Friday was amazing, tonight was a bust (but just looking at stars on their own was pretty cool, so no regrets)... Fingers crossed for tomorrow and Monday!
Where abouts?
Where I'm at - northern Baja - of course there had to be a persistent nighttime marine layer, which only starts to clear once the sun is up.
After a night of stunning auroras across much of the United States and Europe on Friday, a severe geomagnetic storm is likely to continue through at least Sunday, forecasters said.
"The threat of additional strong flares and CMEs (coronal mass ejections) will remain until the large and magnetically complex sunspot cluster rotates out of view over the next several days," the agency posted in an update on the social media site X on Saturday morning.
Large areas of the United States, Europe, and other locations unaccustomed to displays of the aurora borealis saw vivid lights as energetically charged particles from the Solar storm passed through the Earth's atmosphere.
Early on Saturday morning, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the company's Starlink satellites were "under a lot of pressure, but holding up so far."
Should this storm intensify over the next day or two, scientists say the major risks include more widespread power blackouts, disabled satellites, and long-term damage of GPS networks.
When these coronal mass ejections reach Earth's magnetic field they change it, and can introduce significant currents into electricity lines and transformers, leading to damages or outages.
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Yesterday at the bakery I saw that 1 guy Kevin that I told you about that I didn't want to go on a date with you Remember right?
Well, he kept asking me to take a cycling class with him, So I finally did what you told me to do, And I told him that I don't fucking appreciate How he sneezes with his eyes open in front of me in public all the time.
He called me a bitch for that. Can you believe that shit?
You absolutely must replicate as much data as you can in server rooms there instead of having to pull it from Earth via laser link and you must launch some sort of relay satellite at a 45 degree angle or whatever so that it can maintain contact during solar conjunction.
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