northern lights

[low_delta]

This is pretty much what it looked like when I saw it. Only not as bright, due to the magic of long exposure times.



http://www.jsonline.com/photo/callphoto.asp?date=11/7/2004

Comments

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

Very nice. I've only ever seen a grey-white curtain show, but i've always wanted to see the greens and pinks. :-)

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

GET YOURSELF to the interior of Alaska.. say Fairbanks in the winter time (say November or December) and see the reds oranges, greens, blues all together in the sky. And get yourself out of a populated area so you can HEAR the sound they make while they dance. It really IS awesome.

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

They make a sound?? Ohhhhhhhh! What does it sound like?

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

it's like a faint crackle or a waving hissssss!

it has to be dead silent out to hear them.......and it has to be a very active display

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

I lived close to Delta Junction for three years in the mid seventies while I was in high school. I heard them many many times when I got off post.

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

i've never heard them in anchorage..........only in less noisy places

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

I recall hearing them once close to Anchorage.. at the galloping glacier? I think that was where it was. I was out in the wilderness a lot while there, as my dad liked taking us to out of the way places, always in the woods camping. Ft. Greely was pretty much in the middle of nowhere, so it was easy to hear and see them all the time.

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

they will not be visible tonight.....too much weather has blown in from the south...we have overcast and potential rain.....:(

at least i got to ski on the snow at lunch today......

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

:(

We didn't get much in the way of "other people's weather" in the interior from what I recall. It never rained the entire three years I was there. I really REALLY missed rain.

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

well, there's a big storm coming in and i think some will push up that way

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

They won't know what hit them. *grin*

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

If you say the sound of the letter "e" very fast, over and over again in a whisper, that is close to the sound.

I was in a choir and one year, we had an opera singer as a director at state competition. She wrote an "ode" to the northern lights after seeing a particularly active display one night while we were at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. It started off as waves of "e" from the combined choirs from all over the state, then we went into "a" "l" "a" "s" "k" "a" all in wispers in different notes, in waves of tone and intensity. It was STUNNING.

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

That sounds gorgeous! Absolutely...

Say, would you mind if I added you as a friend?

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

Ya goota check-out picis of Raven's garden... she's got a house hidden in the middle of it somewhere. :-)

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

Not at all.. I will add you back :).. and Mars is right.. I have an open garden journal called RavensGarden that has pictures of my gardens as well.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I know, I've seen the pictures. :-) And I know this time looked better in some of those places too, but I thought someone might be interested in what it looked like from here.

[banana.livejournal.com]

Also on my friends page today:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041109.html

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[banana.livejournal.com]

apod

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Also excellent!

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

I love apod! I haven't looked at it in far too long, though. Thank you for the reminder!

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

we had the greens starting up last night at about 8pm when i was outside clearing the driveway

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I forgot to check last night.

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

you can always check the forecast..
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/predict.cgi
click on custom maps for your area.....

there's an e-mail notification of auroral alerts, also.....

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I see the aurora will be green over Canada, with a red line dipping into northern wisconsin.

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

perhaps you can see it on the horizon?.......green is overhead.....

it's just one of the things i take for granted living here in alaska

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I doubt it. The red line was way on the northern edge of the state. That's, like, a six hour drive. I'll ook, though, if I remember.

[vlinker.livejournal.com]

all shots not taken miss the goal......

old hockey proverb

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I forgot until around 11:00, and there was nothing.

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

Nice!

Check out the POES web site...
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/

The N. Hemi map gives decent predictions of where / how far south the aurora streatch.

http://spaceweather.com/ also gives some great science that can be used to help predict ion storms. :-) I hadn't thought about these sites in several months, until I followed the link in your comment. Thanks!