aurora!
Last Monday evening, 2011 October 24th, we experienced our first really good aurora display in many many years… maybe 7?
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The allsky camera has been up for many years now but for the most part
it was solar minimum, not a lot of solar activity, CMEs or aurora.
Monday night however was quite special… the first aurora in some time,
but one big and bright enough to really put on a show, and to be
recorded on the allsky camera.
You can see it here: images are 90 seconds exposure each and the aurora
dance around a lot in the beginning of the nights run,
http://www.starlightcascade.ca/concam/gif/today20111025.gif
52 mb animated .gif
There is also a shorter, smaller one (32mb) with a few hours of cloud in the middle removed.
http://www.starlightcascade.ca/concam/gif/aurora-20111024.gif
32mb animated .gif
The plexi dome will be washed down with some RAIN-X solution later today, in an effort to get the water drops to roll off faster and better than they do now.