This is where it was visible. Didn't quite make it here. Close though for a sunspot minimum. A few had expressed interest in this so I thought I'd post this.

http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/images2006/14dec06f/dmsp1_dec1415.gif

That's really freaky...I thought Greenland was green, not brown.

-spence

Everything is brown when you see it through a pink sweater!! I read that someplace.

CON

Coffee Out Nose :rotf3::rotf3:

Everything is brown when you see it through a pink sweater!! I read that someplace.

Since your quite literate (or well read) on the subject of sun spots

have you come across anything written that the electromagnetic influence of a solar flare
causes people on planet earth to become irritable and or mad as hell for no apparent reason?

this was something i was gonna read up on....but perhaps you already know the answer.

lol sorry Raven I don't go beyond what the effects are on the ionosphere. Not an expert on radiation and sunspots but I been reading on them since I was about 12. Nothing would surprise me anymore... Most of what you see is atomic related radiation...alpha, gamma, etc and that stuff is some pretty serious stuff. Not much reaches the ground though as it's usually absorbed by the ionosphere. Where it is becoming a problem though is in areas of less Ozone which is one of the gas layers that reflects it. Less Ozone means more of this nasty stuff can get thru to the ground level.

Now go %$%$%$%$ yourself

must have been the sunspots :D

Kidding. That will probably be the next defense in court now. Make sure you wear your tinfoil hat whenever your outside :)

Thanks SB....interesting stuff....

I did catch a pic from Alaska somewhere....on msm I think.....

That was just about the funniest GD thing I have ever read here. Pink sweaters were all the rage at the polo club this summer.

And #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& thanks for posting this.

[QUOTE=Swimmer;443041]That was just about the funniest GD thing I have ever read here. Pink sweaters were all the rage at the polo club this summer.[/QUOTE

Swimmer are you another Pink Sweater Freak?

There are indications this week that the new solar cycle has started. We have been at the solar minimum for over a year now. There is a new sunspot at a very high latitude and reverse polarity from normal...this is kinda like a robin in the spring for solar cycles.

Indications are this cycle will be the strongest EVER recorded in the last 400 years. The peak should be somewhere around 2011. If this is indeed as strong as many think then you will see some incredible stuff in the next few years. Intense aurora will reach the equator in some areas, there will be widespread satellite blackouts, and there could be major issues with power line distribution causing massive blackouts from overload.

Figured you guys would be sitting on the edge of your seats waiting to hear this :hee:

Will make for some seriously neat fishing nights...