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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
5:37:00 AM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment.
I missed this as the astronomy picture of the day the other day, and I suspect so did you, but let's make up for lost time together as we enjoy Northern Lights over Iowa:
Last Thursday evening, stars were not the only lights in Iowa skies. Spectacular northern lights also shone from the heavens, extending across the midwestern USA and other locations not often graced with auroral displays. The wide-ranging auroral activity was triggered as a large solar flare - an energetic cloud of particles blasted outward from the Sun a few days earlier - collided with planet Earth's magnetosphere. Alerted to conditions ripe for aurora, photographer Stan Richard recorded this apparition over Saylorville Lake, near Des Moines, Iowa, USA.
The night this happened my sky was covered in clouds. Stupid clouds.
Did you see any northern lights last week?
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5:37:00 AM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment.
Holy Cow, This is Pretty
I missed this as the astronomy picture of the day the other day, and I suspect so did you, but let's make up for lost time together as we enjoy Northern Lights over Iowa:
Last Thursday evening, stars were not the only lights in Iowa skies. Spectacular northern lights also shone from the heavens, extending across the midwestern USA and other locations not often graced with auroral displays. The wide-ranging auroral activity was triggered as a large solar flare - an energetic cloud of particles blasted outward from the Sun a few days earlier - collided with planet Earth's magnetosphere. Alerted to conditions ripe for aurora, photographer Stan Richard recorded this apparition over Saylorville Lake, near Des Moines, Iowa, USA.
The night this happened my sky was covered in clouds. Stupid clouds.
Did you see any northern lights last week?
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dear John
thanks for this entry! very interesting!
umm. no! I missed it!
sounds like it was great!
love,nat -
That is a spectacular display, Beautiful. Helen
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If I was getting high as that happened, I'd rub my eyes for a few seconds before I realized what I was looking at.
12/21/06 11:14 PM