joe@hanauma (Joe Dellinger) (03/14/89)
There is a very large sunspot group tracking across the Sun these days. I saw it by projecting an image onto a piece of paper using ordinary 7X35 binoculars. I mean this group is BIG. I am told there was quite a good aurora display visible here at Stanford from around 11:45 to Midnight PST Sunday night. The northern sky up to about 30 degrees above the horizon turned bright red and purple. Just a few minutes ago I watched a weak but discernible aurora visible along the Northern Horizon for a few minutes. Then it died away again. It was the wrong color (red-purple) to be city light glare (white-yellow). If you are interested in seeing an Aurora, but live too far south to normally see them, keep your eyes open the next week! You may get your chance! Good luck! Flame: I missed the one last night because I was in my office. I'm on the 5th floor above street level in an office bordering an exterior wall. If I want to see the sky I have to take the elevator to the basement and then climb up a flight of stairs. Stanford seems to have the idea grad students are most productive in a proper cave atmosphere. \ /\ /\ /\/\/\/\/\/\/\.-.-.-.-.......___________ \ / \ / \ /Dept of Geophysics, Stanford University \/\/\.-.-....___ \/ \/ \/Joe Dellinger joe@hanauma.stanford.edu apple!hanauma!joe\/\.-._