[AZ-Observing] Re: Aurora in Tucson

I'm not very experienced at observing auroras, but I'll try posting a report
anyways. 
With reports on spaceweather.com that auroras were visible from northern CA, I
decided to drive to 4 peaks for a look around 1:30am. I arrived around 2:10am. 
The auroras looked like a faint reddish glow in the region of
the Big Dipper, appearing and disappearing pretty quickly. The motion is not
obvious at all, but more like a subtle change in amount of reddishness in the
sky. I took a few photos and noticed that the reddish region occasionally
stretched past the big dipper nearing Leo.
Now here is the strange part: as I was driving back (slowly, of course
:), I looked towards Canis Major and I thought I could see a reddish boundary
through the constellation. My first thought was that the aurora extended down
that far, but then i wasn't sure whether I was confusing this with the milky
way boundary, I really thought I saw some reddish glow, or could it just be me
too desperate to see something? Would this be consistent with Andrew's report
on seeing auroras from Tucson?

Sleepless in Tempe,

Derrick Lim
The Laboratory for Multi-Disciplinary Analysis and Design of Material-Wave
Interactions 
Department of Electrical Engineering
Arizona State University
Personal homepage: http://www.public.asu.edu/~antares
Lab homepage: http://ceaspub.eas.asu.edu/nivadellir

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Steven Dodder wrote:

> Having nothing better to do than wait for the alarmists reports, I've been 
> sitting in the dome doing odds and ends imaging whilst keeping an eye toward 
> the northern horizon.  While a slightly variable reddish glow is detected 
> from Maricopa, it hardly warrants two exclamation marks.  Just in case, I 
> set up the camera and took several images of between 2 minutes and 20 
> minutes, hoping, a'la Chris Schur, that I might get something on film I 
> could not see.  Maybe, they'll show up in the images of M37 I took tonight, 
> too.  But I doubt it.  Nothing like the awesome display of a couple years 
> back.  :-)
> 
> Steve and Rosie Dodder
> sdodder@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Visit my web site at http://www.stargazing.net/Astroman
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >From: Andrew Cooper <acooper@xxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: TAAA <tucsonastronomy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,AZ-Observing mailing list 
> ><az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [AZ-Observing] Aurora in Tucson
> >Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 01:40:19 -0700
> >
> >
> >
> >To any who might still be up at this hour, we currently have aurora
> >borealis in Tucson!!!
> >
> >Andrew
> >
> >
> >--
> >
> >Andrew Cooper
> >Tucson, AZ
> >mailto:acooper@xxxxxxxxx
> >http://www.whitethornhouse.com



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