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APOD on the main view screen.
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APOD Robot
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by APOD Robot » Thu Mar 19, 2015 4:10 am
Aurora in the Backyard
Explanation: On the night of
March 17/18 this umbrella of northern lights unfolded over backyards in Vallentuna, Sweden about 30 kilometers north of Stockholm. A result of the strongest geomagnetic storm of this solar cycle,
auroral displays were captured on that night
from back and front yards at even lower latitudes, including sightings in the midwestern United States. A boon for
aurora hunting skywatchers, the space storm began building when a
coronal mass ejection, launched by solar activity some two days earlier, struck planet Earth's magnetosphere. So what's the name of the backyard observatory on the right of the wide field view? That's
Carpe Noctem Observatory, of course.
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Beyond
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by Beyond » Thu Mar 19, 2015 4:17 am
Aurora's are nice to look at, but tomorrow's APOD is 'new moon'. I'm waiting to see what the picture looks like.
To find the Truth, you must go Beyond.
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by Boomer12k » Thu Mar 19, 2015 4:51 am
Awesome, and he took it from the Backyard...
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Ann
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by Ann » Thu Mar 19, 2015 5:12 am
They say we had auroras over Malmö, too.
But I was asleep.
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daddyo
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by daddyo » Thu Mar 19, 2015 5:40 am
Ionic umbrella
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JLewis98856
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by JLewis98856 » Thu Mar 19, 2015 6:05 am
What's that stuff in the top of the picture that looks like lightening?
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down to earth
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by down to earth » Thu Mar 19, 2015 6:13 am
Man, that looks so amazing. I wish I could have been there to see that!
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by geckzilla » Thu Mar 19, 2015 6:14 am
JLewis98856 wrote:What's that stuff in the top of the picture that looks like lightening?
Some tree tops, if we're both looking at the same thing.
Just call me "geck" because "zilla" is like a last name.
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by starsurfer » Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:15 am
geckzilla wrote:JLewis98856 wrote:What's that stuff in the top of the picture that looks like lightening?
Some tree tops, if we're both looking at the same thing.
I love it when geckzilla drops some knowledge!
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starsurfer
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by starsurfer » Thu Mar 19, 2015 11:15 am
Beyond wrote:Aurora's are nice to look at, but tomorrow's APOD is 'new moon'. I'm waiting to see what the picture looks like.
Maybe someone has found a new moon of Saturn or Jupiter?
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by Ron-Astro Pharmacist » Thu Mar 19, 2015 4:34 pm
"Magnum diem dictō gratias ago tibi"
http://mentalfloss.com/article/57898/20 ... d-be-using
The list should have included
"good day to say thank you" since we weren't there to
carpe camera but we still got to
sees that awesome night. Kudos to Clear Skies!
(Sorry about the Latin. It's Greek to me. Maybe in my next life I'll know what to use a "meta" for?)
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by BMAONE23 » Thu Mar 19, 2015 4:56 pm
starsurfer wrote:Beyond wrote:Aurora's are nice to look at, but tomorrow's APOD is 'new moon'. I'm waiting to see what the picture looks like.
Maybe someone has found a new moon of Saturn or Jupiter?
NEW MOON: The second in the Twilight Series
The NEW MOON is the only phase the moon can be in during the occurrence of a Solar Eclipse, like the one tomorrow
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by LocalColor » Thu Mar 19, 2015 10:10 pm
We had cloudy skies - but folks south of us were lucky.
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by neufer » Fri Mar 20, 2015 3:21 pm
Beyond wrote:
Aurora's are nice to look at, but tomorrow's APOD is 'new moon'.
I'm waiting to see what the picture looks like.
Actually, a new moon could be rather interesting ...
.. provided, of course, that there are active erupting plumes to be observed:
Now it just so happens that the Dawn spacecraft is biding its time on the '
boring' dark side of Ceres:
However, there just might be active erupting plumes to be observed:
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by Roberto Capacci » Fri Apr 10, 2015 7:35 am
Awesome
