Wow.
Tons of red, and green to the NE. Rays, searchlight looking thingys. I was shredding leaves, and I thought something out in the township was on fire!
It shifts, and changes as you watch! Cool celestial lava lamp!
Y'all should go outside tonight and have a look!
tah
Dense cloud cover in my area... Bummer.
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Where are you?
lives in a tropical area (about 20 N... very close to tropics of cancer)
DAMM!!!!
NE Ohio. It seemed to "die out" around 7PM here, which was a pisser, as my wife, and daughters were out at dance lessons. I don't really get it, as it seems we're rotating into the best display, but as of
10PM, all's quite outside.This had to be one of the best displays I've seen in Ohio. We were even able to discern traces of the typical "curtain" shapes. A *long* time ago, I remember seeing a pretty fantastic display up in Michigan on Lake Huron's shore, but this one was definitely much more colorful.
Neato!
tah
OK, just be cool, and relax. Swallow a little of this OJ and a couple of Niacin tablets...breathe deeply a few times...
Now, I need for you to try to remember...can you tell me, exactly,
*what* kind of 'leaves' were you shredding, and what were you doing with them afterwards? %-}
Just looking at the forecast you were right on the edge and you did well to see the show.......I check this site out a lot in the winter as we get surprises every three years or so. Now if we could get all the clowns to use straight downlighting instead of floods we'd be able to see more.......
auroa that much south??? Is the world coming to an end? I wonder if the core of the earth has stopped spinning and the next thing would be lightning storms all over? I hope they DO have an unobtainium ship somewhere...
Two large solar flares, one after another, happened to have combined. Only warnings by NOAA's Space Environment Center enabled us to prep most of the power grids and safe some of the more delicate satellites.
So of course Congress is planning to gut the Space Environment Center.
Sigh.
Zooty
LOL! Man, if humans could get high by smoking Maple leaves, I'd be a multi-billionaire with my own 5 square mile rocket ranch!
hehe..
No "controlled substances" here Mike, just our overabundance of Sugar Maples. One of these falls, I'm going to keep track of just how many tens, or possibly hundreds of cubic yards of leaves I actually deal with. Blow 'em into a big pile, run 'em through the shredder, and cart them back to the compost pile. Over, and over, and over until about Thanksgiving.
Makes for some _awesome_ garden dirt tho', after 12 years of doing this, my garden dirt's like potting soil.
This time of year, I actually end up shredding by the light of my trusty Coleman lantern, as it gets dark at about 6PM. If I hadn't quit when I did, and turned off the lantern, I probably would've completely missed the aurora..
tah
Given the high activity of the sun in the last few days (TWO significant CMEs within a week!), I was fully expecting aurora last night.
While I was driving home, I was pretty certain that I was seeing aurora, and when I got out of the car in my (rural) driveway, there it was. I got the kids out of the house to take a look. It was the first time my littlest ones had ever seen one.
This wasn't the most intense I've ever seen--not as much pulsating, colour wasn't that bright, and its locus was in an unusual position. In years past, I have seen *strong* aurora streaming out of the northern sky, as if emanating from a small circle around the pole star.
This one was short-lived, but visible in a lot more places than usual.
I'm glad that a larger audience could enjoy something that I enjoy quite regularly in my northern home...
Well, I gotta go put the sled dogs away, and render some seal blubber for heat and light :-)
It was pretty spectacular here too.. a blood red patch that from my perspective extended from a single focal point in the sky into a wide swath of color to the east. To the north were green-white ripply patches, and in general a polar array of white streaks in nearly al directions from that same focal point. The kids and I were driving along a dark back road when I spotted it, and we pulled over and ooh-ahhed for ten minutes or so outside. They were blown away by it.. my 11 year old said it's likely the coolest thing he's ever seen.
Hey Marcus, we just cut the snow blocks for the kid's school bus shelter, and they already heve two igloos in the back yard.
Mike D CTI
For hybrids:)
We had widespread smoke as a radiation shield.
Hmmm.... I wonder if H2O2 is hypergolic with seal-blubber oil?
-dave w
99% chance yes.
Looked last week, and again last night and this morning. ALl I saw was clouds...
:-(
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By gawd, don't let greenpeace hear about this. They'll be spraying baby seals with fire-retardant.
My understanding is that only high-test varieties of H2O2 are reliably hypergolic with oils.
Hmmmmm. How about a 95% H2O2 + Canola bipropellant?
[It's amusing how threads wander, isn't it?]Well, I gotta go re-drill that fishing hole in the ice, or my family'll starve before next week...:-)
What else is there? :)
Driving the SUV there?
Do a shutdown so at least it is not running when the storm hits.
Satellite cannot do a cold boot? You're screwed.
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