Just the glow of lights from Monroe (which is 8 miles north of me and has a
well-lit prison).

-- David Brooks

Solid overcast in the Puget Sound region tonight. No auroras. Cheated once
again. :-(

Ah, don't worry -- it's just the usual "Haley's Comet" media hoax. I took
my family out into the county, away from the city lights. It was dark as a
witch's soul...

No aurora here.

We do this every time they say there will be a comet, meteor shower, or sun
flare. Never -- not even ONCE -- have we seen anything. :-(
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:wG9ob.62156$HS4.549608@attbi_s01...
| Solid overcast in the Puget Sound region tonight. No auroras. Cheated
once
| again. :-(
|
| Ah, don't worry -- it's just the usual "Haley's Comet" media hoax. I took
| my family out into the county, away from the city lights. It was dark as
a
| witch's soul...
|
| No aurora here.
|
| We do this every time they say there will be a comet, meteor shower, or
sun
| flare. Never -- not even ONCE -- have we seen anything. :-(
| --

I actually saw Halley's Comet, but you needed a very dark night to see much
of it. Of course, nobody could see Kahoutec with the naked eye, though I
vividly remember one woman calling into a radio station excitedly saying she
could see it.

"It is kind of a red blinking light moving across the sky."

Host: "Great! Yes! Now I see it, too!"

"C J Campbell" wrote in message ...

I actually saw Halley's Comet, but you needed a very dark night to see much
of it.

We saw it (out on the roof of our building in the middle of an Army proving ground).
I've also seen Bennetts comet (which was much brighter and trivial to see once
you got up at 3AM to go look for it).

I've also seen countless meteor showers. It helps to have a next door neighbor
who was an astronomy buff.

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:wG9ob.62156$HS4.549608@attbi_s01...
| Solid overcast in the Puget Sound region tonight. No auroras. Cheated
once
| again. :-(
|
| Ah, don't worry -- it's just the usual "Haley's Comet" media hoax. I
took
| my family out into the county, away from the city lights. It was dark
as
a
| witch's soul...
|
| No aurora here.
|
| We do this every time they say there will be a comet, meteor shower, or
sun
| flare. Never -- not even ONCE -- have we seen anything. :-(
| --

I actually saw Halley's Comet, but you needed a very dark night to see
much
of it. Of course, nobody could see Kahoutec with the naked eye, though I
vividly remember one woman calling into a radio station excitedly saying
she
could see it.

"It is kind of a red blinking light moving across the sky."

Host: "Great! Yes! Now I see it, too!"




Hehe... never even looked for that one. Bud did get a great view of comet
Hyukatake... just happened to be planning a big spring break trip to the
Texas Big Bend/Davis mountain area (including the McDonnal Observatory) had
no idea the comet was going to be around untill a few months before the
trip... well after we had it all planned out. Was incredible to see it and
its tail streak across about fifteen degrees of arc in the darkest skies
available in the south central US.... I also saw the 1989 aurora event from
the Dallas Fort Worth area, but i was a wee little ladd then.... just
remember seeing the colerful arcs across the sky and convincing my friend
next door we were under alien attack... he went and hid (arent' kids awful,
i know i was!). Never did see halleys last time through, remember dad
driving us well away from the city lights to look for it tho. Hale Bopp was
also fairly impressive, unfortunately the only time i really saw it was the
city lights washing out most of the tail. Stayed up late last night
checking outside every thirty minutes for these danged aurorae, never saw a
single thing so i called it a night... supposed to take my first solo XC
today from Arlington Municipal (KGKY) to Stephenville Clark (KSEP) but the
high winds may get in the way... will know more about that later...

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
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We do this every time they say there will be a comet, meteor shower, or
sun
flare. Never -- not even ONCE -- have we seen anything. :-(


Pssst...Buddy. Wanna buy some 30th anniversary Comet Kahotek pictures?

Montblack
"I like to watch"

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 10:22:28 -0600, "Montblack"
wrote in Message-Id:
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("Jay Honeck" wrote)
snip
We do this every time they say there will be a comet, meteor shower, or
sun
flare. Never -- not even ONCE -- have we seen anything. :-(


Pssst...Buddy. Wanna buy some 30th anniversary Comet Kahotek pictures?

Montblack
"I like to watch"



Here's a little information pertinent to the subject of this thread:


Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:44:58 -0400
From: Richard Langley
Subject: Major Geomagnetic Storm Underway

As reported by the Canadian Space Weather Forecast Centre in Ottawa:

Major Storm Warning
A major solar flare and eruption on the Sun occurred on 28 October at
11:02 UT (06:02 EST). This sent a cloud of charged particles towards
the Earth at a speed of over 2000 km/sec. The size of the solar flare
and the speed of the eruption prompted the Canadian Space Weather
Forecast Centre to issue a ÒMajor Storm WatchÓ for 29 October from
06:00 to 14:00 UT (01:00 to 09:00 EST).

Major Storm Observed
The solar disturbance reached the Earth at approx 06:00 UT (01:00
EST), 29 October and has produced a Major Magnetic Storm in all
regions of Canada. Magnetic field variations are up to 1000 nT at
lower latitudes and over 3000 nT in the auroral zone, reaching a
maximum of 4000 nT at Iqualuit. This is over 10 times larger than a
moderate magnetic storm, and over 100 times larger than normal
conditions. The size of the magnetic disturbance means that
compasses can be unreliable, HF radio propagation will be affected,
and large geomagnetically induced currents can be expected.

[Note that the GPS broadcast single-frequency ionospheric delay model
will likely be performing poorly and WADGPS systems such as WAAS and
CDGPS will likely be unable to account for storm effects on their
ionospheric delay corrections. -- R.B.L.]

Jay Honeck wrote:

No aurora here.

Nothing in New Jersey either, though the moon was nice tonight (Thursday).

George Patterson
You can dress a hog in a tuxedo, but he still wants to roll in the mud.