WooHooo! A Natural ECM tonight!

[dumbuser]

Lets see DirectTV top this one!
Article from KC Star (http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/home.pat,local/3774f16a.b24,.html)

http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/

[Alaccountant]

I guess there's no problem with bandwith.

[cooperhillgirl]

Thanks dumbuser,
I've alerted friends with telescopes I want to try to see this, sounds like it coud be fun to try to watch...;)

[quaddawg]

CHG, not to blast or anything, but how are yo going to watch a solar storm with a telescope?

[Starr]

Quad, ROTFLMAO

Starr xoxoxo

[cooperhillgirl]

Originally posted by quaddawg
CHG, not to blast or anything, but how are yo going to watch a solar storm with a telescope?

quad,
I guess yo didn't read the article? Here's a piece of it:

The same geomagnetic blasts also coud pull the Northern Lights sky show farther south, perhaps to the Kansas City area, for a relatively rare look at the colored lights dancing in the northern sky, forecasters sai Friday.

The best chance to see the Aurora Borealis, the solar particle-charged colorful flickering often called the Northern Lights, probably will be when the third of five storms hits Earth about 1 a.m. Central time Sunday. For the best view, get away from city lights.

[Angel29]

ROTFLMAO

[cooperhillgirl]

Originally posted by Angel27
ROTFLMAO

:D

[quaddawg]

Now, I really don't want to be a spoil sport or anything, but... I wasn't aware that the aurora effect was visible with a telescope. I did read the article and I didn't see anything about a telescope. On my excursions through areas with some limited view of the Aurora Borealis (sp?) I never saw fodks using a telescope. I always assumed that the field of view was much too limited. Please enlighten me.
No bashing intended at all, just curious.

[quaddawg]

Oh.... hi Starr, didn't see yo , How ya doing?

[cooperhillgirl]

quad,
I don't claim to know much more than I've read "very" recently. A friend bought her boyfriend a new telescope and we've been trying to figure it out.

But from what I understand it's (Aurora Borealis) visible with the naked eye if yo r in north, like Alaska. But this (solar storm) is suppoced to bring it down further south. But with weather, pollution and alot more factors that I don't really know about coud make it hard to see. But I know I've read of people taking pictures of it with cameras with long exposures >10 seconds.

But I just thought we'd give it a shot. It's so cloudy right now I'm about to give up hope that we are gonna be able to see anything. Oh well, just playin with a new toy..

But if yo don't think it's possible tell me, it's a little cold outside!

[quaddawg]

CooperHillGirl. I am not trying to be a butt, well maybe I was at first, but I am not a mean guy. The Aurora Borealis and the Aurora Australius(sp?) are best seen with a very wide view.Usually they are very large and dance across the sky. They sometimes take the form of gaseous nebulosities only 10 meters wide, but are so tenuous and fleeting that to glimpse them while looking through a telescope, with it's inherent narrow field of view, woud be very hard if not impossible. To view them best, yo need to be out of the city lights with little no or moonlight. The wider the field of view yo have, the better. They can shimmer like a satin curtain, or shoot like rays of light.
The aurora effect is ellusive, beautiful and mysterious.
Yo are quite right, a camera set to long exposure does work, and the reason is that the effect can start at one point in the sky and sort of grow across. Yo can imagine how hard it woud be to catch that in a telescope. And also unrewarding. Forest for the trees kind of thing.A wide field of view and patience, almost like watching for falling stars. Enjoy and let us know if yo see them
sincerely, me.