Aurora Videos on YouTube

Posted by DaveMitsky

on Wed, Oct 11 2006 11:21 AM

There are some striking videos of auroral activity on the recent big news item website YouTube.

Here's one of them that's really worth a look.

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Posted by Anonymous

on Sat, Nov 11 2006 9:00 PM

That is my favorite one! Def. check it out.

Posted by Red1530

on Wed, Dec 13 2006 5:24 PM

Thanks for the link. The video was great.

Posted by Sandycane

on Sat, Jan 13 2007 12:50 AM

That's pretty wild.

I have a stupid question: why are some of the brighter stars moving and those that appear to be in the background/ somewhat dimmer are not?

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Posted by Anonymous

on Sat, Jan 13 2007 6:18 AM

Sandycane wrote:
That's pretty wild.
I have a stupid question: why are some of the brighter stars moving and those that appear to be in the background/ somewhat dimmer are not?

There aren't any stupid questions here! :) ... I thought that there must have been a meteor shower going on, or something along thoes sorts. They are probably just a few meteors passing by at the time the video was taken.

Posted by Sandycane

on Sat, Jan 13 2007 7:21 PM

Hi Daniel, thanks for not calling me stupid.

I spotted the meteor shower in what I would call the foreground then there is the middle layer of moving stars/ constellations. Then there is the background layer of stars that are not moving.

Maybe I'm just seeing things.

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Posted by DaveMitsky

on Sun, Jan 14 2007 1:05 PM

Sandycane,

Those nonmoving "stars" may be hot pixels or some other sort of artifact.

Dave Mitsky

Sic itur ad astra!

Chance favors the prepared mind.

A man is a small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

Posted by Sandycane

on Sun, Jan 14 2007 2:12 PM

Thanks for the explanation, Dave.

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