Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/