http://astroblogger.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/aurora-alert-january-9-10-2014.html
I think I might go up Mt Rouse after dark tonight and look South.
I’d love to see an aurora.
“This is anticipated to arrive at Earth on January 9 (Thursday) around 08:00 UT (which is 19:00 AEDST) +/- 7 hours! (so it could arrive as early as midday or as late as 2 am on the morning of the 10th).”
+- 7 Hours?
Ta buffy, I’ll keep my eyes peeled.
Peak Warming Man said:
“This is anticipated to arrive at Earth on January 9 (Thursday) around 08:00 UT (which is 19:00 AEDST) +/- 7 hours! (so it could arrive as early as midday or as late as 2 am on the morning of the 10th).”+- 7 Hours?
depends on how fast the material is traveling pwm.
not sure we get a lot of aurora in Boganville.
Peak Warming Man said:
“This is anticipated to arrive at Earth on January 9 (Thursday) around 08:00 UT (which is 19:00 AEDST) +/- 7 hours! (so it could arrive as early as midday or as late as 2 am on the morning of the 10th).”+- 7 Hours?
how long does the show typically last for?
Just drove out the road – I’m not going up the mountain on my own and Mr buffy is not interested – and there is too much moonlight. I’ll check as best I can in the small hours if I wake up. I think there is a band of seamist down there near Warrnambool too, which is not all that helpful.
will depend on how long the solar wind is…ie if it is a short burst then not long, if a long burst then a long time. parts of an hour to hours.
buffy said:
Just drove out the road – I’m not going up the mountain on my own and Mr buffy is not interested – and there is too much moonlight. I’ll check as best I can in the small hours if I wake up. I think there is a band of seamist down there near Warrnambool too, which is not all that helpful.
clear as a bell here tonight, but bright moon and a few street lights to the south to contend with, might just check every 15-20 mins and see if i catch any
I have an aurora as a screensaver. Someone posted it here. Kingy, perhaps. I’ve never seen one, but would like to. If reports start do come in, I might take a drive down to the sand dunes to see if there is anything visible.
morrie said:
I have an aurora as a screensaver. Someone posted it here. Kingy, perhaps. I’ve never seen one, but would like to. If reports start do come in, I might take a drive down to the sand dunes to see if there is anything visible.
yeah, i’ve never seen one irl before,would be good to check it off my list before i leave Tas
From Melbourne should you look north south east or west please advise advise.
bob(from black rock) said:
From Melbourne should you look north south east or west please advise advise.
south
The Moon is at First Quarter, so will not interfere much, and will be low in the late evening if the storm arrives later. As always, look to the south and look for shifting glows (greenish red for Tassie and NZ, red for Victoria and WA), dark sky sites are best.
from the OP.
morrie said:
bob(from black rock) said:
From Melbourne should you look north south east or west please advise advise.
Probably south I think, bob
. Ta morrie
bob(from black rock) said:
From Melbourne should you look north south east or west please advise advise.
Either North or South, depending on which aurora you are looking for.
JudgeMental said:
south
, Thanks JudgeMental, off to have a shufftie
Carmen_Sandiego said:
Either North or South, depending on which aurora you are looking for.
I forgot all about it. Just had a peep out there now and there’s a bit of glow down south, but nothing definite. I’ll check again later.
Bubblecar said:
I forgot all about it. Just had a peep out there now and there’s a bit of glow down south, but nothing definite. I’ll check again later.
Just went down to Black Rock and looked out over the Bay nice and dark over the water, but not a sausage of aurora.
Nite folks.
buffy said:
Just drove out the road – I’m not going up the mountain on my own and Mr buffy is not interested – and there is too much moonlight. I’ll check as best I can in the small hours if I wake up. I think there is a band of seamist down there near Warrnambool too, which is not all that helpful.
don’t blame it on the sunshine
don’t blame it on the moonshine
don’t blame it on the good times
blame it on the boogey
just discovered the mint slices have been eaten and taken over my brain
Either North or South, depending on which aurora you are looking for.
You’re terrible Muriel!
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Unless you are at a pole…
Then East or west will do fine.
blame it on the boogey
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I just can’t
I just can’t
I just can’t
Control myself…
it shows
Then East or west will do fine.
if you’re at the south pole then all roads lead north.
if you’re at the south pole then all roads lead north.
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Meh, take one step to clear the sleep from your eyes…
nowt wrong with my eyes or logic.
nowt wrong with my eyes or logic.
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Your English man however..
Nought or naught but not Nowt, no not never.
nowt is yorkshire dialect, me mum’s from yorkshire.
you could always do a cleopatra’s needle approach and dig a trench and pull the post up and concrete into place.
you obviously need to clear the local tree line to find the phone tower
you could always make a balloon and send it aloft when you need signal
I grew up in Ballarat, and one night went outside to discover that the southern sky was glowing red. I initially thought it was a big bushfire (there are large areas of bush to the south of Ballarat), but then noticed the sweeping bands of other colours gyrating through it. I hadn’t heard of aurorae begore then, and didn’t find out what it was until the next day at school; it continued for several days, and I haven’t seen one since.
more a general northern dialect.
the balloon wouldn’t need any approval
though you might have the odd UFO being called in and your area being inundated with investigators
JudgeMental said:
nowt is yorkshire dialect, me mum’s from yorkshire.
west riding
grandmother was sent there for the blitz and went back!! she saw a doctor with my mother and the doctor exploded when he saw she had taken a child back into a bombing zone
nowt is yorkshire dialect, me mum’s from yorkshire.
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OK I’ll pay that.
But stick your arms out, while standing on the (ever shifting) point of the poles, and East and West are all around you…
Wocky said:
I grew up in Ballarat, and one night went outside to discover that the southern sky was glowing red. I initially thought it was a big bushfire (there are large areas of bush to the south of Ballarat), but then noticed the sweeping bands of other colours gyrating through it. I hadn’t heard of aurorae begore then, and didn’t find out what it was until the next day at school; it continued for several days, and I haven’t seen one since.
what year was that?
morrie said:
I have an aurora as a screensaver. Someone posted it here. Kingy, perhaps. I’ve never seen one, but would like to. If reports start do come in, I might take a drive down to the sand dunes to see if there is anything visible.
Probably myself. I’m the only poster here who has actually photographed an Aurora, to my knowledge.
How long do they last? I spotted one that was here two nights running and they were both still going strong when I decided to go to bed.
These were taken @ 34ºS
CrazyNeutrino said:
Wocky said:I grew up in Ballarat, and one night went outside to discover that the southern sky was glowing red. I initially thought it was a big bushfire (there are large areas of bush to the south of Ballarat), but then noticed the sweeping bands of other colours gyrating through it. I hadn’t heard of aurorae begore then, and didn’t find out what it was until the next day at school; it continued for several days, and I haven’t seen one since.
what year was that?
Just after Halley’s Comet, around 1988/9
so, no joy then? I looked a couple of times, but only from the back yard. Nothing of note.
buffy said:
so, no joy then? I looked a couple of times, but only from the back yard. Nothing of note.
I saw no sign of it but there was not what I’d call clear skies.
But stick your arms out, while standing on the (ever shifting) point of the poles, and East and West are all around you…
well the magnetic poles shift about 80km a day in a circular pattern whose average centre shifts about 60km a year. if you stood on one of those, we’ll imagine that the pole was stationary for a while, then you would have the usual compass points as this pole isn’t aligned with the geographical pole. if on the other hand you were on the geographical pole you would have more chance that every direction was towards the opposite pole as this one only wanders a few metres a year. though one would imagine that for cartographic simplicity this slight wander is ignored. so even though you may not be on the actual pole itself you would be on the datum point an so every direction would be towards the opposite pole.
I think we need to resolve the important question of directions at the Poles.
If you are standing exactly at the geographic South Pole, with your nose aligned with the Greenwich Meridian, then your left eye will be looking East, and your right eye will be looking West.
HTH
no they’ll both be looking north.
hth.
JudgeMental said:
no they’ll both be looking north.hth.
They won’t be looking north because neither are located at the pole.
The Rev Dodgson said:
JudgeMental said:
no they’ll both be looking north.hth.
They won’t be looking north because neither are located at the pole.
Unless you are really cross-eyed of course.
or one eyed.