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Re: Polar lights
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 8, 13:50 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Nov 8, 13:50 -0500
Yes. Even more suprising was to see it at lat 40 N. A specialist in geophysics with whom I spoke this morning confirmed that there were unusually strong magnetic storms recently. (If I knew in advance I'd look at my compass, but unfortunately I was completely unprepared to see aurora borealis on this latitude, and did not recognize what I was seeing yesterday). Only now I recall that something unusual was going on with electric power in my home last night. But I did not connect these two things then and cannot say that they were related. On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Mike Boersma wrote: > At 42d 17.2' N, 85d 44.5'W the aurora borealis had more color, being a > bluish color at when I looked at about 2315 EST. It is unusual to see > aurora effects south of 45dN. I would imagine that north of 45dN there > would be even more color. Any word on excessive radio interference or > GPS loss of performance due to strong solar flare activity? > > Michael Boersma