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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Aurora Photo Op
From: Doug Herr <telyt560@cswebmail.com>
Date: 8 Jun 2000 11:26:10 -0700

On Thu, 08 June 2000, Chuck Albertson wrote:

> 
> 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).
> 

Those of us in the higher latitudes will miss it entirely since the night is almost non-existant at this time of year.

> Chuck Albertson
> Seattle, Wash.

Doug Herr
Sacramento
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