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[OM] Good auroral activity over the next 24 hours

Subject: [OM] Good auroral activity over the next 24 hours
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 15:23:00 -0600
Sweet!

There's been heavy solar flare activity for the last couple of days, and some 
of the slower high-energy particles are just impacting Earth's upper ionosphere 
now.  Check out the aurora forecasts for the Northern Hemisphere at the NOAA's 
website:

   http://www.sec.noaa.gov/pmap/pmapN.html

Look at all the 1 to 10 erg energy distributions!  Looks like North America's 
in for a lightshow starting sometime after midnight Mountain Daylight Time.

I'm gonna be 50 klicks east of Edmonton (nice and *dark*) around 3:00 A.M. with 
a Zuiko 21/2.0 at about 4.0 (try to reduce any coma), some Velvia, a tripod, 
cable release and the trusty OM-1n.  I'll try out various shutter times and see 
what I get!

Garth


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