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Posted: Oct 11, 2024 - 1:41pm

Sadly, I missed out on taking pictures, again last night.


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Posted: Oct 11, 2024 - 1:35pm

My friend Annie took this. It was much more subtle to the naked eye, but definitely cool.
 
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Posted: Oct 10, 2024 - 7:19pm

People south of me are getting a view. But I'm in the woods so I just see trees. My close neighbors have a deck with a northern sky view & they've got nothing. I saw a total solar eclipse in April so I'm good. 
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Posted: Oct 10, 2024 - 4:48pm

Heading up into the Shenandoah National Park now with some friends to see if we can see them!  
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Posted: Oct 10, 2024 - 2:54pm

 geoff_morphini wrote:

but, what will we do, 49ers - Seahawks game during the aurora. I don't know who to blame for this scheduling fiasco.




SF Giants have the night off so ...
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Posted: Oct 10, 2024 - 2:50pm

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:


Yep, we went out for the Draconids the other night and saw quite a few but mostly just enjoyed the night out in the sagebrush flats. Might have to go out again tonight.

but, what will we do, 49ers - Seahawks game during the aurora. I don't know who to blame for this scheduling fiasco.


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Posted: Oct 10, 2024 - 1:49pm

 Steely_D wrote:

Yep, we went out for the Draconids the other night and saw quite a few but mostly just enjoyed the night out in the sagebrush flats. Might have to go out again tonight.
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Posted: Oct 9, 2024 - 6:30pm

BTW - 

Stunning Aurora Borealis Possible Thursday Night in PA & Across US As Severe G4 Solar Storm Hits Earth


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Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 7:07am

 plaice3 wrote:
I went out to look last night just in case.  Didn't see an aurora, but did see a half-dozen shooting stars and an honest to goodness bolide like the one in this video, well, at least the first 7 seconds of this video.  It was pretty awesome!


 

I'll bet it was!!! How lucky was that? 
 
The most spectacular celestial event I ever saw was in the autumn of 1980, in my hometown, and a very long and bright rainbow-colored meteor streaked downward in the western sky. It nearly made my sister drive off the road it was so distracting!
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Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 7:03am

I went out to look last night just in case.  Didn't see an aurora, but did see a half-dozen shooting stars and an honest to goodness bolide like the one in this video, well, at least the first 7 seconds of this video.  It was pretty awesome!



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Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 6:52am

 islander wrote:

In Seattle it's a pretty rare confluence of Auroras and lack of clouds. I'd imagine Oregon is the same. Cloud cover varies a lot with local geography though, so some spots tend to be more clear.

 

Hmmmm. Maybe I'll just go up to Alaska and see them one day.
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Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 6:44am

 Alexandra wrote:


I was hoping someone like you would come in with something  like that. Thank you. I'm iconing that until I come to a lull in this next batch of work......

 
EDIT: Does Oregon regularly see Aurora Borealis? 
 
In Seattle it's a pretty rare confluence of Auroras and lack of clouds. I'd imagine Oregon is the same. Cloud cover varies a lot with local geography though, so some spots tend to be more clear.
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Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 6:44am

 Alexandra wrote:


I was hoping someone like you would come in with something  like that. Thank you. I'm iconing that until I come to a lull in this next batch of work......

 
EDIT: Does Oregon regularly see Aurora Borealis? 
 
In Seattle it's a pretty rare confluence of Auroras and lack of clouds. I'd imagine Oregon is the same. Cloud cover varies a lot with local geography though, so some spots tend to be more clear.
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Posted: Oct 25, 2011 - 10:15pm

I was just listening to CtoC and they said that it was seen as low as Arkansas on the 35 parallel. This was a 7 on a scale of 10  and really compressed the magnetic field exposing many geosynchronous satellites.
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Posted: Oct 25, 2011 - 9:37pm

 Alexandra wrote:
EDIT: Does Oregon regularly see Aurora Borealis? 
 
I saw one only once. I was visiting a friend on North Portland and went outside to have a smoke and there it was. It was totally amazing. That was the mid 1980's.
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Posted: Oct 25, 2011 - 7:57pm

No Aurora tonight....too cloudy.
 
But I was looking this time! 
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Posted: Oct 25, 2011 - 10:15am


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Posted: Oct 25, 2011 - 9:53am

 Alexandra wrote:


I've heard that a lot too, and thus the "2012" stuff. I would love to learn about all the geographical changes that happen when that happens.....from a scientist, though.

 
The thing is nobody has ever seen it before so nobody really knows.  The mechanism that drives the magnetic field in the first place is not all that well understood either.  I've seen a Nova with a guy who had a computer model that he seemed to think fit the historical data fairly well.  It had the field getting weaker (which it has been doing over the last century) before the shift and then becoming somewhat chaotic with multiple poles before coalescing again and regaining its strength reversed.   I've had the mechanism for the auroras explained to me before but I don't really remember all the details but as I recall the field is involved both in concentrating the charged particles coming from the sun and accelerating them to a higher energy level which then causes a photon to be emitted when the particle returns to original state.  I think this would mean that the displays would be much smaller if they happen at all but could end up being anywhere.   Meanwhile we'll all be getting skin cancer.

 
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Posted: Oct 25, 2011 - 9:46am

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

I was hoping someone like you would come in with something  like that. Thank you. I'm iconing that until I come to a lull in this next batch of work......

 
EDIT: Does Oregon regularly see Aurora Borealis? 
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