[AZ-Observing] Re: Major Airglow Enhancement in North
- From: Chris Schur <comets133@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:20:51 -0700 (PDT)
Awsome Tom. I had no idea of this phenomenon. It even
sounds cool.
chris
--- Tom Polakis <tpolakis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> ---- Chris Schur <comets133@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > really wanted to share it with all of you. Please
> > comment if you seen this spectacle in the north
> > before!
> >
> >
>
http://www.schursastrophotography.com/xtiastro/fisheye090907airglow.html
>
>
> Yes, Chris, I saw this same green sky illumination
> in the north on a night in 1991 just prior to
> Pinatubo mucking up the Northern Hemisphere's sky
> for more than a year. We were at the "Camp 613"
> site on the Rim, and I noticed faint horizontal
> strata in the north.
>
> They photographed on Ektachrome 400 as lime green,
> but the scan is pretty ugly, and I don't feel like
> digging for the slide right now. This was a file
> that was lost from the file server at psiaz.com, but
> turns up on the Wayback Machine Internet archive.
> Again, pardon the quality, but you get the idea.
>
>
http://web.archive.org/web/20000915124432/www.psiaz.com/polakis/nightastro/aurora613.jpg
>
> I am wondering if the phenomenon we imaged might be
> acoustic gravity waves, shown on this site by Gordon
> Garradd in Australia.
>
> http://members.ozemail.com.au/~loomberah/agw1.htm
>
> Tom
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