[Sca-cooks] Re: Re: OT- Northern Lights in period?

[Betsy Marshall]

o-ooo! I can help on this one- the Maunder minimum.. a dearth of
sunspots and auroral displays in the early years of 1600-1720.(possibly
earlier..) Suspect connected Climate effects- way cool (oops, a pun!)
try here;

http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/sp/great_moments.2.html

or google on "Maunder minimum", sunspots, solar physics.
Pyro (physicist in training)

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Behalf Of JAMES REVELLS
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 7:57 AM
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: Re: OT- Northern Lights in period? 

Hej!
    I just read an article on radio reception in "The Grantville
Gazette" 
(a shared universe SF book set in a town that goes back from 1999 to
1630's) 
about the conditions of the 1600's as far as sun spot activity goes.  It

stated that there were very few sun spots at that time, so there would
be 
few northern lights.  I don't have the book in front of me to quote, so
I am 
not sure how early this goes, but it did state that there were detailed 
records kept, by the Chinese, of sun spots activity for hundreds of
years 
before the 1600's date.
Pax,
Olaf
----- Original Message ----- 
> Hmmm. This is OT for this group, but does anyone know if we have any
> period writings or legends that mention the Northern Lights? Perhaps
at
> least from the Norse? What did they say they were?
>
> Stefan
> 


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