Looks like the popular "blackout" photo of the NE US was a fake, according to an article on Space Weather.com. Here's the brief:
"BLACKOUT? NOT: The now-famous blackout of August 14th really happened, but this is not a picture of it. It's a fake. The image, widely circulated around the Internet, claims to show city lights across the USA and Canada after nightfall on August 14th. The continent appears brightly lit except for a deep black area in the northeast. How do we know it's fake? There are many reasons, mainly genuine images of the blackout reveal that not all cities in the affected area were dark. The blackout simply wasn't as black as this image suggests. Incidentally, there is no such thing as satellite ISAT Geostar 45--the purported source of the photo."

Here's a link to the REAL picture...http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/swpod2003/18aug03a/dmsp.gif

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Back into calisthenics mode. Summer break is over. I’ve shared with the ADS gang I’ll put up a web site soon to display some of my drawings, etc. What-a-meza-saying?

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Source: CyberAtlas

This looks cool: Wikipedia: http://wikipedia.com/