Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/08

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Subject: [Leica] Aurora Photo Op
From: chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson)
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:02:18 -0700
 
Those of you in the higher latitudes (50 degrees North and above, maybe
further south) should be alert around local midnight for the chance of
photographing an auroral display beginning Thursday night, thanks to a pair
of monster solar flares that occurred Tuesday and Wednesday. Rumored to be
more powerful than the aurora of last April, which was photographed as far
south as Florida in the United States.

The forecast here is for solid overcast, but should it clear, I'll don the
old FilmShield bag I usually wear to block the transmissions from Mars, and
start howling at the moon (with an M6 clamped to a tripod and pointed north,
of course).

Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.