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[corvi]

We saw a few minutes of aurora last night before the clouds covered it! It was a tough night for auroras - the moon was only two nights past full, and there was heavy ocean-haze, but it was pretty great anyway. :) juli  shot this amazing animation.

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Since I have a spammy daily choreblog (with cute animal pictures) at lazyevaluationranch_feed , I'm never entirely sure what to do with corvi  and whether I should post about any of my boring interests here.  

Poll #14989 metapoll

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Which of the following posts to corvi.dreamwidth would NOT bore the pants off you?

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realtime aurora announcements
8 (72.7%)

a long serious of posts about English words for snow in an attempt to disprove that old canard about words for snow
9 (81.8%)

reposts of things that I've written on Quora, a question and answer site
6 (54.5%)

documentation of my attempts to learn the Mongolian language
10 (90.9%)

recipes / cooking stuff
8 (72.7%)

book reviews
8 (72.7%)

inane polls
8 (72.7%)

terrible specfic writings
9 (81.8%)

I don't want to read any of those things, but I like checking boxes!
1 (9.1%)

Comments

[ivy]

Aaaah aurora haze and I missed it! I still have never seen one in person.

[corvi]

I don't know where you are right now, but tonight is looking promising too! Aside from the rain, if you're local at the moment. :)

[ivy]

I'm in Seattle.... I'm looking, but I think it might be too bright. Is city light pollution a problem for seeing aurora? Is there a "good" direction to look, other than up?

[corvi]

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation/

^^ NOAA projections of where the aurora is above (updated every couple of minutes). It is usually best between midnight and 1AM, when we're directly opposite the sun.

Occasionally at this latitude, we are lucky enough that it will be directly overhead, but usually it stops short a little north of us, so you have to look north and toward the horizon. Light pollution does interfere when you are trying to see it on the horizon (as well as buildings, trees, clouds etc to the north of your position).

It's easy for Juli and I to drive five minutes to a dark quiet harbor, so we've been seeing it a lot this year... harder to judge whether it's worth driving out of the city on a worknight, though.

Looks like you guys have as much rain as we do. Probably nobody gets to see it tonight. :(

[spiralsheep]

That .gif is utterly beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

I think you should write about what enthuses you because people tend to be more interesting when they discuss their own enthusiasms imo.