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Started by Ianab, Today at 06:48:41 AM

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Ianab

Forecast solar storm was all over the news today, promising an exceptional aurora display. We seldom get to see it here, too far North, but we ventured out after dark to see if we could at least capture it with cameras. Brightest I've ever seen, with visible colours and shifting bands of light.

We went up to the National Park gates, higher up and away from town lights. Sitting there waiting for our eyes to adjust I leaned out the car window to do a test shot with the camera. Had a look at the shot, and said to Lil that the show had started. Just a small blotch of colour initially.



It soon grew and was naked eye visible, although more detail from the camera. Widest shot couldn't get all the light in the frame.  



Playing around, doing a time exposure while flashing a torch across the girls to light them up and get the lights in the background.

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thecfarm

Nice!!!
Wife was up at 10 but nothing at that time.
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NewYankeeSawmill

Sky looked very similar to what @IanB posted outside Knoxville, TN....
I saw them once when I was at college in Oswego, but that might have been the mushrooms?



Can't believe they had an impact this far south... No electrical issues to report, but I've never seen the sky that color before. Freaky. You can see how earlier in human history how events like this would result in myths and stories being told for generations...
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Ljohnsaw

What we saw just NE of Sacramento.




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Just North-East of Sacramento...

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Old Greenhorn

Solid cloud cover here last night. What time are you folks seeing this show the best? What time does it start for you? I know my ham friends are having fun with the Aurural propagation on the VHF bands, because it's rare, but the HF bands I suspect are in the dumps for the same reason.
 Just curious when y'all are seeing it best?
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NewYankeeSawmill

But cow farts are causing all the warm weather...  :thumbsup:  ffcheesy  ffsmiley  :silly:
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newoodguy78

Quote from: Old Greenhorn on Today at 09:34:11 AMSolid cloud cover here last night. What time are you folks seeing this show the best? What time does it start for you? I know my ham friends are having fun with the Aurural propagation on the VHF bands, because it's rare, but the HF bands I suspect are in the dumps for the same reason.
 Just curious when y'all are seeing it best?
OG I saw them last night a bit after 11 in southwestern Mass. Not sure if it got more brilliant or not. Hadn't heard anything about them and thought I was seeing things at first , of course there wasn't anybody around to confirm what was going on. Was kind of a reddish color here.
Type of thing that just makes you stand there and feel humbled.

SawyerTed

We saw similar to Ljohbsaw.   
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barbender

 I went and looked at them last night around 11 pm from the shores of a large local lake. They were muted, not as dramatic as I was expecting from all of the forecasts. 

 I guarantee most of the dramatic pictures you will see are due to cell phone cameras going into automatic night mode. In person they wee underwhelming compared to displays I've seen in the past, but when we took pictures with our phones they were stunning. I told my son, "take another picture so I can see how awesome they are!"😁 

 What was different was all of the areas they were visible from. It's a fairly common occurrence for the Aurora to be visible from northern MN, but not northern Texas!
Too many irons in the fire

barbender

 This is from my wife's phone. This is NOT what it looked like in person.
Too many irons in the fire

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