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Post by Ahawkeye on Mar 24, 2024 14:29:23 GMT -5
A lunar eclipse will occure starting at about 1:00 am on March 25th the total eclipse will be about 3:00 EST and finishing up about 5:30 am.
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Post by esshup on Mar 24, 2024 15:16:49 GMT -5
Supposed to see the Northern Lights too, if the clouds stay away.
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Post by ms660 on Mar 24, 2024 20:40:37 GMT -5
Supposed to see the Northern Lights too, if the clouds stay away. I have always wanted to witness the northern lights. I have seen them on TV many times but never in person. |
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Post by freedomhunter on Mar 24, 2024 21:07:39 GMT -5
Supposed to see the Northern Lights too, if the clouds stay away. I have always wanted to witness the northern lights. I have seen them on TV many times but never in person. Seen them from my porch years back dark red was just right time never thought it would happen |
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Post by esshup on Mar 24, 2024 22:50:34 GMT -5
Supposed to see the Northern Lights too, if the clouds stay away. I have always wanted to witness the northern lights. I have seen them on TV many times but never in person. I saw them once years ago driving to work and about 10 years ago I was in Northern Wisconsin the weekend after Labor Day. They popped up and stayed dancing for about 45 minutes. Amazing. |
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Post by Ahawkeye on Mar 25, 2024 3:30:30 GMT -5
Clouded in, hopefully April 8th has clear skies.
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Post by stevein on Mar 25, 2024 7:44:59 GMT -5
It was cloudy here in Suburban Ari. At 3:30 the moon was barely visible. No chance for the Northern Lights to shine. I have seen them a couple of times down here but never was it more a ripple of color. I saw them once when we were at my sister's in Petosky Mi. It was still not the show I have seen pictures of from the U.P.
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Post by astronankin on Mar 25, 2024 15:06:15 GMT -5
Cloudy here. I stayed up until just before 1:45. When I last checked you could sort of tell the Moon was slightly darkened by the eclipse. I really wanted to see the aurora too but that obviously didn't happen. If it was clear enough I was gonna use my brother's camera and take images to see if it was detectible down here. NOAA was showing the line of visibility for last night ended just barely south of Lake Michigan.
I've seen the aurora once, from here at home in central IN 10 years ago last fall. It was a super exceptionally strong and really bright show. I bet that one was detectible on cameras as far south as the southern US. All of what we saw was far north of us, but some very faint red pillars at the end appeared to be closer, and they moved quickly. Dancing and waving within a few dozen seconds. That's a bit fast for an aurora. Majority of the aurora was very bright blue/green. It was so strong it was lighting up buildings and objects as close to us as 3 miles north. Highest kP index was right after sunset, so you can imagine what that looked like. I was doing chores and let's just say I noticed the northern sky looked slightly strange during nautical twilight, and then I went back out with the potting scope cause I "got the observing bug" for a bit. While doing that I noticed the northern sky wasn't dimming at all from sunset. Absolutely incredible to witness.
Now the clouds gotta hold off on April 8th. However my family and I went to a talk and it seems that half the cloud forecast tends to be high cirrus clouds and partly cloudy conditions historically for that day, which is a bit more promising.
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