[gse-aa] Auroral Alert plus Meteors

[Charles Deehr]

The auroras seen in Alaska, Canada, Russia, and southern Scandinavia this
week will be not as extensive as those we will see when the sun begins to be
more active in 2008.  Watch the aurora forecast web site for updates.
Auroras are more active around equinox, and high-speed streams from the sun
are sweeping Earth now and for the rest of this week.  Auroras may reach the
Northern States of the US, Scotland, Southern Scandinavia, Tasmania, and
southern New Zealand.  

There will be an extra show for those of you living on the west coast of the
US and Mexico, Hawaii, and the eastern Pacific region.  A meteor event
called the Aurigids is predicted to begin at around 11hr Universal Time on
September 1, 2007, and last for an hour.  There is predicted a meteor rate
of up to 200 per hour originating in Auriga.  That constellation will be in
the NE sky for most of the viewing region.  The moon will be bright and the
sun will rise shortly after the display, but the colorful traces of this
special meteor shower will be worth the effort to see them.  A map showing
the darkened Earth from which the event may be seen is attached to this
email.

The prediction may be up to 20 minutes early or late, so Alaskans should
start watching the western sky by 02:30 am AKDT, West Coasters by 03:30 PDT,
and Hawaians by 12:30 am.   A map of the local time at 11:00 am UT (GMT) for
all of the Earth's time zones is the second attachment to this email.
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