Northern Lights
 

It would appear that the world's northern hemisphere is experiencing massive amounts of northern light activity right now...

All of these pics were taken in the last 24 hours.
http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather...y_01oct02.html

I live in Montreal, which is usually a bit too far south to see much Auroral activity, but last night we got a nice show right off our back deck.

Kinda like this.....
<img src="http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/aurora/images/01oct02/page1/Fronczak1.jpg">

Maybe it has something to do with the recent ozone depletion.


http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...amdf118122.jpg

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...161/2cuzw.html

:confused:

The magnetic poles are shifting... thus, so is the planet... a bit. This causes the light show to shift as well, since it's kinda reflecting in on us from the North.

They say that the magnetic north pole will leave Canada very soon actually!! Here is a blurb from some scientists...

"At its current velocity, Mag North will move out of Canada's waters by 2005, and if it continues on its present path, it will be just off the coast of Siberia in about 50 years."

This is as it stands now... however, it tends to shift constantly... and is always "wobbly" which is why it's been stuck within Canadian borders for the past 400 years.

Anyway, that's my science lesson for today.. enjoy :D

Well, Chris & I will be watching out for it tonight! :D Maybe even try to get a few pics!

That's an interesting article, PD... however I don't think that northern lights have much to do with the depletion of the earth's ozone layer. More to do with solar flares on the sun, and sunspots.

We get some really fantastic light shows here in the winter, they actually started around the first week of august, which is about a month to early,
Ill see if i can get that digital cam of mine to get pics of it, if not I have a night mode on my digital mini-dv cam

If you go to the 10th one down, youll see how bright they are here, that is taken here in edmonton.

Beautifal celestial light show Chris:D

I remember when I was about 8 seeing the Southern Lights and being by myself at the time, my overactive childhood imagination decided we were being invaded and I ran all the way home. lmao:happy:

Ericka... yes please.... I would love to see pics from your backyard!

Southern lights huh? Now that's something I hadn't heard of. I'm going to look that up. Do you know of any sites with nice pics?
We couldn't see anything here last night as it was overcast and raining. But from what I have been reading, the lightshow won't be letting up for at least a month.

Guyz, these pics r just the ones i see when i abuse of flyin' cigarettes...

:bonk:

i've always wanted to see the lights in person, tv and pics just don't do it justice, closest we'll come down here is if an oil refinery blows up ::-|

FunB,

WHERE did you get that avatar??? You have my favorite lil blue fuzzy guy!! I Loooooove Eeyore!! He has always been my favorite cartoon character!

twinkley

"thanks for noticin me"

Do you REALLY believe we have an ozone layer depletion? Give me a break..

next thing you know, you'll believe we sent a man to the moon.

Oh sure... like that is ever going to happen...

shiit I thought this was a weed thread

landing on the moon?? Must have happened... just look at this startling evidence.... to the contrary!

http://www.masktv.com/stuart/Hoax.jpg

My parents are from Finland and my mom says the Northern Lights were always beautiful to see.. I've never seen them myself.


The pics are beautiful !!

Kind of like last year when the sky was full of meteor showers.. that was pretty to see.. so many "falling stars"

:)

It's a gorgeous clear evening here tonight... but no light-show...
Oh well....

Stuart... You're starting to make a believer (or non-believer) out of me with that URL.

Thank you Stuart.

I HATE IE6.0 sometimes!!!

Does anyone know how to make it STOP resizing pictures to the window? Anything with text becomes totally unreadable, even in full screen mode!

twinkley

Twinkley...

Tools> Internet Options> Advanced> Multimedia> Enable Automatic Image Re-sizing

Just un-check that box...

Chris,

I *knew* there was a reason you were my hero!!

Thanks!!

twinkley

:blush:

Oh man!! I saw them for the first time last month!! It was spectacular!! One of the most beautiful sites (phenomena) I have ever witnessed!!

The sky opened right up and some of the colors were amazing...truly one of the best camping experience's ever!!

Really?? And about this camping trip... was there other girls involved? Uhhm.. skinny dipping by any chance?

Up late... watching the northern lights, all huddled in one sleeping bag?

Oops, sorry... my mind wandered for a minute there... sorry, where were we? :bonk:

Fantasy boy...yes there were other women involved, my mom and my sister :nuts: case!!


Oh and hey Chris what's with this :salute: and no Canadian flag :(

Canadians have their own flag huh?

:salute:

Gee's it's true some of you are really unedumacated! :bonk: LOL

Good point! We need a Canadian Flag in here eh?

Uh yea eh! LOL