Topic: Geminid meteor shower reminder :)

Tonight - sorry meant to post yesterday.

Info: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/12dec_geminids.htm

Previously: http://www.ozoneasylum.com/24373

cool! Too bad I worked over and am about damn dog tired. Although I had enough energy to check in at the Asylum and write this meaningless post

Thanks for the info!

Later,

C:\

I ended up staying up for a couple more hours watching the meteor shower. My wife had never seen one so we checked it out. It was a good one, I wish I could have stayed up longer...but I'm old

Later,

C:\

Now let's watch out for this baby

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Tonight - sorry meant to post yesterday.

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Well, suck. I could have watched it Wed night and taken a kid or two. Damn you, Reisio!

- I missed the last shower.
- I missed Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Ah! I just hope someone here is on the ball for No Pants Day and gives plenty of warning. Last I remember, Emps is in charge of No Pants Day. Prolly because he wears robes - *just* robes.

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Aren't we due for Festivus For the Rest of Us?

(Edited by warjournal on 12-15-2006 01:02)

Uber Crap!

Two people came in last night and said that they could see northern lights. Meteor shower and northern lights.

Please someone say you got pics.

Doh! now that you say it I've seen a headline about solar flares interfering with astronaut's communications. It should have ticked. Big waves of solar wind = high probability of northern lights. There's no way I die without seeing ( and hearing ) some!

Grrr... I mis-read my calendar, I thought the Geminids were peaking next week
I was sitting out back last night for a minute and saw one big fireball and thought I just got lucky and caught an early one. I Was thinking next week will be great if there are any big ones already...

How far south were we supposed to be able to see the Northern Lights?

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Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

To see Northern lights you'd rather be far in the North like 65-70º North. OTOH if you want to see Sourthen lights, I guess it's pretty much the same ... but on the South.

I think it's about time we set up an Ozone Calendar to keep track of these important events ... meteor showers, eclipses, pants-related holidays ...

Long time no post..

Got aurora pic here. Saw a few meteors but none of them happened to grace my willing sensor.

nice pic cyoung.

Later,

C:\

Well, you don't always have to be that far north neccessarily. Under normal conditions, yes, way way up north is where you're most likely to be able to see the lights; however, on rare occasions like this, they can be seen much farther south. This time around, they reached as least as far south as Des Moines, IA (~41º N) http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061218.html
Even down into Arizona (34º N) http://spaceweather.com/aurora/images2006/14dec06c/Schur1.jpg
(From: http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01dec06_page5.htm). Granted, that far south and there isn't much to see, but they're still there.

An Ozone calendar for these events sounds good to me

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