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I have a friend who's neurodivergent in a way I can't quite get in sync with emotionally and it sucks. It's like my instinctual reaction to every situation she tells me about is wrong, and I have just...
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I'm struggling to stay focused on anything today. Brain is just constantly bouncing around randomly 🙃
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I want to get more #solar data today even though I have a massive backlog of images I'm still working on processing. Region 3664 is being very active and kicking off flares all the time. I wish I could...
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I've compromised and set it up to look out of the window in my office. The image quality is shit, but I can keep an eye on the sun while I work. The sun is at least being obliging and being relatively...
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The one thing that's nice about Daylight Savings Time is more sun at night. Gives me a good chunk of time in the evenings after work to look at the sun with the scope lol
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Managed to catch a just-shy-of-X1-class flare a few hours ago when I put my scope out on the deck. The complex chaos of magnetic fields — that is much, _much_ larger than the size of Earth — designated...
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So some of that stupendous amount of energy and particles that Region 3664 kicked off earlier in the week is projected to arrive here on Friday night, causing a G2 geomagnetic storm. If you live up...
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Oh WOW! The aurora forecast for tonight has been upgraded to a G4 storm!!!If you live in a northern state or Canada GO OUTSIDE TONIGHT!!!I'm so excited!!!!
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I want to establish extra urgency to anyone living in the Seattle and (less so) Vancouver area. The weather forecast is going to be about perfect for tonight. Almost no clouds.YOU ARE IN A PRIME AURORA...
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Also, much of Minnesota, including Minneapolis/St. Paul, will have prime viewing too! Anyone that lives up there should go out at around 12-2AM tonight.THIS IS SO EXCITING!!! I haven't been paying...
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I think it would be kind of funny if this geomagnetic storm knocks out every single Starlink satellite
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Which actually brings up a very important point about the "booming" commercial space industry. It's grown during a solar minimum. We're now in a solar maximum. How are all of these new insane satellite...
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Part of my general pessimism is due to a likely Kessler Syndrome situation in the not-to-distant future. There's too much unregulated activity happening right now in low Earth orbit. It's a recipe for...
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Also, this geomagnetic storm is a reminder that Earth is statistically due for a Carrington Event level storm any time now. A geomagnetic storm so intense that it knocks out the entire power grid and...
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IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW!!! I had to stop and get off the interstate near the WI border because I could see the #aurora through breaks in the clouds!!!
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If you have clear skies and haven't gone outside yet to watch the aurora you've made a mistake.It's mesmerizing. Unbelievably dynamic. I had no idea how much it can jump, strobe, flash, and flow. I...
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The sun kicked off a massive X5.7 last night and X1.5 flare this morning. Tonight is forecast to get up to Kp7 again. We might be getting #aurora for an entire week at this rate!
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Very slowly working through my #aurora photos from last night. I screwed up and didn't set my DSLR to save in raw format. Oh well, the pics are pretty cool anyway 😍#astrophotography
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