Fiery Midnight Florida Aurora!
Taken by Bill Williams on March 24, 2023 @
Chiefland Astro Village, Florida, USA
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Date Taken: 2023:03:26 13:12:20
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"What in the world happened to our western horizon the night of March 23-24", I queried the astromen of Chiefland Astro Village??!! Normally, we have a very dark western horizon as we are peering over the Suwannee River Basin and Gulf of Mexico. But my 26-minute fisheye Canon 60Da DSLR time exposure taken to capture the setting Winter Milky Way (and perhaps Vela Supernova Remnant) showed a glowing red horizon from the northwest to the south which competed with Barnard's Loop in Orion! We concluded that, because there were no rocket launches or wildfires, it was most likely airglow. The mystery was solved the next day as Spaceweather.com described a "severe geomagnetic storm" well-seen in the U.S. As far as I know, at 29.4 degrees north latitude, we are the farthest south this aurora has been witnessed and is the first I have seen here in Florida since 2003 and 1989! However, this does not mean that I am going to cancel my future aurora trip!! :)
PS - While I did not manage to capture the Vela SNR on the Canon fisheye shot, the narrowband image taken with the Vixen made up for it (attached)!!
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