Originally Posted by leelai

No I haven't as yet but I hope to in a few weeks time. We are heading down to Melbourne to travel on the Great Ocean road and we've heard we may see it there.

Sure hope so anyway....I'm still to read up on it all.

I am sure I posted about the Harrison Planetarium show at Greenwich. The show was about twin satellites launched by NASA to take stereo film of the sun and the current increase in activity.

The increased sun activity results, amongst other things, in more frequent and more intense Aurora displays in both hemispheres of Earth. There were excellent explanations of the Aurora and how Earth's polar magnetic fields are essential in protecting us from bombardments from space.

I'm not sure whether the planetarium show is available worldwide, or for schools. It should be. I'm sure NASA would distribute such shows.

I cannot find details of the show online. Perhaps it isn't being run now. However, here is a link to a Wiki article about the planetarium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Harrison_Planetarium

You can check the show schedules via a further link at the end of the article.

I found this on the NASA website.
Aurora are colorful lights in the night time sky primarily appearing in Earth's polar regions. But what causes them? The culprit behind aurora is our own Sun and the solar plasma that is ejected during a magnetic event like a flare or a coronal mass ejection. This plasma travels outward along with the solar wind and when it encounters Earth's magnetic field, it travels down the field lines that connect at the poles. Atoms in the plasma interacts with atoms in Earth's upper atmosphere.

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Oh wow Richard....thank you for this.

I'm on 3G right now and having a devil of a time trying to load it....

Have grabbed those links for when I'm home!

Thanks again. &hellip

Originally Posted by leelai

Oh please do Kevin, would love to see you here!......from what I've read the Great Ocean road is one of the best drives in the world. It takes in a lot of sights notably the 12 Apostles, which I really want to see as they are slowly succumbing to the ocean

We've booked our flights but still need to work out our itinerary. Col did this same trip not long ago.

I vote for holding an iPF Admin / Moderator conclave in Tasmania.

AA

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Originally Posted by AdmiralAdama

I vote for holding an iPF Admin / Moderator conclave in Tasmania.

AA

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Well....that would just be the best Admiral.....

Doubly so as I haven't been there as yet and I hear its just gorgeous down there!

You got my vote!

Originally Posted by Richard Brown

I am sure I posted about the Harrison Planetarium show at Greenwich. The show was about twin satellites launched by NASA to take stereo film of the sun and the current increase in activity.

The increased sun activity results, amongst other things, in more frequent and more intense Aurora displays in both hemispheres of Earth. There were excellent explanations of the Aurora and how Earth's polar magnetic fields are essential in protecting us from bombardments from space.

I'm not sure whether the planetarium show is available worldwide, or for schools. It should be. I'm sure NASA would distribute such shows.

I cannot find details of the show online. Perhaps it isn't being run now. However, here is a link to a Wiki article about the planetarium. Peter Harrison Planetarium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You can check the show schedules via a further link at the end of the article.

I found this on the NASA website.
Aurora are colorful lights in the night time sky primarily appearing in Earth's polar regions. But what causes them? The culprit behind aurora is our own Sun and the solar plasma that is ejected during a magnetic event like a flare or a coronal mass ejection. This plasma travels outward along with the solar wind and when it encounters Earth's magnetic field, it travels down the field lines that connect at the poles. Atoms in the plasma interacts with atoms in Earth's upper atmosphere.

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Pretty sweet, Richard! I enjoyed watching this with my coffee this morn!

I'm chatting with people all over the world while walking to the local supermarket. This kind of thing was unheard of when I was growing up.

Oops, I'm also showing my age, lol.

Originally Posted by ardchoille

I'm chatting with people all over the world while walking to the local supermarket. This kind of thing was unheard of when I was growing up.

Oops, I'm also showing my age, lol.

Isn't it cool!

I think you'll find it the same for just about all of us here!

Originally Posted by ardchoille

I'm chatting with people all over the world while walking to the local supermarket. This kind of thing was unheard of when I was growing up.

Oops, I'm also showing my age, lol.

No, it would require a land line phone and the result would be a massive phone bill.

Originally Posted by scifan57

No, it would require a land line phone and the result would be a massive phone bill.

Lol...

But we are chatting!

I'm not a phone chatter, so when I saw ardchoille's post, I thought he or she was talking with people in the neighborhood from all over the world, meaning that his neighborhood used to be heterogenous in the old days, lol.