Saturday, January 28, 2012

Stargazing Tonight - Saturday January 28th

It's gonna be cold and mostly clear tonight. Chris is planning on setting up between 6:30 and 7:00.
If you head out dress for the weather, it hasn't been real cold this winter but 27 degrees isn't anything to sneeze at.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

No Stargazing at Stonelick, but we might see an Aurora between the cloudsOf course the clouds are parked over Cincinnati and we've got a chance of see

Of course the clouds are parked over Cincinnati and we've got a chance of seeing an Aurora tonight. If the skies clear look toward the North after dark.

From Spaceweather.com :
Active sunspot 1401 erupted on Jan. 19th around 16:30 UT, producing an M3-class solar flare and a full-halo coronal mass ejection (CME). The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory recorded the cloud expanding almost directly toward Earth:Their forecast predicts an impact on Jan. 21st at 22:30 UT (+/- 7 hrs).