Yeah this was all due to those 2 big solar flares back on around the 18th, I think. one was an X1 level and the other an X1.6 level. The brighter one was followed by a full halo mass ejection of about 2 billion tons of solar material. They figured it would strike the Earth sometime on the 21st, creating problems for communications on that date. There is a website called something like astroweather that tracks all the sunspots and all the astro instruments watching the Sun and reports on any changes that might affect us. When I saw this I decided the 21st wasn't a particularly good time to be standing under the ozone hole in Antarctica. Kent Gittings
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert Harris Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 6:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: Photos of Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis From a BBC News story: "Red and green lights dance in the sky above the North and South poles. The two lights - the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis - appear to be a mirror image of each other." "It is the first time Northern and Southern Lights brightening at the same time at opposite ends of the Earth have been captured on film." At: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1621000/1621406.stm Bob Harris - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com ********************************************************************** - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
