Just got back from our local town farm. Standing out the blacksmith shop
(mandatory metal content), the whole sky is a rosy red with wide streamers
headed toward the south. Best I've seen since my childhood in Maine.

Earle Rich
Mont Vernon, NH

I was in Quebec in the spring and saw the best in 25+ years. We were on a
sand peninsula jutting 100' into a huge lake. The one night we didn't have
aurora, the water was so calm that an insect would have created tsunamis.
Standing at the water's edge I couldn't tell where the sky stopped and the
lake began, the stars reflected in the water so perfectly that I was
standing on the edge of the universe and feeling extreme vertigo.


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Just got back from our local town farm. Standing out the blacksmith shop
(mandatory metal content), the whole sky is a rosy red with wide streamers
headed toward the south. Best I've seen since my childhood in Maine.

Earle Rich
Mont Vernon, NH

In article , ERich10983 says...

Just got back from our local town farm. Standing out the blacksmith shop
(mandatory metal content), the whole sky is a rosy red with wide streamers
headed toward the south. Best I've seen since my childhood in Maine.

Yeah, that was something. Red, with white stripes, now and
again.

Jim

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ERich10983 wrote:

Just got back from our local town farm. Standing out the blacksmith shop
(mandatory metal content), the whole sky is a rosy red with wide streamers
headed toward the south. Best I've seen since my childhood in Maine.

Earle Rich
Mont Vernon, NH

The wierdest one I saw was "man made". It was in '62 and I was playing boy
scientist on Johnston Island measuring ion and electron densities in the upper
atmosphere during the next to last round of US above ground nuke tests. I
remember it well, because it occurred at the same time as the "Cuban Missile
Crisis", and we were stuck on "this f**king island", wondering what awful
things might happen to our wives and kids if Kennedy and Kruschev couldn't
cool it off.

Immediately following one of the high altitude shots (IIRC it was code named
"Starfish") the whole sky turned an eiry green with dark striations in it,
from horizon to horizon. We were over a thousand miles away from Hawaii, but
the Honolulu papers reported seeing the effect that night.

The sky was bright enough to read a newspaper by and took over an hour to dim
down.

I hope that none of us nor our collective decendants never get to see one of
those again.

I've got some text and photos of the instrumentation stuff we were working
with back then up at:

http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/wisnia.htm

Was anyone else on the newsgroup involved in that testing?

Jeff

--

Jeff Wisnia (W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"If you can smile when things are going wrong, you've thought of someone to
blame it on."

Was anyone else on the newsgroup involved in that testing?

I'm not sure if this fits your time line, but I was on the USS Norton Sound
when the last Polaris live warhead was shot off from a submarine. We had a
whole flotilla surrounding the sub when it fired one off from under water. The
whole ship was battened down, but I sneaked a peek through a porthole during
the launch. The missile came out of the water and traveled down range to ???
We had a bunch of civilians and equipment on board, perhaps in case there was a
mishap. I think that was the very last above ground/water nuclear test.

Earle Rich
Mont Vernon, NH
Ex Missile Technician - GS2