Just a reminder, this could be something you will only see once in your life. Since we just got hit with one of the largest CmE Solar Flares in history, you will be able to see the northern lights (as seen in Alaska and such) as far south as Texas and Here in Florida TONIGHT!

WOW!!!

Get our your cameras--get them ready! If you snap some pic's, email them to me at webmaster@ironworksforum.com and I'll post them right here tomorrow or whenever I get one!! I'll be out tonight! [img]smile.gif[/img] (Look to the North around 9PM your time through 3AM).

Should be neat!

[ 10-29-2003, 10:12 AM: Message edited by: Ziroc ]

for real? we well get to see them???? oh wow, at anytime? or just a certain time? and which way is north from my front door? [img]tongue.gif[/img]


I need to go climb that mountain tonight, lol, see if I can find a place looking north

[ 10-29-2003, 10:24 AM: Message edited by: Stormymystic ]

Hey Ziroc, I'm pretty sure I'll miss it, but here in Iceland Northern Lights are pretty common specially in the winter.

here are some very nice pictures of them hope you like... [img]smile.gif[/img]

what time should it be visible in GMT? as i wanna see it...without having to freeze my arse off in alaska or canada or scotland...

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I just can't phantom the idea of being able to see the lights from here in holland.
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Or here in FLORIDA! [img]smile.gif[/img] If I get to see them, It'll be so cool--I'll snap some pics of it if I can!

Bruce-- I don't know, but here at -5 GMT, at 9PM-3AM they should be visable. People reported seeing them even last night! (From the other flare I guess)

That will be SWEET, I will be out and about on the lookout for them tonight then :D :D :D

you can really see them here? that's cool! better my window is facing the north, i might be able to see it from my bed :D

just a question is it all the time or something like falling stars?

What time (central)?

8 our time

Rain & Heavy Cloudcover in the NYC general area tonight. :(

Weee! Too bad its overcast in Edmonton :(

When will they appear eastern time?

8 our time </font>[/QUOTE]Hmmm...I live in San Antonio (Central Time Zone), it was 8:13pm when I went outside, and all I saw in all directions was plenty of stars...do you know how far south it can be seen? Maybe just northern Texas.

anyone in florida see it? i dont:(

I don't but do see something really weird going on with the starts, the look like they are moving in a zig zag patteren back and forth, thought at first it was a sattelite, but all of them are doing it [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]

Nope, I don't see them, Gabrielles. Where abouts in Florida are you? I'm about 3-3.5 hours south of Orlando, and no special effects :( . Then again I live in an area with a lot of light polution. I'm not sure if or how that would affect it.

Ziroc, did you see any lights?

Nothing yet :( , but I'll keep looking till 1AM ish... I hope to see some!

anyone explain the thing with the stars?
never mind, Z osted at the same time as i did :D

[ 10-29-2003, 10:00 PM: Message edited by: Stormymystic ]

That's the gases in the atmosphere making them do that--they ARE blinking brighter/faster tonight.. cool stuff!

I just wish I had not lost my batteries, cuz I would love to take pics of the stars, the look cool here, one a few are flashing many different colors almost at once beautiful, I wish I did not live next to the airport, would be better without all the lights

im about an hour northeast of orlando

In that case you'd see them before I do.

Oh yeah, according to my dad the thunderstorm I saw about 2-4am this morning, with the red clouds, was possibly the result of the Solar Flare. The lighting activity was exceptionally high with little precipitation. It was pretty cool actually.

Where did you come by this information, Z? I just checked and saw nothing, and it would appear to be the same for everyone else. Ah well, maybe they'll be out later, when it starts getting lighter out, but I need sleep. Don't want to get sick [img]smile.gif[/img]

ok, umm how long does any one light show last? is it continuos? or can it happen in a flash? cuz I saw like 3 different orange flashes, while watching the leaves fall from the willow tree :/ am I seeing things, or can they be split second things?

Faint blue light paints the sky near Boston. :D

[ 10-29-2003, 11:49 PM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/1...pooky.auroras/
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/1...are/index.html

And a few others I can't remember. But it will be over tomorrow, BUT, some areas will still see some Auroras on Halloween night! Spoooky! ;)

<font color='white'> Well, its almost 12:30 AM in Central Texas and I haven't seen a thing. :( </font>

<font color = lightgreen>*pout* Far too much light pollution here to see anything. I would have to drive 30 minutes west, north, or east to try and see anything.</font>

Hey according to this report the light-shows will stick around til Friday because another solar storm is on the way.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news...ew-flare_x.htm

[ 10-30-2003, 01:40 AM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ]

Well, I didn't see anything last night :( , but check it out tonight and at dawn Friday Morning:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/1...orm/index.html

Read that article!! [img]smile.gif[/img] It tells all about it. Yet another solar flare is coming... RED ALERT! :D :D