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Jan 09, 2014 17:31 | #16

Woah woah woah, now you have my head spinning ;P. Ok I read online that there's chances of it around 11PM Central tonight. is it worth a shot? Weather looks cloudy but I'm willing to sit out there for a little bit?

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Jan 09, 2014 22:21 | #17

Clouds are socked in here in Wisco and any close neighboring states. I'm not even gonna bother.

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Jan 09, 2014 23:20 | #18

Went out in southern MN. Nothing but hazy clouds.

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Jan 09, 2014 23:28 | #19

Two excellent resources:

OVATION Aurora: http://helios.swpc.noaa.gov/ovation/

Clear Sky Chart: http://cleardarksky.com/csk/

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Jan 10, 2014 19:45 | #20

Ovation is good but the view line is way off. I learned to read the data and that is more reliable.

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Jan 10, 2014 19:55 | #21

scpictaker wrote in post #16595367

Ovation is good but the view line is way off. I learned to read the data and that is more reliable.

Cool, any suggested reading for that?

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Jan 11, 2014 13:15 | #22

NOAA helped a lot. Also Wikipedia has good info on it.

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Jan 14, 2014 20:40 | #23

Here is what I use for Aurora forecast

http://www.softservenews.com/Aurora.htm

And a shot I got of them this summer back just a day or so after the 4th.

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Jan 15, 2014 21:26 | #24

I shot the same ones from northern Minn!

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Jan 15, 2014 21:36 as a reply to @ scpictaker's post | #25

From Ironton, Minn. July 5th/6th

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