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Offline rodekyll

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Aurora Alert -- spiking now
« 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.
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Re: Aurora Alert -- spiking now
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Aurora Alert -- spiking now
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2015, 10:20:49 AM »
We must be in the same line of work.
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Re: Aurora Alert -- spiking now
« Reply #3 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
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Re: Aurora Alert -- spiking now
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: Aurora Alert -- spiking now
« Reply #5 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!
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Re: Aurora Alert -- spiking now
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2015, 08:47:30 PM »
  About a half an hour ago from Northern Arizona. Moon,Venus and Mars   
« Last Edit: February 20, 2015, 08:52:01 PM by RinkRat II »
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