Aug 3-4 - Nothern Lights show

[offroadace]

In this X-ray photo provided by NASA, the sun is shown early in the morning of Sunday, August 1, 2010. The dark arc near the top right edge of the image is a filament of plasma blasting off the surface - part of the coronal mass ejection. The bright region is an unassociated solar flare. When particles from the eruption reach Earth on the evening of August 3-4, they may trigger a brilliant auroral display known as the Northern Lights

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01689/solar-storms_1689916i.jpg

Article and other photos. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/7924559/Solar-flares-coronal-mass-ejections-and-aurora-borealis-in-pictures.html)

[YFZBOB]

...SWEET!!! A
'solar tsunami'

[Big_Gunz_]

Guess I know what I'll be doing tomorrow night while camping at the beach.

Lawn chair, check
Cooler of beer, check
Watching the Northern Lights, check.

[offroadace]

More info;

Since Sunday, four eruptions on the sun have sent plasma into space on a crash course for Earth, scientists at NASA have found.

The eruptions, dubbed coronal mass ejections, started early Sunday, NASA said. When the plasma ejected from the eruptions hits the planet, the particles will come down toward the North Pole and South Pole. As they do so, they will hit nitrogen and oxygen, creating a colorful spectacle of green and red lights flying through the sky. According to scientists, the lights will be visible in northern U.S. states, on up to Canada.

The eruptions were caught by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a spacecraft that offers views of the sun. Scientists there said they were part of the sun awakening from solar minimum--a time where little activity and few sunspots are witnessed on the sun--and moving toward solar maximum, a period of high activity and more sun spots. The period of time between solar minimum and solar maximum is usually 11 years. The last solar maximum occurred in 2001.

The solar eruption is especially important because of its trajectory. "It's the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time," Leon Golub, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said in a statement.

At this time, scientists don't know exactly how far south Americans will be able to see the lights show. That said, the light show should be visible around midnight on the East Coast, with subsequent events occurring in the afternoon and evening on Wednesday. See a NASA video of a solar eruption at right.


http://news.cnet.com/sun-eruption-sends-plasma-space/9742-1_53-50091171.html

[YFZBOB]

Watch out for Sand Crabs, Bro!
:drink2


Guess I know what I'll be doing tomorrow night while camping at the beach.

Lawn chair, check
Cooler of beer, check
Watching the Northern Lights, check.

[Big_Gunz_]

Well, maybe I'll see them, maybe I won't.

I like sand crabs, they scratch things for me. :raspberry1

[YFZBOB]

Huh, I wonder if this has anything to do with my Migraine Headaches lately.

No, wait. Isn't this the plot to 2012? It's the end of the world as we know it!

[Big_Gunz_]

But look at it this way, you get to take a nice long shower when the wave hits.

[YFZBOB]

True... Coming 2012, Front seat row at Dumont Beach Recreational Park.

But look at it this way, you get to take a nice long shower when the wave hits.

[offroadace]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV79uersSfg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APnmTjvs6Q0