Anthropogenic Aurora Borealis?

Apparently, there was some good Aurora propagation on 6 Meters and 2 Meters last night, and I missed it. Sonofabiatch!

SVenus: Anthropogenic Aurora Borealis?

But remember people, the sun is acting totally normally. It is especially *not* producing any difference in behaviour which might interact with our magnetic field. Nothing to see here.

Middle Ohio. Just like Manhattan, only with more meth (and fewer teeth).

Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?!

I've seen the Northern Lights here in central IL. We're not that much farther south than central OH. Seems plausible to me.

Damn, I'm 10 degrees more to the North but on the wrong side of the globe. Ah well, maybe next time.

A cloud appears above your head.
A beam of light comes shining down on you.
Shining down on you.

The cloud is moving nearer still.
Aurora borealis comes in view.
Aurora comes in view.

And I ran.
I ran so far away.
I just ran.
I ran all night and day.
I couldn't get away.

Sybarite: The ejection hit on Monday at approximately 2 p.m. ET and was seen across Arkansas, Tennessee, northern Alabama, northern Mississippi and North Carolina.

Yes, but was Aurora Borealis shinin' down on Dallas?

Can you picture that??

/There's nothin out there you can't do.

//Even Santa Claus believes in you.

///Well played.

http://www.spacew.com/ (new window)

Spacew has some software for keeping track of what is happening in regards to improving your chances of seeing the aurora.

dittybopper: Apparently, there was some good Aurora propagation on 6 Meters and 2 Meters last night, and I missed it. Sonofabiatch!

...he said, in a posting that will be transmitted losslessly to thousands of viewers around the world, and will be viewable and searchable for years to come.

On the other hand, just try winding your own packet-based global wired network from copper, tungsten, wood, and glass.

Chakro: Central Ohio? That was Cincinnati news station and the pictures were from somebody in Ryland Heights, Ky. which is about 17 miles south of Ohio.

Came to say this.

Saw them when I was letting my dogs out last night. Thought it was some kind of light from the city. Had me scratching my head until the news came on later.

Saw it last night, in south central KY....saw it another time, an hour north in Bardstown, like in 02-03...somewhere in there.

jfarkinB: ...he said, in a posting that will be transmitted losslessly to thousands of viewers around the world, and will be viewable and searchable for years to come.

On the other hand, I can always reliably talk to people hundreds of miles away, and almost always thousands of miles away, without any communications infrastructure between me and the other person. Even if I'm in the middle of the Pacific Farkin' Ocean, I can send an e-mail. For free. And the technology that enables me to do so isn't subject to brittle failures, unlike the communications failures in New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina, and like the one which happened 11 years ago in my neck of the woods. I actually helped to provide communications coverage for that one, when the local phone systems including the cell networks were knocked out because of a broken water main.

Oh, and just so you know, we've got a metric-assload of different digital modes that allow you to communicate, some of them even so sensitive that your computer can decode a signal that is too weak to hear with the 'naked ear'.

I mean, you can still bang away at Morse if you want (and I do), but that's not the be-all, end-all of ham radio. It's kept up with the times, in fact, we did wireless networking in the early 1980's, and GPS enabled/Text/Tweet-like mobile operations in the early 1990's. If you want to see the future of communications, look at the cutting edge of ham radio today, make it smaller, faster, and a simpler user interface, and that's what you'll be doing in 10 to 20 years.

StokeyBob: http://www.spacew.com/ (new window)

Spacew has some software for keeping track of what is happening in regards to improving your chances of seeing the aurora.

spaceweather.com (new window) is better

Anyone who has been to Central Ohio and says they've never spotted aliens, wasn't paying attention.