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Graysith

Chosen Daughter
Member # 27

posted 08-17-2000 11:04 PM

OK guys, here is what I am talking about. This is a picture of the Northern Lights seen over Iowa (Aurora Borealis) on the night of August 11-12, 2000.

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Graysith

Chosen Daughter
Member # 27

posted 08-17-2000 11:08 PM

Here's one with a Perseid meteor shooting through (hope it shows, the meteor is a tiny little streak....)

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Posts: 3904 | From: Indianola, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2000 | Logged: 209.255.159.17

Graysith

Chosen Daughter
Member # 27

posted 08-17-2000 11:10 PM

One last picture of Fire in the Sky!

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BobPalpatine

Foo Fighter
Member # 17

posted 08-17-2000 11:49 PM

Great pictures...where'd ya get em from. I use to check out Nasa.com every once in a while back at my old school and I really like veiwing stuff like this.

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BobPalpatine
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Gouyen Chee

Member
Member # 31

posted 08-18-2000 12:04 AM

Kewl pics, Graysith. It kinda makes one wonder what van Gogh's famous painting "Starry Night" might have look if he had lived a bit farther north....

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*Gouyen*

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Graysith

Chosen Daughter
Member # 27

posted 08-18-2000 01:16 AM

Thank you, Gouyen. And Bob, these pics were taken (as I stood nearby!) by one of the members of the Des Moines Astronomical Society, of which I am a member in good standing and past Treasurer. I have other astro pics if anyone is interested....

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BobPalpatine

Foo Fighter
Member # 17

posted 08-18-2000 02:09 AM

I love this stuff...I took astronomy this yeat and this is great stuff...

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BobPalpatine
Holonet Moderator

Posts: 681 | From: St. Charles, MO, USA | Registered: Jun 2000 | Logged: 204.184.55.37

Graysith

Chosen Daughter
Member # 27

posted 08-18-2000 10:17 AM

I'll keep this type of thing coming! Ani is "making it happen" for me to be able to upload pics here without having to bother him about it (I think) ~ then I'll keep more astro pics coming. I have a great one of the Milky Way, and somewhere I have one I took of the Orion Nebula (need to get it scanned first, though). Oh yeah, I have some of Comets Hyakutake and Hale-Bopp, too.

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Posts: 3904 | From: Indianola, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2000 | Logged: 209.255.158.122

Gouyen Chee

Member
Member # 31

posted 08-18-2000 03:26 PM

Oh boy, oh boy -- nice piccies of the comets I actually saw from my backyard -- YAY!!

I remember comet Hyakutake as a big fuzzy ball up in the northwest. Hale-Bopp actually looked like a comet, with a nice tail and all. It put on quite a show

Keep 'em coming Graysith!

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*Gouyen*

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Graysith

Chosen Daughter
Member # 27

posted 08-26-2000 06:35 PM

OK, here's one last auroral shot. This is not the same event that produced the auroral display in the above photos, but rather another full-halo mass coronal ejection (fancy word for "solar flare") that occurred in April of this year. Also, this picture was not taken in Iowa, but in Canada, so the aurora is a bit more intense (farther north).

Since the sun is in the peak of its sunspot cycle, which produces solar flares, which in turn intensifies auroral displays on the Earth, and since this "interval of peak activity" will go on for perhaps another 6 months or so, we can look for more auroras occurring in areas farther south than normally expected. I will keep you updated.