P3D another aurora shot

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The last one was a bust - nothing seen from here, HOWEVER....
Note: I had a few notes via e-mail from outside the USA, so I'm
including the internation prediction as well...



 ACTIVATION: IMMEDIATELY
VALID UNTIL: 19:00 UTC ON 02 FEBRUARY

    HIGH RISK PERIOD: 01 FEB (UT days)
MODERATE RISK PERIOD: 01 - 02 FEB

POTENTIAL MAGNITUDE OF MIDDLE LATITUDE AURORAL ACTIVITY:  MODERATE

ESTIMATED OPTIMUM OBSERVING CONDITIONS: NEAR LOCAL MIDNIGHT

EXPECTED LUNAR INTERFERENCE: NIL TO LOW

OVERALL OPPORTUNITY FOR OBSERVATIONS FROM MIDDLE LATITUDES:  FAIR TO GOOD

AURORAL ACTIVITY MAY BE OBSERVED APPROXIMATELY NORTH OF A LINE FROM...

        NORTHERN WASHINGTON STATE TO NORTHERN IDAHO TO SOUTHERN MONTANA TO

        NORTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA TO SOUTHERN MINNESOTA TO CENTRAL WISCONSIN TO
        SOUTHERN MICHIGAN TO NEW YORK STATE (UNDER DARK SKIES) TO POSSIBLY
        DARK SKY LOCATIONS OF CONNECTICUT AND RHODE ISLAND.

ACTIVITY MAY ALSO BE OBSERVED APPROXIMATELY NORTH OF A LINE FROM...

        NORTHERN UNITED KINGDOM TO EXTREME NORTHERN EUROPE INCLUDING ALL OF
        NORWAY, SWEDEN AND FINLAND, TO NORTHERN RUSSIA.  EXTREME SOUTHERN
        REGIONS OF AUSTRALIA (PARTICULARLY EASTERN AUSTRALIA) AND NEW ZEALAND
        MAY ALSO SPOT PERIODS OF ACTIVITY.

I've been considering how to sync two cameras with a separation of
perhaps 5 miles (especially if there are not two people involved).

Radio control seems the most likely (unless you have a LONG
cable release :-) Another possibility might be if an accurate clocktimer
could be hooked up one camera (and you have a motor winder) then
there could be an exposure taken, say, for 15 seconds (or whatever) at
the beginning of every minute. If you had a laptop, you could possibly
use it to time the shutter release, synchronize your digital watch to
it, drive to the other location, and voila...

That's about as far as I've gotten... Radio control might be nice because it
could possibly allow you to vary the length of exposure from one camera
site by itself (having a ham radio license might greatly facilitate this,
although with the new extended range "family service" now available in the
USA, that could be a route, expecially if you already had the radios...).

--BW (WB5KXH)

               Bob Wier
         mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  01:08 PM  Sunday, February 1, 1998
     Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
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