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Oct 20-21st Meteor Shower and Aurora ?Friday and Saturday 20/21st October could see both the Orion Meteor shower
and a possible Aurora each of which would make some good DX working possible
on the From http://www.spaceweather.com/ ORIONID METEOR SHOWER: This weekend, a mild but pretty flurry of meteors will shoot out of the constellation Orion. The source is Halley's Comet. Although the comet itself is far away, ancient clouds of dust from the comet are nearby, and Earth is about to run through them. The best time to look is Saturday morning, Oct. 21st, just before local dawn: sky map. CORONAL HOLE: There's a gaping black hole on the sun today, shown at http://www.spaceweather.com/ in an X-ray image from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite. The technical term is "coronal hole." It's a place in the sun's atmosphere where magnetic fields open up and allow solar wind to escape. A stream of solar wind flowing from this hole should reach Earth on Oct. 20th or 21st, possibly sparking a geomagnetic storm. Sky watchers, be alert for auroras! Related URL's: 50 MHz Meteor Scatter Mode JT6M WSJT Meteor Scatter Software
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