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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: Fansome on March 18, 2015, 2306 UTC

Title: 23 Incredible Photos of the Northern Lights From Tuesday's Solar Storm
Post by: Fansome on March 18, 2015, 2306 UTC

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a14616/northern-lights-photos-solar-storm-in-the-usa/?src=spr_TWITTER&spr_id=1457_158097867

Title: Re: 23 Incredible Photos of the Northern Lights From Tuesday's Solar Storm
Post by: Skipmuck on March 19, 2015, 0012 UTC

Despite several trips out to the backyard last night from 0030-0330 UTC and a frigid 0730 UTC early morning trip to the back deck in my bathrobe, I was not rewarded with a light show :( Fortunately, I was an obsessed shortwave enthusiast when the massive March 1989 flare resulted in about an hour or so of green and red colors across the sky and large shifting formations of shifting light patterns here in Springfield, Massachusetts. Of course, shortwave reception was abysmal that evening, but I made it a point to call up half a dozen family and friends to alert them to this wondrous display. But it would be nice to see another auroral display in my lifetime!