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11 minutes ago, OceanStWx said:

Why choose. Half day lift ticket and hit 9 holes on the way home. 

Wish I could, but I'll have to head to work Saturday mid-afternoon.  It'll have to be one or the other.

Paid for my membership today at my local 9 hole track. While Crump is far nicer and much closer, I cannot justify the cost.  I've tried (It's basically across the street, there would be zero gas costs...).

They're hoping to open up on Saturday provided things dry out.

So I haven't decided.  Ski on Saturday, or play golf?

Edibles?

Lol. Nope.

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Is it just me, or is there a decent visible glow to the north? Kp is negligible at 4 but Bz looks decent at the moment (but very erratic).

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Damn ray! Congrats on the 30", sucks to hear that you're being doubted.

 

Storm apparently sucked out here. Just got home and cleaned yup the meager snow on mtg driveway. Spent the day at foxwoods. The place was a ghost town. They got smoked, roads sucked.

 

If there's a silver lining for me here out west, my daughter goes for her road test on Thursday morning to get her drivers license. The last thing she needs is snowpacked roads and enormous snowbanks.

 

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Lots of people saw it all over New England.  My neighbor swears it landed just behind his house!  He said it went down just behind his trees.  Highly doubtful.  I told him he should take the day off and go into his woods and find it.  A 1 pound meteorite is worth about a million bucks!

Lol.

 

When people saw it from hundreds of miles away, it was pretty high up. ... not to mention, if it did survive, we would have heard reports of a big boom. No doubt he'd be searching those words for a while...

 

I've seen guestimates on size from golf ball to softball to basketball. There's video floating around from our NWS friends in Gray.

 

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Anybody besides me see the meteor yesterday evening? Just before 6pm, driving north on 91, saw a decent fireball. There were several reports from PA to ME.

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Any chance of it clearing out up north? Socked in and there's great potential this evening!

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9 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

Things got pretty lively for a time on the Sebec Lake webcam. Probably would have been able to pick up some color on camera down here, but I wasn't feelin' it. 

 

 

There was a time where we weren't getting agood Bz reading, so I made the executive decision to NOT get eaten alive waiting alone with my camera in the dark.

Meh.

I'll be keeping my eyes peeled...

Too bad it's overcast tonight. ...could have been a good one!

Mwn posted a nice Facebook pic. Definite faint glow,not worth busting put the camera unless bz gets lower.

If I can't see it with the bare eye then it didn't happen.

Exactly. Hoping there's more offerings in the very near future.

Spaceweather has a photo posted from mass. Looked like bz dipped momentarilly. Dude must have pulled an all nighter for a view that only a camera can see.

Honestly, doesn't look great at all. ...at least for now.

Keeping my eye on it.

Of course, the moon sucks thought now.

Nothing here last night, but didn't look right at sunset. Will be on it tonight if Bz gets more favorable.

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Lol

I passed out; saw nothing.

Bz looking crappy, hoping it improves. If it does I'll head out with my camera.

Yeah, that is a big drawback. ...and it doesn't set until like 4:30. Ugh.

lots of meh. bz and density are fine but the solar wind is too slow.

there is/will continue be activity but it probably won't be worth standing in the freezing cold unless you're doing long exposure photos.

Freezing cold? ...it's not January.

Bz doesn't look so hot at the moment, but things may improve. ...could be something?

Here is a link to a map which shows "dark sky" locations, which combined with a topo map, should be useful for finding good viewing spots:

http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/

And another:

http://darksitefinder.com/maps/unitedstates-15color.html

Berkshire East Ski area is probably in one of the darker parts of Massachusetts, and it has a large treeless parking lot that has a good view to the north.

In southern Vermont, check out the Green Mountain National Forest off Route 9 west of Brattleboro in the vicinity of the Deerfield River. About 5 or 6 miles west of Wilmington, turn right onto Forest Road 71, follow for 12-13 miles and turn right onto Somerset Road, and follow for a few more miles until you get to the Somerset Reservoir. There is plenty of parking and a great view to the north across the reservoir. Or, follow Forest Road 71 north and look of clearings. It's mostly wooded, but it promises to be very dark and there are some marshy clearings along it's length, including one at it's northerly terminus with Kelly Stand Road. Primitive camping is permitted along Forest Road 71.

The parking lot at berkshire east has way more trees than you'd like, and the mountain on the north side of route 2 would impede your horizon view significantly. It is possible to drive up top. I have viewed aurora from the top of flying cloud, but that view is more WNW. I had top relocate to by the wind turbine for better north views. Is tricky driving up there, but if you know how, it can be done.