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The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby 2dimes on Thu Apr 28, 2022 3:27 am

On occasion you can watch the dancing lights from just past my wife's front door step.

Unfortunately every time last yea it was any good I missed it. Now the earth is tilting and it makes it seem like mr sun is heading north. That phenomena will soon cause 24 hour light up north, that will wash the pretty light show away for summer.

You will soon be able to enjoy aurora australis down unda.

If you're up right now you can watch a little but on this web cam but it's not visible from the lawn in front of my wife's house.

https://autumn.athabascau.ca/auroracamhd.htm
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby KoolBak on Thu Apr 28, 2022 7:07 am

So you and your wife now have separate houses. Interesting.

She shoulda dumped you much sooner.....
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby jusplay4fun on Thu Apr 28, 2022 8:45 pm

2dimes wrote:On occasion you can watch the dancing lights from just past my wife's front door step.

Unfortunately every time last yea it was any good I missed it. Now the earth is tilting and it makes it seem like mr sun is heading north. That phenomena will soon cause 24 hour light up north, that will wash the pretty light show away for summer.

You will soon be able to enjoy aurora australis down unda.

If you're up right now you can watch a little but on this web cam but it's not visible from the lawn in front of my wife's house.

https://autumn.athabascau.ca/auroracamhd.htm


If I show up, do I get a free meal, or two? I prefer NO seal and no Walrus, either.

What kind of wine do I bring for the planned meal?
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby 2dimes on Thu Apr 28, 2022 9:01 pm

Do they have walrus in Australia?
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby jusplay4fun on Thu Apr 28, 2022 9:28 pm

There are plenty of 'Roos. And what about the wine?
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby 2dimes on Thu Apr 28, 2022 9:34 pm

All I know for certain is, the only Auroras I have seen in the last year, were on web cams, pictures, or videos.
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby KoolBak on Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:18 pm

At other people's houses.....
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby 2dimes on Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:24 pm

The web cams and videos have just been at my wife's house as as far as I can recall.

I probably have seen pictures somewhere else.

Live I mostly seen them outside.
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby KoolBak on Fri Apr 29, 2022 6:50 am

I like outdoors web cams.
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis

Postby 2dimes on Fri Apr 29, 2022 8:50 am

Me too. I can't think of any I like that are indoors.

The one in that link has been the best I found for Aurora Borealis in the last few months.

Most of the web cams I look at are weather/cloud related. I found one on Bourbon Street that was interesting during the last hurricane. Kind of surprising how many people were out riding bicycles and wandering around.

BC drives has a bunch on the mountain highways. I was checking them while attempting to convince my wife to go to Revelstoke for the weekend. She doesn't love Revelstoke as much as I do, plus she figured we would get snowed in for too many days. They always plow the highway snow, but Rogers pass can close for a day or two fairly regularly.
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby Dukasaur on Fri Apr 29, 2022 10:01 am

I've never seen the Aurora indoors.

Mind you, there were some acid trips that came close.
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby bigtoughralf on Fri Apr 29, 2022 10:06 am

I've seen it in Assassin's Creed a bunch, not in the offline world though.
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby 2dimes on Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:36 am

I think they have been somewhat viewable from Scotland this last year. Though It might be even cloudier there than at my wife's house. Like many celestial things clouds tend to be the biggest obstacle to seeing it.

Dukasaur wrote:I've never seen the Aurora indoors.

Mind you, there were some acid trips that came close.


I have seen them out the kitchen window, but it's much better to go outside on the rare occasion they are visible here.
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby mookiemcgee on Fri Apr 29, 2022 12:19 pm

It's worth going to Iceland for them.
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby KoolBak on Sat Apr 30, 2022 7:31 am

Yeah DoD, I'm with ya brother :lol: One in particular far out weighed what aurora I've seen from Orcas :lol:
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby jusplay4fun on Sat Apr 30, 2022 6:56 pm

bigtoughralf wrote:I've seen it in Assassin's Creed a bunch, not in the offline world though.


the offline world


Do you mean in Real Life (i.e., with your own eyes, in the actual sky, and not on a computer or electronic monitor)?
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby bigtoughralf on Sun May 01, 2022 9:21 am

jusplay4fun wrote:
bigtoughralf wrote:I've seen it in Assassin's Creed a bunch, not in the offline world though.


the offline world


Do you mean in Real Life (i.e., with your own eyes, in the actual sky, and not on a computer or electronic monitor)?


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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby jusplay4fun on Sun May 01, 2022 8:29 pm

bigtoughralf wrote:
jusplay4fun wrote:
bigtoughralf wrote:I've seen it in Assassin's Creed a bunch, not in the offline world though.


the offline world


Do you mean in Real Life (i.e., with your own eyes, in the actual sky, and not on a computer or electronic monitor)?


Glad to see my boomer trap still works. And I didn't even have to fill it with Werther's Originals!


the werthers you eat online in your virtual reality? Time to get out of saxi's basement, ralf.

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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby 2dimes on Thu May 23, 2024 7:15 am

I forgot about this thread.

So the coronal mass ejected recently was responsible for the best Aurora in quite sometime. Both Borealis and Australus. It was reported that on the 10th Borealis was visible as far south as Texas. That's epic.

I missed the peak but was on the phone with my bro. then I got out of bed, I couldn't see them from the yard here at Har's house so I picked up my bro and we drove out of town to watch them for a while.

They were kind of disappointing compared to the last time I watched them from the front lawn.

And I thought of an indoor web cam I like. They took it down but here's the archive.
https://donaircam.archive.wunder.ca
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby Dukasaur on Thu May 23, 2024 12:28 pm

bigtoughralf wrote:
jusplay4fun wrote:
bigtoughralf wrote:I've seen it in Assassin's Creed a bunch, not in the offline world though.


the offline world


Do you mean in Real Life (i.e., with your own eyes, in the actual sky, and not on a computer or electronic monitor)?


Glad to see my boomer trap still works. And I didn't even have to fill it with Werther's Originals!


Way back when I used to drive cab, there was another driver who used to hand out Werther's Originals to all his passengers. Kind of a stupid trademark, but apparently it worked.

One night, a bunch of super hot university chicks were getting into my cab. One of them looks at me and her face lights up. "Oh, it's the Werther's Guy!" she happily shrieked. Then she had a closer look, and with a downfallen looks she says sadly, "Oh, you're not the Werther's Guy."

I've never liked Werther's, but I considered getting some after I saw her reaction.
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby bigtoughralf on Thu May 23, 2024 3:41 pm

That why these younger gals are great, they don't need much to be impressed.

I used to quite like Werther's, I wouldn't have sucked off a cabbie for one though.
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Re: The elusive Aurora Borealis.

Postby 2dimes on Thu May 23, 2024 5:24 pm

Ok, a couple of questions.

How many Werther's would that have cost? Or was that a variation of, "What would you do for a Klondike?"
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