Posted: 3/9/2011 10:42:03 PM EDT
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Quite a show tonight. Will try and get some photos or video.
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Witnessing the Aurora Borealis is on my bucket list. Pics will do for now. Tag.  Although not as spectacular as points further north, we get them here at my house on occasion. The best ones are north of here a little way up along Lake Superior and the border canoe country of the Superior/Quetico. I have seen them on a few trips where there is nothing around you but calm, not a ripple on the water while sitting back on a rock three days paddle from the nearest road sipping on a little bourbon with the bonus call of the loons far off in the distance. Just awesome. Make a point to spend some time where they happen. Hopefully, you'll get lucky enough to see them. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Witnessing the Aurora Borealis is on my bucket list. Pics will do for now. Tag. Although not as spectacular as points further north, we get them here at my house on occasion. The best ones are north of here a little way up along Lake Superior and the border canoe country of the Superior/Quetico. I have seen them on a few trips where there is nothing around you but calm, not a ripple on the water while sitting back on a rock three days paddle from the nearest road sipping on a little bourbon with the bonus call of the loons far off in the distance. Just awesome. Make a point to spend some time where they happen. Hopefully, you'll get lucky enough to see them. I'd absolutely love to. Preferably while enjoying some of the finest strains of modern Mary Jane, provided the laws allowed it, of course. |
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Probably going to get better over the next few days. An X-class solar flare just pitched a CME our way:
March 9th ended with a powerful solar flare. Earth-orbiting satellites detected an X1.5-class explosion from behemoth sunspot 1166 around 2323 UT. A movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a bright flash of UV radiation plus some material being hurled away from the blast site: A first look at coronagraph images from NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft suggests that the explosion did propel a coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. This conclusion is preliminary, however, so check back later for updates. After four years without any X-flares, the sun has produced two of the powerful blasts in less than one month: Feb. 15th and March 9th. This continues the recent trend of increasing solar activity, and shows that Solar Cycle 24 is heating up. NOAA forecasters estimate a 5% chance of more X-flares during the next 24 hours. SpaceWeather.com |
Still trying to get a good video or photo. Harder than I though 
This is another forecast site I use, that is a little easier to understand. http://www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/ They also have an IPhone App. Aviator |
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THey are awesome here too, the colors....the colors... Only green here tonight. I think that is why I am having problems getting images. Aviator Does your camera have a timed exposure on it? Also, do you have a remote for your camera? If at all possible, have a cabled remote, the wireless batteries don't last very long outside this time of the year. it is totally possible to get good green ones. I managed to get some mediocre ones at the Ice Classics three years ago and that was right there in the park with all the lights. |