Is that star feeling ok??

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:59 am

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20012520-17.html

Looks about like a movie or game star getting ready to go nova. LOL

Website · Post by **Cody** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:04 am

Yeah, I've been watching this. Look out for aurorae.

Dave McRoss · Post by **Dave McRoss** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:08 pm

El Viejo, have you ever seen an aurorae borealis? I wanna see one, but my latitude is too low

Website · Post by **Cody** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 2:23 pm

I’m only at 51.5° N… but there’s way too much light pollution around here anyway, even if it came this far south. Many years ago, when I was working in Scotland, and also when in Norway, I caught a few glimpses occasionly, but I’ve never seen a full-on show.
Like you, I’ve always wanted to see it in all it’s glory.

The same with a total solar eclipse… the only time I got near to a zone of totality, it was a horribly cloudy day.

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 4:02 pm

El Viejo wrote:
I’m only at 51.5° N… but there’s way too much light pollution around here anyway, even if it came this far south. Many years ago, when I was working in Scotland, and also when in Norway, I caught a few glimpses occasionly, but I’ve never seen a full-on show.
Like you, I’ve always wanted to see it in all it’s glory.

Likewise...I imagine it's awesome.

El Viejo wrote:
The same with a total solar eclipse… the only time I got near to a zone of totality, it was a horribly cloudy day.

Same here...went all the way down to the West Country a few years ago with high hopes and funny glasses, but the clouds spoilt the show. The experience was still pretty amazing, though.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:49 pm

Smivs wrote:
El Viejo wrote:
I’m only at 51.5° N… but there’s way too much light pollution around here anyway, even if it came this far south. Many years ago, when I was working in Scotland, and also when in Norway, I caught a few glimpses occasionly, but I’ve never seen a full-on show.
Like you, I’ve always wanted to see it in all it’s glory.
Likewise...I imagine it's awesome.
El Viejo wrote:
The same with a total solar eclipse… the only time I got near to a zone of totality, it was a horribly cloudy day.
Same here...went all the way down to the West Country a few years ago with high hopes and funny glasses, but the clouds spoilt the show. The experience was still pretty amazing, though.

Same here! Presuming it was the same eclipse and the same cloud cover!

Website · Post by **Cody** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:56 pm

Cornwall... eleventh of August 1999?

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:58 pm

Yup! There was a brief break in the clouds where I was at about 99% totality - everybody cheered - then the cloud came back over and everybody booed!

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:23 pm

I've read somewhere at the time that actually the eclipse caused the clouds. Something with the temperatures dropping due to the decreased intensity of the sun. Although now that I'm typing it that doesn't make much sense, or else we should get clouds every evening...

Anyway, I didn't watch the eclipse in Cologne, where the sky was completely covered with clouds the whole morning, which made the scenery quite dark from the beginning. And only after the eclipse—which I didn't see—was over I recognized why for some time it had seemed still dimmer yet. Ironically the sky cleared up considerably in the afternoon.

Commander Smivs · Post by **Smivs** » Wed Aug 04, 2010 10:25 pm

El Viejo wrote:
Cornwall... eleventh of August 1999?

That's it. Still an experience though. The birds were weird and it really did get cold for a while, as well as dark.

Dave McRoss · Post by **Dave McRoss** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 9:38 am

Luckily I managed to watch the eclipse of 11 August 1999. It was a nice weather day in Tuscany, perhaps a little cloud formations in the sky but nothing worrying.

snork · Post by **snork** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:08 am

~~I am at 52°10" North, too.~~ No, I am at 54°20" - don't know where the wrog numbers came from.

Summer 2003 or 04 (or maybe 2002? I forget) we had something borealis. It was late night when my roommate called me out in the garden where he was sitting and there was like a really large dark-red glowing cloud.
At first it was actually a bit scary. It moved along very slowly.

I was very much surprised to see such phenomenon, so "south" as it is here. Felt very special.

Killer Wolf · Post by **Killer Wolf** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:16 am

was told we'd be able to see the aurora after midnight up here in the North East, but i saw nowt

don't think it was just light pollution either, just think it was a no-show. effing typical, had clear skies too. usually some great astral event is due and we magically get cloud cover 6 hours before until 6 hours after >:-\

Website · Post by **Cody** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:23 am

I was monitoring the sat pics until late last night. The pretty stuff was as far south as 60º N, and there was some faint stuff down as far as 50º N, but conditions were bad here. A friend phoned me and said he’d seen some faint flickers, but that was all.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 10:12 am

A couple of nice aurora vids from the other day.