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Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by samus »

weinzierl wrote: post #278
sagischwarz wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mid-west, in an area called Hunsrück.

Thanks, I'm in Bavaria, so there might have been be a chance and the other comments say there are more solar storms upcoming. Definitely will have my eyes in the sky tonight. The images are amazing, btw.

It should definitely have been possible to see it from Bavaria. It was definitely visible in northern Italy. Big cities might have to much light pollution though. Let's hope we get lucky tonight.

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Post by samus »

scientism wrote: post #243
xanderlewis wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had assumed it was because, being a pirate, you were more likely to have had one of your eyes poked out during some sort of mêlée. But that’s much more interesting…

I've read another theory: It's because of the sun damage to their eye from using a sextant for navigation. Haven't been able to confirm it though.

Such damage is creeping and the brain can just hallucinate the blank patches in the vision away, until only like 10% of the retina is left and it just doesn't work anymore. These days, dumbass laserheads are the most likely to suffer from that problem.

It's amazing how much of our conscious experience is hallucination, and yet a lot of people are disparaging LLMs for doing just the same...

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by samus »

beretguy wrote: post #270
sgt101 wrote: post #258

How did this compare to the Carrington event?

That’s what I want to know but everybody just talks about how pretty it is. I want to know if it was dangerous to our electronics, and if not then how close it came to being dangerous, you know, small things like that.

If it was dangerous, we would know by now. As it is, we are still able to use the internet. Major outages would be all over the news.

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Post by divbzero »

The sky has been lighting up in North America too. I’ve heard reports of the aurora from New England and, here in the Pacific Northwest, it’s currently visible by naked eye and striking in long exposure shots. I always thought I would have to visit Alaska or Scandinavia to see the northern lights, never thought I could catch a glimpse so close to home.

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by DoingIsLearning »

SenHeng wrote: post #282

Does anyone have a direct link to the time period when the aurora hits? All I see is a beautiful sunny day.

I think for most folks in Europe it was between 23:00 and 03:00 CET yesterday.

Not sure what future forecasts are. I guess NOAA will probably have some prediction.

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by nalinidash »

SenHeng wrote: post #282

Does anyone have a direct link to the time period when the aurora hits? All I see is a beautiful sunny day.

You can find the images here: https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/bestof/

Approx time(as per the snapshots): 10.05.24 22:00-11.05.24 4:20

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