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Originally Posted by Leo.G
That's another beautiful image Joe!
I never saw anything like that when I lived in Young.
Joe I don't have a face-Smear account because I believe social media is only a playground for clinical narcissists ( courtesy of Moira Rose-Schitt's creek).
I can clearly see the video without an account and again, it's stunning!
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Thanks Leo,
Glad you could see the video and thanks for your kind comments. We are going through a particularly active period of solar activity. It's also pertinent that Young and Lithgow's geomagnetic latitudes are about 60 south. The Earth's south magnetic pole(SMP) is located at 64 S, 137 E. That's only 30 degrees or 3400km almost due south from here. We are roughly the same distance from the SMP as Edmonton in Canada is from the NMP.
So we are a lot farther magnetic south than you might think. But these aurora can be very fickle. For example, the visible part of the display last Thursday was only about 20 mins long. The rest was only detectable in camera. So you have to monitor the alerts and react quickly. If it's clear here, that's a matter of throwing a camera onto a tripod on the front deck. But if you live in Lithgow or Bathurst, and you are not ready to go, it may take you 20 mins by the time you pack your camera, rug up and drive to a viewing location. Sydney is even more difficult. BTW, I refer to Young as, "the big smoke."
I saw just one in 1992 when living and working in Canberra. I didn't see any others.
Re:social media
Pssst, "Ice in Space," is social media too! Ssshhh! Don't tell Leo!
I don't think I am a clinical narcissist.
Facebook is whatever you want to make it. That video on Facebook has had 3000 plays in 2 days.
The Facebook algorithm pushes the sort of content at you that you choose to interact with. Mia culpa. I admit, I do post some light hearted anti-right wing political stuff but I don't look at and so I never see any racist, hate speech, Andrew Tate misogynist crap an so on, type content pushed in my direction.
Lot's of ads. The price you pay for a "free platform" but if you keep clicking the don't show me/i'm not interested in this, it remains at a bearable low level and I just skim over it anyway. You see most content from people or special interest groups that you engage with most actively. So for me that's friends, relatives and astronomy, photography, and aurora groups.
I find it's a great and very efficient way to keep in touch or reconnect with a swathe of relatives and friends scattered all around the world. I have even connected a whole group of 2nd cousins in Adelaide via Facebook. The connection was broken in my grandmothers generation when she died 30 years ago and the connection didn't jump to my mums generation with that branch of the family. I have been in touch and went to Adelaide and met them all last year.
So Facebook can be this evil thing, but only if you steer it there. I find the overwhelming majority of my interactions on the platform, very positive.
Cheers
Joe
