November 06, 2004
Rush Hour
The Earth passed through the tail of comet 1001AD on Sunday night. At the same time, an X-class flare from sunspot group NOAA 10696 (astronomers have such romantic names for the heavens, don't they) sent solar ..em..stuff our way, lighting up the heavens. There were some sightings this evening (though not by me) though I did get sight of the illuminations last night. I even had my camera but due to some technical difficulties, I... OK, I just buggered them up.
The picture above was from last year's aurora (around this time last year on a freezing, but clear November night). The 'transporter beams' in the centre of the picture is the visual effect that you get when you bend down suddenly in the dark and crack your head off the corner of the camera. It is exquisitely painful, I wouldn't recommend it but you do get to see stars with your eyes closed.
Back on earth, there are plenty of objects hurtling through space on intersecting courses, not always in a good way...
Posted by Monasette at November 6, 2004 11:26 PM
Great photos as usual.
Just a brief comment on the new font you're
using though - I much prefer the old one. It's
a bit of an effort to read the new on - in mozilla anyway. Maybe its ok in Interner Explorer.
Cheers
Colm
This makes me want to live in the west of Ireland.
Posted by: Frank O'Connor at November 11, 2004 07:13 PM