Tag: astronomy
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All Time Record beat Monday, but not today.
Squeaky All Time Record We easily beat our record high for the day yesterday! The Airport recorded an official high of 29.5ºC and Alberniweather got up to 29.1ºC. The previous record at the Airpot was 27.0ºC in 2006, but the big news is we set a new all time high for the day, just beating…
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December 2020 – A Wet Month ending the year warm.
A very rainy, but not quite record rainy, month.
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ALERT! Aurora may be visible tonight, fog willing (or avoiding!)
The Sun is coming for us. The folks over at www.spaceweather.com are expecting a G3 class magnetic storm to erupt around the Earth as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) ejected from the sun yesterday is headed our way. This could produce aurora visible as far south as Oregon! So that means us too! Below is…
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Better idea at where to find Comet Neowise
I managed to see the Comet last night (both with naked eye and a small telescope). It was really exciting! It’s pretty dim and I don’t have the stuff to be able to take a picture but here’s where I saw it. The arrow shows both the position and the direction of the tail on…
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Time to look for a Comet!
Look for it over the Beauforts (Just left/west of the tallest peak) around 11PM each night. The weather continues to be variable and less than summery. Though early this week might feel a little better. So perhaps we can turn our attention to something a little more fleeting, but rewarding, a Comet that can be…