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Posted on 08-03-10 03:11:12 PM Link | Quote
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/03/solar_aurora_storm/

Astroboffins are warning that a mighty "eruption" of superhot plasma has been blasted out of the Sun directly at the Earth. The plasma cloud is expected to reach Earth beginning tomorrow, possibly causing strange phenomena - including a mighty geomagnetic storm which could see the Northern Lights aurorae extend as far south as Blighty or the northern USA.


That's pretty much a summary, go to the article for the rest.

If you're lucky enough to live in the northern USA/Canada or northern Europe/Asia, you might be able to see the Aurora Borealis! I wish the article would give us an exact hour...

I live in Southern Pennsylvania, I'm not sure if I'll be lucky enough...
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Posted on 08-03-10 06:01:38 PM Link | Quote
Cool!

Not sure if the Northern Lights are easily visible here in the city with all the street lights and tall buildings though. I am at about 47.6°N.

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Posted on 08-03-10 06:16:13 PM Link | Quote
I'm around 39.9°N so it'd have to be one very epic storm to make it visible down here :/

I read somewhere that it could probably be seen all the way to south England, London's at 51.5°N so you're pretty close
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Posted on 08-03-10 06:50:22 PM Link | Quote
Man, I would love to see this. Just another downside to living in the desert.

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Posted on 08-03-10 06:51:43 PM Link | Quote
I'll be able to see it.

51.6 N whoooooooo

Go Canadia

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Posted on 08-03-10 07:15:56 PM Link | Quote
Not sure if I'll be able to see it, but I'm considering getting out my AM/FM/shortwave radio to try to pull in distant FM radio stations (I've actually gotten stations from Baltimore, Philadelphia and even Detroit that way sometime last year, all from the Albany area). =D

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Posted on 08-03-10 09:26:57 PM Link | Quote
Darn it, it's getting cloudy to the north ... I'm not sure if they will be visible from here D:

I'm still going outside at around 2AM to make sure ... I don't want to miss this.
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