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Solar Storm

24-10-2003 5:09pm

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#2 24-10-2003 9:57pm

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I think we might have some starting here in Mayo. I was wondering why there was still a light in the sky when I got off the bus an hour ago.

My phone was cutting out on the way home too...

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#3 24-10-2003 11:40pm

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When is the aurora expected in the sky above ireland if at all ?
Have never seen one before, would be enlightening if it happened

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#4 24-10-2003 11:44pm

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thats funny cos my phone was not making calls i just kept getting call failed for most of the night, had to ring a few times to get through to a numer

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#5 25-10-2003 7:16am

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I'd heard around 11 pm onwarrds, but didn't notice anything here and the skies were clear.
I heard David Moore of Astronomy Ireland talking about this on the Last word on today fm yesterday.
More local details here of course

mm

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#6 29-10-2003 10:33am

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And another http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/28/solar.flare/index.html

This one is said to be an x17, compared to the x3 from last week, oh and, an x15 knocked out power in canada in the 80's lovely!

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#7 29-10-2003 7:23pm

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Originally posted by gurramok
When is the aurora expected in the sky above ireland if at all ?

right now. my 2nd time seeing it but it is freezing to be outside looking at it

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#8 29-10-2003 7:28pm

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I've just been outside Mossy and I cant see anything except stars...only 30 miles from you.

Mike.

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#9 29-10-2003 7:30pm

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I can see it up here!

It's more like a misty brightness in the northern sky to my eyes and wavy in pattern.

mm

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#10 29-10-2003 7:41pm

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Originally posted by mike65
I've just been outside Mossy and I cant see anything except stars...only 30 miles from you.

Mike.

hmmmmmmm

is the northen lights a localised thing by any chance because a friend of mine 4 miles away says she can't see it either

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#11 29-10-2003 7:48pm

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We've a few shower clouds here, but otherwise probably the best display I've seen. There's a band of light over about half the sky and beams of light stretching up towards zenith.

/me wraps up warmly...

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#12 29-10-2003 8:34pm

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Originally posted by sunbeam
We've a few shower clouds here, but otherwise probably the best display I've seen. There's a band of light over about half the sky and beams of light stretching up towards zenith.

/me wraps up warmly...

Thats more or less exactly what I can see here in Wicklow

The beams of light look almost like sprays of light.

mm

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#13 29-10-2003 10:21pm

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Not fair! I'm going outside for a while, I may be gone some time...

Mike.

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#14 29-10-2003 11:26pm

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#15 29-10-2003 11:31pm

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anyone spoted it from limerick or there abouts?

I cant see anything.. what time is it suppose to end at ?

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#16 29-10-2003 11:32pm

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Originally posted by sunbeam
We've a few shower clouds here, but otherwise probably the best display I've seen. There's a band of light over about half the sky and beams of light stretching up towards zenith.

Same thing up here in NE Donegal. Good weather for it, but it was nothing like one that I saw sometime around 1990. It was lighting up like the ones in the cheesy Coca-Cola Christmas ads with the polar bears.

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#17 29-10-2003 11:33pm

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Well it clouded over here around half nine, but before that it looked much better than on TV.

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#18 29-10-2003 11:44pm

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Its all over the nothern sky over dublin, this is brilliant! there is a green arc across the sky with waves and pulses

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#19 29-10-2003 11:57pm

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nope just went out again .. cant see a shagging thing..

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#20 30-10-2003 12:09am

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Same over here - all I can see are stars and street lights

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#21 30-10-2003 12:13am

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there was just a massive display over dublin, distinct red spike going straight up, and a green wave with spikes across the entire sky

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#22 30-10-2003 9:08am

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Went for a walk last night in the black dark here in Wicklow, it was plainly visible in a starry clear sky..
I didn't notice green strobes of light from it, they were more like a very pale blue or white here.

mm

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#23 30-10-2003 10:18am

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Might it be like this again tonight?

Missed all of it last night

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#24 30-10-2003 10:30am

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Has anyone got any pictures of the Northern Lights?

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#25 30-10-2003 6:47pm

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Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
Has anyone got any pictures of the Northern Lights?

Check out the Astronomy and Space Forum uder science Albert has kindly posted his pictures of the Aurora ho took last night.

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#26 30-10-2003 10:18pm

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I saw it last night here in Portlaoise between about 11.45 and midnight. Some tinges of red but mainly a wavy green band of light moving slowly across the sky with some occasional long kind of "spikes" of light.

First time I've ever seen it. Pretty cool, I have to say.

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#27 31-10-2003 3:41pm

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Just today I found out that at a certain time a few days ago X-rays hit Earth. It was extremely wierd but at that exact time a strange sick feeling came about me and I got a flu immediately afterwards.

Do you think this had something to do with the Xrays, or is it just a coincidence?

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