<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Well, it is cloudy here, so not visible. The Auroral activity forecast that I look at didn't look like they would be visible anyway: <a href="http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/index.html">http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Karen Low</div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "Freund, Udo" <udo.freund@lmco.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Geyser Observation Reports <geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, June 8, 2011 12:58:18 PM<br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Geysers] Auroras in YNP tonight or tomorrow?<br></font><br>
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";"><span>NASA announced this afternoon that a solar eruption involved an M2 (medium-sized) solar flare, an S1-class (minor) radiation storm, and a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) from sunspot complex 1226-1227. After ballooning high above the Sun, the large cloud of matter rained back down onto an area covering almost half the solar disk. There is a video @ URL <a target="_blank" href="http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/123377553.html">http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/123377553.html</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";">The CME should deliver a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field during the late hours of June
8th or 9th. High-latitude skywatchers should be alert for auroras when the CME arrives.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";">Will auroras be visible from Yellowstone? Let us know, please, if you see them.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#007600;">Thanks,</span> <br><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Script MT Bold";color:#007600;">Udo Freund</span> <br><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"sans-serif";">"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."<br>--Will Rogers</span></i> </p><p class="MsoNormal">
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