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Tanner
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Word is that things might not occur until midnight.
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Tanner wrote:
Word is that things might not occur until midnight.


ACK! I'm already sleepy! ARGHHHH!!!
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Yeah same here, didn't fall asleep until 2:30am last night. Why didn't this happen last night instead!
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nothing yet?
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So a few of us are hanging out in my back yard, waiting for the show. Nothing yet.

Although we are seeing more meteors than last year according to sushant.
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went up to stouffville in the country and saw nothing. Came back now.
hopefully you guys will have more luck
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I was up near Mount Albert, saw nothing but did smell lots of skunks.
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was at home, saw nothing as well
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not even any blue angels :(
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I saw more shooting stars than the last meteor shower where we froze our asses off. No fancy lights though. Damn astrologists. I am never doing this again.

Thanks chris for letting us use your back yard and lu for driving
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I saw more shooting stars than the last meteor shower where we froze our asses off. No fancy lights though. Damn astrologists. I am never doing this again.

Thanks chris for letting us use your back yard and lu for driving


But then again, these things are hard to predict with high accuracy and although Chris lives considerably far North,
there is still light pollution, so Torrance Barrens might have yielded a better view.
Don't give up ;)

For some little inspiration, in the end, some people got very lucky with the Aurora Borealis tonight:

http://spaceweather.com/ (info on main page will be updated frequently)
http://spaceweather.com/aurora/images20 ... jjqofpnc44 (last night at Lake Superior)
http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_ ... jjqofpnc44 (August Auroras gallery)
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I stayed up to 2am, now I can't keep my eyes open at work... on my 2nd cup of tea now.
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I stayed up until 3AM and didn't even see a single flare. sigh.
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*BRRRAIIIIIIINNNSS*
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Darn media hype.
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there should be an independent inquiry!
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Here is a video of last nights show. I think video is a better medium for the northern lights
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[quote="Magic"]Here is a video of last nights show. I think video is a better medium for the northern lights
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[quote="bzride"][quote="Magic"]Here is a video of last nights show. I think video is a better medium for the northern lights
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Last nights show from Norway though. One of the better aurora locations on the planet at the worst times.
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More than 1,000 turned out on Tuesday night in hopes of viewing the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights). While we were too far south to see the show, people had a chance to learn about space weather and check out the stars through the Great Telescope and smaller telescopes set up on the lawn. Many thanks to CityTV, Global, CTV, CFRB, 680 News and the Toronto Star for letting people know 'There's no place like Dome."


Did we just fall for a sleek PR campaign to publicize the Observatory?
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Lara wrote:
From the David Dunlap Observatory homepage:

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More than 1,000 turned out on Tuesday night in hopes of viewing the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights). While we were too far south to see the show, people had a chance to learn about space weather and check out the stars through the Great Telescope and smaller telescopes set up on the lawn. Many thanks to CityTV, Global, CTV, CFRB, 680 News and the Toronto Star for letting people know 'There's no place like Dome."


Did we just fall for a sleek PR campaign to publicize the Observatory?


meh i don't mind. they are very friendly and don't charge you to walk around their facility.
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Lara wrote:
Did we just fall for a sleek PR campaign to publicize the Observatory?


Yah they made the sun burst just for a PR campaign! :shock: What will they think of next? :lol:
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This plot shows the current extent and position of the auroral oval in the northern hemisphere, extrapolated from measurements taken during the most recent polar pass of the NOAA POES satellite.
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Lara wrote:
Did we just fall for a sleek PR campaign to publicize the Observatory?


Yah they made the sun burst just for a PR campaign! :shock: What will they think of next? :lol:


I still believe in the caramilk secret...
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