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To: LTK007 who wrote (2926)	11/3/2001 9:33:31 PM
From: w0z	Respond to of 99280

OT Re Aurora...If you are seriously interested in these, Maine is an excellent place for viewing due to your Northern latitude but there is nothing significant forecast for the next 2 days. Auroras are fairly predictable because major flares on the Sun occur about 48 hours before ejected protons hit the Earth's ionosphere causing the Aurora. Sky and Telescope Magazine has an excellent free service which will alert you via E-mail 1-2 days in advance of probable Auroras. To subscribe to their E-mail alert service follow these directions: send a plain-text e-mail to majordomo@skypub.com with the following line (and nothing else) in the body of the message: subscribe sun-earth e-mail@address.com replacing "e-mail@address.com" with your actual e-mail address. There is also an excellent discussion forum here: spacew.com including an IRC chat area (solar.spacew.com:6667) dedicated to aurora. There are extremely knowledgeable folks in these forums and you will learn a lot just reading the comments for awhile. The best realtime indicators are at sec.noaa.gov but you will need to educate yourself to be able to interpret them. Good luck! I've seen Auroras twice in the past two years here in NC (35 degrees North) but missed the two that occurred on Oct 21 and 28...although they were seen by others in this area.