3196: Aurora Coolness - Revision history

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+:[A graph of “aurora coolness” (Y-axis) over time (X-axis), with aurora coolness having four categories from coolest to least cool:
-:[A graph of “aurora coolness” over many hours. The coolness starts at “visible glow on the horizon, color only visible in photos” and gradually moves up and down to “spectacular ribbons of color spanning the sky and illuminating the landscape”, which is is labeled “5 or 10 minutes”, then gradually goes back down, almost getting all the way up, and eventually ending back at “visible glow on the horizon, color only visible in photos”.]
+:* Spectacular ribbons of color spanning the sky and illuminating the landscape
-:[Caption below the panel:] Aurora tip: If you get good views of the aurora, keep watching the sky; you might suddenly get great ones
+:* “Oh wow, it’s getting really bright now.”
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 :[A graph of “aurora coolness” over many hours. The coolness starts at “visible glow on the horizon, color only visible in photos” and gradually moves up and down to “spectacular ribbons of color spanning the sky and illuminating the landscape”, which is is labeled “5 or 10 minutes”, then gradually goes back down, almost getting all the way up, and eventually ending back at “visible glow on the horizon, color only visible in photos”.]
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-The graph in this comic reports events during an {{w|aurora}} as a function of time, and shows that truly interesting events are fairly frequent, but often short-lived and not predictable. Both the caption and the title text encourage the viewer of an aurora to be patient with the 'boring' stuff, as more exciting events could happen with little or no notice. The caption gives general advice, while the title text reports [[Randall]]'s own experiences.
+The graph in this comic reports events during an {{w|aurora}} rated on 'coolness' over time, and shows that truly interesting events are fairly frequent, but often short-lived and not predictable. Both the caption and the title text encourage the viewer of an aurora to be patient with the 'boring' stuff, as more exciting events could happen with little or no notice. The caption gives general advice, while the title text reports [[Randall]]'s own experiences.
 The comic was published at around the time when low-latitude auroras were [https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast particularly anticipated] to be visible, and may even have been displaying themselves to Randall in the immediate run-up to publication — unless, as indicated by the comic (and title text) it was mainly the anticipation of this that was exciting, with any eventual brief sighting merely being icing upon the proverbial cake. Randall has previously ([[2233: Aurora Meaning]]) established that auroras are "cool" when they occur at subpolar latitudes, including the latitude of eastern Massachusetts, where Randall resides.

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-The graph in this comic reports events as a function of time, and it shows that truly interesting events during an {{w|aurora}} are fairly frequent and are not predictable. Both the caption and the title text encourage the viewer of an aurora to be patient with the 'boring' stuff, as more exciting events could happen with little or no notice. The caption gives general advice, while the title text reports [[Randall]]'s own experiences.
+The graph in this comic reports events during an {{w|aurora}} as a function of time, and shows that truly interesting events are fairly frequent and not predictable. Both the caption and the title text encourage the viewer of an aurora to be patient with the 'boring' stuff, as more exciting events could happen with little or no notice. The caption gives general advice, while the title text reports [[Randall]]'s own experiences.
 This comic is similar to [[2914: Eclipse Coolness]], in which the occurrence of truly-interesting ("cool") events is reported as a function of location; the graph reports that most of the interesting stuff happens close to the path of totality, with the event elsewhere reported as boring.