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Post by auntym on Apr 13, 2012 13:46:27 GMT -6
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I'm Back Guys!!! I've missed you so much!!!
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Post by CitizenK on Apr 13, 2012 14:30:18 GMT -6
Great picture!!!! I love it when we can catch nature at it's finest...or worst. Amazing photo, great find! Thanks M
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Post by lois on Apr 13, 2012 15:29:38 GMT -6
Don't trust lightning not to strike twice. That is some photo how the guy caught it with his camera.
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Post by Steve on Apr 13, 2012 21:58:45 GMT -6
We have been having some heavy rain at times the last two or three days and nights. Sometimes some occasional sun too from breaks in the clouds. Had some fun thunder and lighting last night. This must have been part of that Bay Bridge show. I live 30 miles or so east of the Bay Bridge. Steve
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Post by lois on Apr 15, 2012 22:30:30 GMT -6
We have been having some heavy rain at times the last two or three days and nights. Sometimes some occasional sun too from breaks in the clouds. Had some fun thunder and lighting last night. This must have been part of that Bay Bridge show. I live 30 miles or so east of the Bay Bridge. Steve My sister lives close to the bridge, but I do not speak with her on a weekly basis, not even a monthly basis. We are having the rain tonight as the midwest storms has moved east. The night news report had this photo on the 5:30 news last night or night before. My husband said to me . Come here Lois is this what you were telling me about from the forum. I tell him nothing misses this place.
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Post by skywalker on Apr 16, 2012 18:44:05 GMT -6
That was an amazing photo. I saw some very cool lightning yesterday...all with multiple lightning bolts like in the bridge picture but there is no way I could have photographed it. It just zapped for a few seconds and was gone...then a while later it zapped again and was gone. I could never have gotten that timing down right. The guy who took that must have had just the right camera settings to capture it...and a lot of luck!
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Post by auntym on May 3, 2012 16:27:37 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/double-rainbow-lightning-strike-captured_n_1473850.html Double Rainbow And Lightning Strike Captured By Photographer In Ohio (PHOTO)[/color] Posted: 05/ 3/2012 Captured by Associated Press photographer Steve Vaughn on May 1 in Hamilton, Ohio We may not be as excited about a double rainbow as this guy, but the picture above is still quite impressive. Captured by Associated Press photographer Steve Vaughn on May 1 in Hamilton, Ohio, the image shows both a lightning strike and a double rainbow. According to the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a double rainbow happens when the ray of light that causes a single rainbow is reflected twice within raindrops and exits at a greater angle than a single rainbow. The Straight Dope explains: Because the twice-reflected light has had two chances to be transmitted out the back of the raindrop rather than reflected back toward the observer, the secondary bow is much fainter than the primary and frequently cannot be seen at all; it's typical for a secondary rainbow to be visible only at certain points along the arc. Luckily for Vaughn, he was able to witness both rainbows as a lightning bolt pierced the sky. For more double rainbow action, look at these double bows above London, New York and Washington, D.C.. Be sure to check out Jimmy Kimmel's interview with the "Double Rainbow Guy," whose unrivaled excitement for a double rainbow garnered him tens of millions of YouTube views. TO SEE MORE PICTURES & CONTINUE READING: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/double-rainbow-lightning-strike-captured_n_1473850.html
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2012 2:36:48 GMT -6
That's a pretty awesome picture... but I only see one rainbow... ~cleans glasses~ Hmm... I must be blinder than I thought...
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2012 10:37:42 GMT -6
just to the right of the biggun and very very faint ..but I see it
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Post by lois on Oct 27, 2012 22:35:46 GMT -6
anna's Mother just told me on FB from the Alaska Weather Station that British Colombia just had a 7.7 earthquake and there is a Tsunami warning from Vancouver all the way North to Alaska's South East Coast.
I'm going back to talk to her to see if anna is at work..
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Post by lois on Oct 27, 2012 22:45:32 GMT -6
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Post by lois on Oct 27, 2012 22:48:44 GMT -6
Im sitting here shaking like crazy and feel very sick . I was thinking about that dream I had. I posted it again on the forum last night. Hope this tsunami does not strike. Oregon and Washington state is also included.
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Post by skywalker on Oct 27, 2012 22:52:02 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Oct 31, 2012 20:31:23 GMT -6
Just saw the most beautiful meteor. It was large and brilliant, moving fairly slow for a meteor. It was bright yellow, then turned to blue-green as it descended. Before it struck the earth, it split into two and burned out. Pretty sight!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2012 0:14:42 GMT -6
Just saw the most beautiful meteor. It was large and brilliant, moving fairly slow for a meteor. It was bright yellow, then turned to blue-green as it descended. Before it struck the earth, it split into two and burned out. Pretty sight! earthsky.org/tonight/south-taurid-meteor-shower-in-novemberAwesome Swamprat. If I were to guess, it was possibly a Taurid but could've been sporadic also. It may have even been a Pegasid or Orionid depending on what time of night , location of the sky, and destination it was traveling. Glad you got to see it. Sometimes a brilliant fireball will develop and those are the best and most memorable, especially the ones that break apart as you mentioned during entry. The green ones are the most rare of all. I've only seen one in the several thousand that I have witnessed over the years. I recall Skywalker saying he saw a green one also. On an Astronomical website I saw a recent pic of a green one that someone captured on film,,,it was a great catch . There was much debate and conflicting info as to it's composition .
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Post by skywalker on Nov 3, 2012 7:24:59 GMT -6
I've seen a few green ones in my lifetime but not many. They are always the most brilliant ones of them all. That one Touched is referring to happened immediately after I had asked the ETs to come down and talk to me. Very freaky timing if it was a coincidence. That was the first green meteor I had ever seen.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2012 2:43:59 GMT -6
On my way driving home from work I noticed that the sky was all lit up with bright green Auroras. It was beautiful... but that was the only color
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Post by skywalker on Nov 19, 2012 10:36:12 GMT -6
It seems like there have been lots of green auroras lately. That appears to be the most common color. So how come you can't take pictures of those crazy things again? Do they just not show up?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2012 13:29:36 GMT -6
It seems like there have been lots of green auroras lately. That appears to be the most common color. So how come you can't take pictures of those crazy things again? Do they just not show up? You need to have a camera with a manual adjuster for "long exposure". I don't know how to do that on my cell phone and I don't think I can... Here's some information on it: www.dennismammana.com/skyinfo/phototips/skyphoto_aurora.htm
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2012 13:47:10 GMT -6
The DSLR that you just purchased recently skywalker would be great for aurora's. Phones, quickshot cams and the like normally don't have that ( shutter speed ) setting. That's why I can never get stars or dim objects at night to show up on my quickshots. It takes a little bit of time for the light to "burn in " to the sensors (ccd). This is most likely the reason those orange objects didn't show up. I dont know how Lois is doing it or what she is using. The brightness of the object is a key factor also. Most of the time on quickshots I can get the planet Venus and the moon of course but that's about it and those are the brightest nighttime objects. I have played with the iso settings on the camera a few times and was able to get the star Vega in also but that's pushing it without using the 'long exposure' setting which most quickshots don't have or 'stacking' the images. This is the main thing holding me back from doing astrophotography. That, and having a proper motor driven mount which is even more expensive then the camera.
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Post by auntym on Jan 19, 2018 17:46:19 GMT -6
WOW... absolutely beautiful... ...and scary FINLAND'S AURORA BOREALIS
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Post by jcurio on Feb 18, 2018 23:07:31 GMT -6
Kind of funny about meself. Nowadays, I like to look at these pictures of CME’s afterwards. 😬
I’m trying to determine how (and IF) they affect me. At all.
😊
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Post by jcurio on Feb 23, 2018 10:08:45 GMT -6
Awesome!
(This video also may explain why sometimes the stars SEEM to be “twinkling” more than normal)
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Post by jcurio on Mar 5, 2018 10:29:00 GMT -6
Beautiful! ********
I had “really bad days” on Friday, March 2, and Saturday, March 3. Yesterday, March 4, I did a lot of sleeping.
Friday and Saturday I was “over the top” agitated. There was nothing I was anxious about.... I just couldn’t stand being around my mom and all her talking. I didn’t have a headache, but regular noises in the house seemed terribly loud.
On Saturday I was outside with friends and it was a beautiful day. But I was really distracted and knew that I wasn’t far from “getting irritated”. ☹️
I don’t know if this had anything to do with Space weather. It was VERY WEIRD. I had no other symptoms. So all three days I ended up retreating to my bedroom, putting in ear plugs, and spending time with God. 😊 (This is the only way I got ANY relief. I’ve been “anxious” before and used house work such as a noisy vaccum. This was not anxiety?)
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Post by swamprat on Mar 5, 2018 10:43:18 GMT -6
Just ask any grade school teacher about the impact a full moon has on students.....
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Post by jcurio on Mar 5, 2018 17:21:00 GMT -6
Just ask any grade school teacher about the impact a full moon has on students..... Oh, I saw the beautiful full moon. (It made me think about the experiments we used to do as a group here). The moon has NEVER made me feel like this! (It was more similar to that feeling some women get of PMS. But that didn’t happen either 😉). Thanks though, Swamp!
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Post by jcurio on May 19, 2018 10:53:03 GMT -6
We are having some interesting weather here, near Kansas City, Mo. 🙂. People have reason to worry about sudden wind (so far we have spent one evening in our “storm shelter”).
I find thunder VERY interesting. Especially when there is very little rain following. This past Thursday, May 17, there was distinct continuous rumbling in the upper clouds. (Nothing visible from the ground). I’m talking about the “rumbling” that is easy to refer to as “Henry Hudson (?) and his pals bowling”. 😃
The sun was shining. I was running a sprinkler. We got some rain, but at first I thought I was just feeling my sprinkler blown around.... The sun continued to shine. 😄 ************
The simple fact of my increased interest, is all those years I worked outside on a regular basis (2002- 2013), thunder was “missing”. I mean, the sky would get dark, and then it would suddenly just pour rain. So I wasnt seeing much lightning either. During that time period I only heard distinct thunder during (or before) the type of storm that broke off tree branches? 😳
I would say that I am hearing “regular” thunder now, since the Fall of 2016.
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Post by jcurio on Jul 21, 2018 7:20:49 GMT -6
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Post by jcurio on Jul 22, 2018 5:23:10 GMT -6
WOW
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Post by swamprat on Sept 9, 2018 13:11:52 GMT -6
Looks a little stormy in the Atlantic, sigh.....
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