My colleague and fellow photographic artist, Chris Brown, just let me know that there is some major solar activity happening right now which is going to create the conditions for amazing auroras.
from the SKY & TELESCOPE website:
The huge sunspot group AR 1520, currently visible with no optical aid except a solar filter, let loose an X-class flare on Thursday, July 12th. The blast hurled a coronal mass ejection directly toward Earth, and the material is expected to arrive anywhere between 3:30 and 17:00 UT on July 14th. (That’s any time between late Friday night and midday Saturday in North America)
Sounds so terribly alien and sci-fi!!!
If you’re away from the city glare – at the lake or camping in the woods (lucky you!) step outdoors between midnight and 3 am CST. The universe will be rockin’ a lightshow like you’ve never seen!
On another note, can you be cool if you’re hot? hahahha.
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