From anonymous at fakedomain.ips Wed Sep 17 12:57:37 2003 From: anonymous at fakedomain.ips (anonymous) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:57:37 EDT Subject: ips-aurora-alert digest, Vol 1 #55 - 1 msg Message-ID: <156.249cd337.2c9927a1@fakedomain.ips Aurora began last night to the north west, and moved into the northern sky, then overhead. Spectacular ... long bands of flaming lights, reds shooting across blue and green long weaving curtains. VERY wondrous display. occurred from about l am to 1:30 ... Hugs, margie. From anonymous at fakedomain.ips Wed Sep 17 12:58:12 2003 From: anonymous at fakedomain.ips (anonymous) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:58:12 EDT Subject: ips-aurora-alert digest, Vol 1 #55 - 1 msg Message-ID: <18d.1f8572c2.2c9927c4@fakedomain.ips Forgot to include location of aurora report just sent: tok, Alaska. 99780 From anonymous at fakedomain.ips Fri Sep 19 09:23:08 2003 From: anonymous at fakedomain.ips (anonymous) Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 19:23:08 EDT Subject: ips-aurora-alert digest, Vol 1 #56 - 1 msg Message-ID: <10.358ec1c8.2c9b985c@fakedomain.ips In a message dated 9/17/03 6:01:46 PM, ips-aurora-alert-request at fakedomain.ips writes: << asfc at fakedomain.ips sky last night was covered with light misty clouds ... nevertheless saw massive BRIGHT displays THROUGH THE CLOUDS toward the north, to overhead from 12:30 midnight to about 3 am. Must have been MAGNIFICIENT without clouds obscuring! Hugs, margie. Will look again tonight. From anonymous at fakedomain.ips Sun Sep 21 17:47:13 2003 From: anonymous at fakedomain.ips (anonymous) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:47:13 EDT Subject: feedback from aurora watching. Message-ID: <103.3652efd4.2c9eb181@fakedomain.ips Report from Tok, Alaska ... on 19 September at about 11 to 2 am (went to bed then) we saw just the very lightest of wide, soft blue bands across the dark sky ... air was filled with moisture, close to clouds overhead but more mist than clouds ... so all was softened, almost blotted out ... however, 20 September at about 4 am we saw magnificient wide blue and green bands moving directly overhead, three wide bands at a time most of the time, like a directly overhead rainbow ... with the most intense activity to the west ... the bands ran west to east ... with some lighter ones toward the north. whole bands shifting like waves rolling over each other from south to north ... like three curtain hems, and the wind blowing perpendicularly to them, transfering light from south one to middle, to north one ... wave after wave rolling them toward the north ... then the bands reforming south again and being "rolled north again like three pencils on a table parallel, and the left one rolling over to hide the middle one, and the middle one rolling over to cover the right one, even as the left one dimly reappears and then grows till it rolls like an incoming wave over the middle one again. I have seen this type of action along an aurora's "curtain hem" ... but not the whole length of a band rolling all at once over to and "marrying" the one farther to the north. Very interesting. Just when you think from all your 50+ years of watching them that you've "seen them," and then they do something mindblowing and new ... like last night's parallel waves merving ... what an awesome, creative phenomen, yes?!!!! Love, margie.