Re: [APML] The Perfect Storm - Aurora

["Chris Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>]

Hi John -

Well, I think.  I thought I saw blue but wasn't sure, then John Boudreau
emailed me and said he thought he detected blue.
You can share more often if you'd like.  But not every new moon period.....
;-)

Chris

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Chris Cook
Astronomical & Nightscape Photography
www.abmedia.com/astro

-----Original Message-----
From: John C. Mirtle <spampit@shaw.ca>
To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography <astro-photo@seds.org>
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] The Perfect Storm - Aurora


Chris,
    I don't mind sharing! We get several displays like that every solar max.
When you get a show like you described, along with everything pulsating once
or twice a second, it's pretty darn impressive. Try observing or
photographing a 10th mag galaxy through it though! Oddly enough, there is no
evidence of any aurora here at all! The aurora "ring" must be pushed well
south of my latitude. Probably a good thing, we are at -14C and dropping.
Hope you remembered to take some pictures! Any blues??

John Mirtle
Calgary, Ab. Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 6:29 PM
Subject: [APML] The Perfect Storm - Aurora


And I thought John Mirtle was the only one to see this? <g>  Although
activity has subsided around here (its 8:30pm EST), I witnessed the most
awesome auroral display I've ever seen.  Hundreds of pillars pulsating up
past the zenith, they were so bright the ground was illuminated a
pinkish/red.  And then to top it off, a corona at the zenith formed!!    At
this point the sky was totally covered with aurora.  Way past Mars to the
south.  In the 18 years I've been into astronomy, I've never seen a display
so beautiful!  And the night is just beginning.......:-)

At least for us New England astronomers, this should be called "The Perfect
Storm".. and what perfect timing..... October 30, 2003 vs. October 30, 1991.

Chris

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Chris Cook
Astronomical & Nightscape Photography
www.abmedia.com/astro

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