Re: [Utah-astronomy] Stargazing, police and possible aurora
I typed ARLO and the spell checker changed it. Drat. ------------------------------ On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 4:07 PM MDT Ann Blanchard wrote:
I get it, in fact we re-watched Alice's restaurant last night. It was a big night for the Summit Count police and this from Arlo Guthrie as well:
"And that's what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stop signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars, being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of cop equipment that they had hanging around the police officer's station. They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to mention the aerial photography."
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Steve Fisher Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 4:00 PM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Stargazing, police and possible aurora
"I must admit officer Obie, I put that piece of paper with my name on it under that pile of trash" If per chance you don't understand, just tell Craig. I'm sure he will get it.
Steve
From: a.blanchard@ugs.utah.edu To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Date: Mon, 8 Jun 012 1::2::5 +000< Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Stargazing, police and possible aurora
Saturday (June 6)), Craig and I went out to the Gravel Quarry near Peoa, UT where we have gone off and on for the last seven years and others have used that site for many more years than that. The group included Craig and I, Steve Roens & Cheryl, Michael Carnes, and Lowell Lyon. We got there at ::0,, watched the glorious sunset and waited for the clouds to clear off, which they did around 0iish. We were looking at old favorites in Sagittarius, while Steve and Michael hunted down galaxies and nebula. When Steve got the owl nebula, he called out to come and see the owl, and on cue, an owl hooted off in the distance about five times. We were having a great time, when about 0::0 here came three police cars with lights flashing and multiple officers. They had a report of a woman with glasses and a blue sweatshirt in the gravel quarry. Unknowing sinner that I was, I had used the portable outhouse they have outside there trailer, as I have done every time we've ever gone up there, but that was at ::0 when we first arrived. We all had to have our driver's licenses checked and they said they had had a lot of theft up there in the past year so they now have surveillance cameras. They asked me if I had taken anything and I admitted to using toilet paper in the outhouse. Craig kept muttering to me about the littering story from Alice's Restaurant, but Lowell was a much better politician and urged several of the police to look through his scope at Saturn (our scope had police headlights in it, so nothing to show there). They finally reluctantly left us and gave their phone number for us to call to let them know we were came up there again so they wouldn't have to investigate us again. Sometime after 1::0,, Steve called to all of us to look to the north where two dim tall pillars of grayish light sort of quivered for a bit, faded and then came back briefly. He guessed it was the northern lights, and Lowell concurred. I always thought they were glorious colors, so I would not have known what were may have seen. Looking at the sun report on spaceweather.com, though it says June 6--7 northern lights were as far south and included Utah and a picture someone took in Tremonton. It was quite the night. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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The only aurora's I have seen are either pink or green and they have always been pretty obvious.
I typed ARLO and the spell checker changed it. Drat.
------------------------------ On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 4:07 PM MDT Ann Blanchard wrote:
I get it, in fact we re-watched Alice's restaurant last night. It was a big night for the Summit Count police and this from Arlo Guthrie as well:
"And that's what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stop signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars, being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of cop equipment that they had hanging around the police officer's station. They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach, the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to mention the aerial photography."
-----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Steve Fisher Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 4:00 PM To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Stargazing, police and possible aurora
"I must admit officer Obie, I put that piece of paper with my name on it under that pile of trash" If per chance you don't understand, just tell Craig. I'm sure he will get it.
Steve
From: a.blanchard@ugs.utah.edu To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Date: Mon, 8 Jun 012 1::2::5 +000< Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Stargazing, police and possible aurora
Saturday (June 6)), Craig and I went out to the Gravel Quarry near Peoa, UT where we have gone off and on for the last seven years and others have used that site for many more years than that. The group included Craig and I, Steve Roens & Cheryl, Michael Carnes, and Lowell Lyon. We got there at ::0,, watched the glorious sunset and waited for the clouds to clear off, which they did around 0iish. We were looking at old favorites in Sagittarius, while Steve and Michael hunted down galaxies and nebula. When Steve got the owl nebula, he called out to come and see the owl, and on cue, an owl hooted off in the distance about five times. We were having a great time, when about 0::0 here came three police cars with lights flashing and multiple officers. They had a report of a woman with glasses and a blue sweatshirt in the gravel quarry. Unknowing sinner that I was, I had used the portable outhouse they have outside there trailer, as I have done every time we've ever gone up there, but that was at ::0 when we first arrived. We all had to have our driver's licenses checked and they said they had had a lot of theft up there in the past year so they now have surveillance cameras. They asked me if I had taken anything and I admitted to using toilet paper in the outhouse. Craig kept muttering to me about the littering story from Alice's Restaurant, but Lowell was a much better politician and urged several of the police to look through his scope at Saturn (our scope had police headlights in it, so nothing to show there). They finally reluctantly left us and gave their phone number for us to call to let them know we were came up there again so they wouldn't have to investigate us again. Sometime after 1::0,, Steve called to all of us to look to the north where two dim tall pillars of grayish light sort of quivered for a bit, faded and then came back briefly. He guessed it was the northern lights, and Lowell concurred. I always thought they were glorious colors, so I would not have known what were may have seen. Looking at the sun report on spaceweather.com, though it says June 6--7 northern lights were as far south and included Utah and a picture someone took in Tremonton. It was quite the night. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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I've seen dozens from Utah, and most appear grey to the eye, red on emulsion-based film. Usually columns, curtains, or streamers. A few were vaguely greenish. Except for the great display of, what was it, 2002-ish? The last solar max. Every shade in the crayon box, and bright. Pulsating, exploding, incredible. I agree with Erik, after seeing a few, you can tell if it's the real deal. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:31 PM, <erikhansen@thebluezone.net> wrote:
The only aurora's I have seen are either pink or green and they have always been pretty obvious.
It may have been 2002 ish when I saw from SPOC pink curtains about 20 degrees high in the north covering most of the northern horizon. Lasted several hours.
I've seen dozens from Utah, and most appear grey to the eye, red on
emulsion-based film. Usually columns, curtains, or streamers. A few were vaguely greenish.
Except for the great display of, what was it, 2002-ish? The last solar max. Every shade in the crayon box, and bright. Pulsating, exploding, incredible.
I agree with Erik, after seeing a few, you can tell if it's the real deal.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:31 PM, <erikhansen@thebluezone.net> wrote:
The only aurora's I have seen are either pink or green and they have always been pretty obvious.
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