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« on: 05 September 2012, 06:24:44 UTC »
A colleague of mine is seeing significant auroras over mid-Vancouver Island (Parksville).  Nothing visible from here near Victoria.  He reported via facebook tall  rays, and widespread greenish curtains.  Seen around 0500UT. His preliminary pics:
http://rascvic.zenfolio.com/joe/h4194ce82#h4194ce82


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« Reply #1 on: 06 September 2012, 14:47:42 UTC »
Nice. We've had clouds since the CME. Sigh.
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« Reply #2 on: 07 September 2012, 19:03:00 UTC »
Wow, pretty big and nice auroras for your area!
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« Reply #3 on: 07 September 2012, 19:09:57 UTC »
Oh yes, here in southern Finland we finally had some clear skies during decent auroral event. On the sep 3/4 night we had decent activity in the evening with tall arc, some rays and quite a few belts low in the horison. Then after midnight much bigger substorm with decent and quite bright curtain. Both active periods lasted quite some time, unlike the much brighter big stuff in last february and march, when in both times the "big" aurora was over in few minutes.

http://tomeklund.kuvat.fi/kuvat/aurora/2012/03+sep/
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« Reply #4 on: 08 September 2012, 17:26:36 UTC »
Great photos, Tom.
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