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Categories: Mobile Blog (Moblog), Connecticut & Newington
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When I arrived at the football field with six minutes to go in the first half, Newington trailed #1 New Britain by a respectable 14-6. It is now 42-6 with two seconds left. I think I’ll head home after the halftime show…
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Categories: Mobile Blog (Moblog), Connecticut & Newington
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Wow!
My dad and I got a fantastic aurora borealis show tonight near the border of Harwinton and Burlington in west-central Connecticut. We stopped in the parking lot of Johnnycake Airport, walked into a field on the Burlington side, and gazed north. At first, we weren’t sure we were seeing anything, but 15-second-exposure photos revealed a green tint in the sky. Then, roughly a half hour after we arrived, the geomagnetic activity increased substantially:
1:01 AM
1:37 AM
“Streaks” of light could be seen reaching up toward the heavens, and the wall of green light clearly got brighter and occupied more of the sky.
Some reddish and purple tint could even be seen. It was awesome!
It’s a good thing we went as far west as we did, because as this picture shows, the Greater Hartford light dome was definitely competing with the Northern lights:
Although we escaped the light dome, we still had to deal with the occasional car going by…
…and we created our own light pollution by taking silly flash pictures of ourselves in front of the auroras. :)
Check out this spooky photo where, appropriately enough for Halloween, I look like a ghost!
Anyway… it was AWESOME!!!
While we’re on the topic of the solar storm, here’s a photo that I took earlier in the day of the sunspots that produced all this, using metalized mylar to filter the sun’s light:
Woohoo!
