MaineJay

The CFS nailed the clear skies for the April eclipse up here, lock it in! 🤣

It's the extended bone dry periods we've seen for many places that makes me wonder about the snowfall aspect this winter. Next 10 days east of the Mississippi is impressive. Last winter we were able to manage a fairly "average" snowfall season, but the amount of "blue snow" was impressive. It was extremely destructive, and very hard to move. I'm certainly no going to bemoan a warm, dry second half of October however, just gonna enjoy it.

Skies cleared.

Great shots! It was cloudy and started raining in the afternoon. Tonight looks overcast as well. Hopefully I get a window tomorrow night. I work late on Tuesdays, so I'll probably just go out on my roof for the best NW view from home. Depending on in how that goes, maybe I'll go to a better nearby location for Thursday and Friday.

And the minute it is dark, go check. I've made the mistake of waiting till it was darker, only catch the tail end. The magnitude of the brightness was shocking, I want to say things like, "once-in-a-generation", or even lifetime, but there's been a few amazing storms in this solar cycle. That sunspot will rotate back around in 10 days or so, never know with the sun, makes it more special to catch them. And there's always the data gap. They have to first try and discern what, if anything ejected from the sun, then wait until it hits the ACE satellite almost 1 million miles from Earth at Lagrange point 1. That gives only about an hour of real heads up, and even then, ACE might not even be able to "see" how much is coming towards Earth, but only the strength of what passes by the satellite, if that makes sense. In any event, we are getting away from the equinox, so that will make them as little more difficult, but by no means the deciding factor. A big storm probably doesn't care.

Disappointed I didn't stay up a little longer. I did wake early and sent the drone up in questionable conditions. Had a bit of a hard landing too, so have a propeller blade to replace, but that was the only damage thankfully. Did improve on my time lapse, but you can see how my little drone was fighting the wind. Edit, just noticed that bright satellite or plane looking like a UFO taking off. 1_2_0_2024_10_11_04_06_56_LAPSEZY_1378.MP4

The outburst just after sunset was unreal,

Yeah, I used the phone a lot tonight, just because I was lazy and blown away

Insane tonight

I told a bunch of people to look for it, I forgot to convey the most important lesson I've learned, of they are going to come, they will likely be early, so the minute it is dark, go out.

The brightness was incredible, sun was barely set too. Twice as bright a last time for me.

I'm not great with the drone settings, so has to experiment. My best effort. Had to wait til the wind died down too, and it's faded significantly. 1_2_0_2024_10_10_20_03_20_LAPSEZY_1297~3.mp4

Dying a little now, hoping it pulses again.