Particles Above, Particles Below

[beamjockey]

During Sunday night's spectacular auroral display (through which I managed to sleep), Marty Murphy in Operations took wonderful pictures of skies over Fermilab.

My favorite:



See other pictures here.

Todd Johnson called me to warn about the aurora, but as I was scheduled to go to work at 0430 (to change all the locks on the entrances to a two-mile accelerator, before everybody arrived for work), and I had already fallen asleep, I figured I would have a good chance of seeing the lights when I got up.

Unfortunately, skies were overcast by the time I got outdoors.

And it was cloudy Monday night.

I hear the Sun is still lively, and I may stand a chance of seeing something tonight...

Comments

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

You know, I recall a WindyCon, ten years ago or so, that had a really brilliant aurora display. We pulled over on I-94 around Climax. It was fully into the RED over head. Amazing.

I remember it was quite visual out back of the Hyatt, which is pretty amazing in its own right.

[whl.livejournal.com]

Actually, if it is the one I'm thinking of (and it almost has to be), it was visible from the parking lot of the Woodfield Hyatt itself.

Now that's an aurora!