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Title: Aurora Alert -- spiking now
Post by: rodekyll on February 17, 2015, 07:53:08 PM

Looks like a solar storm in progress.  We've got a partly cloudy night ahead, so I'll be out trying for some -- and for my first look at the comet.  It's directly under the left lower point of Cassiopeia tonight, if anyone has the urge to look.  It's at +5 brightness, which is right at the threshold for your peripheral vision.  Binocs would be handy.

Title: Re: Aurora Alert -- spiking now
Post by: lucydad on February 17, 2015, 08:02:32 PM

Clear and cold here tonight...but my motivation is low.

Yet another reason to retire from my irrelevant career working with bullshitters:  late nights pondering the Universe.

Title: Re: Aurora Alert -- spiking now
Post by: slowmover on February 18, 2015, 10:20:49 AM

We must be in the same line of work.

Title: Re: Aurora Alert -- spiking now
Post by: Nic in Western NYS on February 20, 2015, 03:46:27 PM

Unrelated astro post- Moon, Venus, and Mars together in the evening sky tonight and tomorrow.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/observing-news/venus-mars-at-dusk-02132015/?et_mid=726666&rid=247484513

Title: Re: Aurora Alert -- spiking now
Post by: Sasquatch Jim on February 20, 2015, 03:51:41 PM

  It will have to spark without my help.
  If it won't see fit to make itself visible below the tropic of cancer,
  I'm not going to help it at all.

Title: Re: Aurora Alert -- spiking now
Post by: rodekyll on February 20, 2015, 04:34:24 PM

We have a rare, clear night forecast.  No aurora activity that I can find, so I'll amuse myself with the planet alignment.  Thanks for the heads-up!

Title: Re: Aurora Alert -- spiking now
Post by: RinkRat II on February 20, 2015, 08:47:30 PM

  About a half an hour ago from Northern Arizona. Moon,Venus and Mars   (http://i1272.photobucket.com/albums/y395/paulcony/100_5482_zpsh29lwrhs.jpg)