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Major Aurora Borealis Event - Southern Ontario
Early this morning between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. I noticed in the now clear
skies, what appeared at first to be wispy high altitude clouds lit up from the city lights. But soon afterwards it became apparent this was not city lit clouds, but the Northern Lights. The spacing, plus the wisps and jets proved a spectacular sight. After viewing for about 30 minutes, the light or pale white color transformed suddenly and all at once into a light colored lavender blue or purplish/bluish with a hint of red tint. Utterly amazing. What also struck me was the overall appearance of a watery prism or pyramid, as seen ofcourse from the inside. In other words, all the wisps and jets seemed centered around a central apex, and appeared to terminate in a trapezoidal base. Further the outlines and shapes which continually appeared to cascade around this illusive 'dark-center' appeared like the outline of birds or multiple bird-like wings. At one point, almost like a 'lightning flash', all the overlapping or cascading 'jets and wisps' formed the definite outline of a very large Phoenix-like head and beak with outstretched wings. I also couldn't help but to notice two other distinguishing 'shapes' forming briefly before dissolving back into the general wispy/linear jet like streams we are all familiar with - a dumbbell shape (which periodically reappeared in the center - parallel to 'empty-space' when taken together looked like cosmic lips or a kiss) and which was always momentarily preceded by a definite aerodynamical shape of some sort (which looked somewhat like fighter jet delta wing design) although looking imbedded inside a wind tunnel with the streams flowing around it! Anyhow truly awesome to see, regardless of the shapes having any meaning outside of astrophysical geomagnetics. |
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SuperCool Plasma wrote:
Early this morning between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. I noticed in the now clear skies, what appeared at first to be wispy high altitude clouds lit up from the city lights. But soon afterwards it became apparent this was not city lit clouds, but the Northern Lights. The spacing, plus the wisps and jets proved a spectacular sight. After viewing for about 30 minutes, the light or pale white color transformed suddenly and all at once into a light colored lavender blue or purplish/bluish with a hint of red tint. Utterly amazing. What also struck me was the overall appearance of a watery prism or pyramid, as seen ofcourse from the inside. In other words, all the wisps and jets seemed centered around a central apex, and appeared to terminate in a trapezoidal base. Further the outlines and shapes which continually appeared to cascade around this illusive 'dark-center' appeared like the outline of birds or multiple bird-like wings. At one point, almost like a 'lightning flash', all the overlapping or cascading 'jets and wisps' formed the definite outline of a very large Phoenix-like head and beak with outstretched wings. I also couldn't help but to notice two other distinguishing 'shapes' forming briefly before dissolving back into the general wispy/linear jet like streams we are all familiar with - a dumbbell shape (which periodically reappeared in the center - parallel to 'empty-space' when taken together looked like cosmic lips or a kiss) and which was always momentarily preceded by a definite aerodynamical shape of some sort (which looked somewhat like fighter jet delta wing design) although looking imbedded inside a wind tunnel with the streams flowing around it! Anyhow truly awesome to see, regardless of the shapes having any meaning outside of astrophysical geomagnetics. I've been stuck in TO. for too long ... sigh By the by, I've always wanted to ask sonebody 'this' ... What is the following supposed to mean: see http://tinyurl.com/8gmo2 ================================================= Address and Port: 209.213.229.143 Record Created: Sat Oct 16 23:43:03 2004 GMT Record Updated: Tue Mar 29 12:39:02 2005 GMT Additional Information: Likely Trojaned Machine, host running Korgo trojan Currently active and flagged to be published in DNS If you wish to request a delisting please do so through the Support System. |
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