Re: [APML] Aurora!!

["Jim Ives" <flyboy9990@earthlink.net>]

Hi Chris!
Wasn't it amazing? I was pretty awstruck by it. It was like more than 1/2
the sky was covered by a dome! I was snapping off photos like crazy but
didn't want to look through the camera because I thought I might miss
something.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris & Jennifer Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] Aurora!!


> Jim -
> I saw the same effect of the vertical streaks.  As one would form and move
> off to the west, another would take its place.  Some moved off to the east
> as well.  I also noticed much of the activity was in the NW but there were
> also smaller pillars in the E and NE.  Very cool!
>
> Chris
>
>
> ==================
> Chris Cook
> Astronomical Photography
> www.abmedia.com/astro
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Ives <flyboy9990@earthlink.net>
> To: astro-photo@seds.org <astro-photo@seds.org>
> Date: Sunday, September 08, 2002 10:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [APML] Aurora!!
>
>
> >I was out Saturday working on a drift alignmnet when I saw the Northern
> >Lights. At 43deg N they stretched past due East and past Due west! They
> were
> >tward the South about 20degrees from due over my head! Couldn't believe
it.
> >I was watching them traveling to the west in vertical streaks and it was
> >like vertical blinds closing one after the other. I never saw any quite
> like
> >this! They were out from 9pm to 2:30 AM!
> >    I snapped a bunch of photos with a 28mm. Keeping my fingers crossed!
> >Jim Ives
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Chris & Jennifer Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>
> >To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
> >Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 12:06 PM
> >Subject: Re: [APML] Aurora!!
> >
> >
> >> Hi Chris -
> >> I knew something was up very early because as the sky got dark, the
whole
> >> northern sky looked like Boston was about 15 miles away.  And its
really
> >75
> >> miles to the NW.
> >> Maybe we'll luck out again in the near future.
> >>
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >>
> >> ==================
> >> Chris Cook
> >> Astronomical Photography
> >> www.abmedia.com/astro
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Chris Schur <cschur@cybertrails.com>
> >> To: astro-photo@seds.org <astro-photo@seds.org>
> >> Date: Sunday, September 08, 2002 9:55 AM
> >> Subject: RE: [APML] Aurora!!
> >>
> >>
> >> >Chris - so envious of your lattitude! There MAY have been a
photographic
> >> >Aurora here last night, but we were in the middle of a huge monsoon
> >storm.
> >> >
> >> >Chris Schur
> >> >
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >From: owner-astro-photo@seds.org [mailto:owner-astro-photo@seds.org]On
> >> >Behalf Of Chris & Jennifer Cook
> >> >Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 6:49 PM
> >> >To: astro-photo@seds.org
> >> >Subject: Re: [APML] Aurora!!
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >For about 15 minutes the northern sky up to Polaris east to Cass and
> west
> >> to
> >> >Mizar was full of bright red and green pillars.  Very beautiful!  So I
> >> guess
> >> >living farther north does have its advantages sometime... <g>
> >> >Activity has died off at this point.... more later?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Chris
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >==================
> >> >Chris Cook
> >> >Astronomical Photography
> >> >www.abmedia.com/astro
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >From: Chris & Jennifer Cook <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>
> >> >To: astro-photo@seds.org <astro-photo@seds.org>
> >> >Date: Saturday, September 07, 2002 9:08 PM
> >> >Subject: [APML] Aurora!!
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>It just got dark here on the east coast(Cape Cod, MA) and the whole
> >> >northern
> >> >>half of the sky is very, very bright.  Looks like faint green.  Get
out
> >> and
> >> >>look if you got clear skies!  I'm at 41.5N.
> >> >>
> >> >>I got the Fuji 800 going through the camera.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>Chris
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>==================
> >> >>Chris Cook
> >> >>Astronomical Photography
> >> >>www.abmedia.com/astro
> >> >>
> >> >>
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