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Solar Joules are catch and release
Only if it’s at least 1km thick and you untwist the individual strands.
4 X class solar flares to impact this weekend.
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List of observations in Finland with descriptions (english):
Most of them were in the south. I only saw some minor activity, the sky was too bright...
Most of them were in the south. I only saw some minor activity, the sky was too bright...
hwy17
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My phone could clearly see a bright pink aurora on the horizon here in central California but it was barely visible to the eye just the faintest red. Like red tinted light pollution, but if you stared you could see that it was a little more unreal than that, and did emminate from the sky itself.
Technically it happened: I saw the northern lights from my back yard, but I'll reassure everyone here who was asleep that they didn't miss anything.
Technically it happened: I saw the northern lights from my back yard, but I'll reassure everyone here who was asleep that they didn't miss anything.
Well, at least I can turn the UPS's back on this morning. They were going wild. The one at my wife's desk beeps at almost any grid fluctuation, and the one for the router is also sensitive. But I have a couple of others from which I've never heard a peep after several years no matter what's going on, and even they were beeping. Mind you, they all continued to supply power, but the beeping was more than we wanted to hear.
Best of all to me was that the off grid buildings were unaffected at all, so this morning my wife said, "OK, you're right - we definitely keep the new house off grid." WOO HOO"! I've been talking about the increasingly fragile grid for a while now, so Thanks, sun!
Wondering what we'll get tonight as this is supposed to go for ~ 3 days. But I think last night was supposed to be the most intense. Thanks for the compliments on the pics, but all I did was point, click, and try to hold steady.
Best of all to me was that the off grid buildings were unaffected at all, so this morning my wife said, "OK, you're right - we definitely keep the new house off grid." WOO HOO"! I've been talking about the increasingly fragile grid for a while now, so Thanks, sun!
Wondering what we'll get tonight as this is supposed to go for ~ 3 days. But I think last night was supposed to be the most intense. Thanks for the compliments on the pics, but all I did was point, click, and try to hold steady.
wpns
Solar Joules are catch and release
APC UPSen can be configured for sensitivity, high and low grid limits, and active or silenced alarms.
Of course, going offgrid is the best solution.
Nothing happened here exept my GPS wandered a few more meters than usual.
Daddy Tanuki
Solar Wizard
Fukuoka is south west of me about a 10 hour drive. thats right next to Marine Corps air station Iwakuni.
Boeing is taking a beating these days. maybe they should consider going back to hiring those old wrinkly white guys that did the job so well for the last 50 years for them, vice whatever the DEI initiative LGBTQ xyz with purple hair types they have been hiring lately.
Brucey
Solar Wizard
Cloud cover here in upstate NY. Nothing to be seen.
skyking1
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My last pic straight up before I gave up. We are in 120' firs.
We got nothing here, just a glow on the horizon that was only visible through a camera. A buddy 30 miles away got some great pics, but nothing here.
As far as I'm concerned, if I only "saw" it through my phone, I didn't see it. I'm not crossing that one off my list.
As far as I'm concerned, if I only "saw" it through my phone, I didn't see it. I'm not crossing that one off my list.
Daaaam the jokes about that town name must be intense! That or they REALLY dont like Oklahoma...
Q-Dog
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Well, did anything bad happen?
Not that I can tell. Just a lot of alarms on the UPS devices that were connected to the grid. Saw friends for breakfast that live near the main branch of the grid and they said nothing at all at their house. We're the last property down a long stretch of the smallest circuit they run, so maybe that had an effect, but no real idea. Civilization survived.
wpns
Solar Joules are catch and release
Not sure, we haven't heard from @AlaskanNoob since he decided the best way to prevent problems from his 650 feet of cable was to connect to the grid, but then he's a few hours out, so barely morning there.
Yeah. Seems to be. My hair glowed a funny color when I walked outside but it is ok otherwise.
wpns
Solar Joules are catch and release
APC UPSen can be configured for sensitivity, high and low grid limits, and active or silenced alarms.
Of course, going offgrid is the best solution.
Nothing happened here exept my GPS wandered a few more meters than usual.
My house normally 'moves' around 5M from it's average position, so GPS was slightly effected.
My FL condo 'moved' a lot more, but it's got a very compromised antenna, so nothing obvious happened there.
Both of them kept perfect time, which is what I care about.
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I decided the best way to prevent problems was to connect to the grid? I'm off grid, I don't have the option of connecting to the grid.
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