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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:29:51 -0500
From: SpaceWeather.com <swlist@spaceweather.com>
To: SpaceWeather.com <swlist@spaceweather.com>
Subject: Halloween Solar Flares

Space Weather News for Oct. 30, 2004
http://spaceweather.com

SOLAR FLARES: Solar activity increased sharply on Oct. 30th. The source is fast-growing sunspot 691, which has unleashed several strong flares, including a brief X-flare. Some of these explosions may have hurled coronal mass ejections (CMEs) toward Earth; if so, sky watchers at high latitudes might see spooky auroras in the nights ahead.

HALLOWEEN: Believe it or not, Halloween has roots in astronomy: it's a "cross-quarter" holiday approximately midway between an equinox and a solstice. Get the details at http://www.spaceweather.com.
 
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Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:12:03 -0600
From: NASA Science News <snglist@lyris.msfc.nasa.gov>
To: NASA Science News <snglist@lyris.msfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Spellbinding Planets

NASA Science News for November 2, 2004

You won't want to miss this: Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets, will be beautifully close together just before sunrise on Thursday, Nov. 4th, and Friday, Nov. 5th.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/02nov_venusjupiter.htm?list1059212


Science@NASA stories are available in Spanish at our sister site, Ciencia@NASA <http://ciencia.nasa.gov/>.
 
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:14:44 -0600
From: SpaceWeather.com <swlist@spaceweather.com>
To: SpaceWeather.com <swlist@spaceweather.com>
Subject: Weekend auroras and early Leonids

Space Weather News for Nov. 5, 2004
http://spaceweather.com

AURORA WATCH: A series of explosions from sunspot 696 on Nov. 3rd through 5th hurled some coronal mass ejections toward Earth, and they're due to arrive this weekend. Sky watchers in, e.g., Canada, Alaska, and northern-tier US states should be alert for auroras.

EARLY LEONIDS? The annual Leonid meteor shower normally peaks around the 19th of November. This year, however, there might be an extra, early peak on Nov. 8th when Earth passes close to a 1000-year-old stream of dust from Comet Tempel-Tuttle. The precise location of this old stream is uncertain. Forecasters estimate, tentatively, a meteor rate of 50 to 100 per hour--much less than the great Leonid displays of recent years, but still pleasing. Sky watchers in parts of Europe, Africa and Asia are best-positioned to see the Nov. 8th display--if it happens!

Visit http://spaceweather.com for more information and updates.
 
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 17:47:42 -0600
From: SpaceWeather.com <swlist@spaceweather.com>
To: SpaceWeather.com <swlist@spaceweather.com>
Subject: Solar activity intensifies, aurora watch extended to Nov. 9th

Space Weather News for Nov. 7, 2004
http://spaceweather.com

Big sunspot 696 unleashed an X-class solar flare on Sunday, Nov. 7th, and probably hurled another coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. Solar wind conditions are favorable for a geomagnetic storm now (late Nov. 7th) and may become even more so when the CME arrives. Sky watchers: be alert for auroras on Nov. 7th, 8th and 9th. The best time to look is usually around local midnight.

Visit http://spaceweather.com for more information and updates
 
Well hopefully it won't effect Lit. We're just gettting used to the upgrade.

Cell phones and stuff could have issues with these flares?
 
The blanket of night over our heads has some truly neat stuff for us to see. :)
 
nitengale said:
The blanket of night over our heads has some truly neat stuff for us to see. :)


If you can see through the glow of the city lights!

But a nice thought anyhow.

:rose: :rose:

Lloyd
 
Lloyd2004 said:
If you can see through the glow of the city lights!

But a nice thought anyhow.

:rose: :rose:

Lloyd

Who said I had city lights to worry about? :)
 
But then again you may not be looking at the sky, but into your lovers starry eyes!!

:p :p
Lloyd
:rose:
 
gypsywitch said:
Well hopefully it won't effect Lit. We're just gettting used to the upgrade.

Cell phones and stuff could have issues with these flares?

Depending on the intensity of the flare, the side of the planet facing the sun when the sun matter hits will see an effect to any devices which work of radio frequencies. With this particular flare, it will likely be additional white noice heard in the received transmissions. Digital radio devices will have a tendency to appear to lose parts of the transmission if the data is white noise covered enough.

This current flares were a M6 and then a X1. So it's large, but nothing like the X20 on 2 April 2001. The flare which was powerful enough to disrupt power grids in Canada in March 1989 was classified as an X15.
 
nitengale said:
We have some lights. :) I'm just not in the thick of it.

Lucky you, a clear night sky is something to behold, like when Armstrong stepped upon the moon!
:rose: :kiss:
Lloyd
 
Just yesterday I said that I must need a new car radio antenna, because even local stuff had some static.
 
crap.... I missed this. I don't have that great of a chance to see the Northern lights from where I live anyway but it would have been nice to know ahead of time and at least look....
 
huskie said:
crap.... I missed this. I don't have that great of a chance to see the Northern lights from where I live anyway but it would have been nice to know ahead of time and at least look....

didn't miss it all yet. They expect them to keep happening until the 9th.
 
linuxgeek said:
didn't miss it all yet. They expect them to keep happening until the 9th.

Tonight should be good with the Leonids and the aroura . Do you have a timeframe on the leonids. I didnt see it on the site.
 
gman23 said:
Tonight should be good with the Leonids and the aroura . Do you have a timeframe on the leonids. I didnt see it on the site.

This is what is on the main page of http://spaceweather.com:

LEONID METEORS: Sky watchers in Europe and Asia should be on the lookout for a flurry of shooting stars, as many as 100 per hour, on Nov. 8th around 2330 GMT. That's when Earth is expected to plow through a 1000-year-old stream of dust from comet Tempel-Tuttle--the parent of the Leonid meteor shower.

The details link they provide bounces over to a French site.
 
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