Red Aurora or SAR
Taken by Jane Gnass on October 6, 2024 @
Alaska Range, Denali National Park, Alaska, USA
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Camera Used: NIKON CORPORATION NIKON D610
Exposure Time: 4/1
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 2000
Date Taken: 2024:10:07 06:44:49
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Details:
There had been two solar X-flares in recent days.
The full-frame Nikon D610 Picture Control setting was set to Neutral vs. Vivid. The first image was not edited at all. The images that followed were edited to approximately match the sky brightness of the first image. Lenses: started with 35mm, then 20mm, then as the curtain grew in size, a 14mm was utilized.
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Due to a lull in aurora activity, I had originally put on a 35mm lens to capture some mountain peak "portraits" with faint aurora color in the sky. That was the wrong lens to have on at that moment, or was it...? Turning around I saw a faint red-orange glow above the Alaska Range mountain tops. "Oh, cool, let's see what that looks like." It was solid red, beyond possibly anything I've ever captured with a camera.
For this red aurora and/or SAR (Stable Red Aurora, which isn't actually aurora) sequence of images, the ebb and flow time frame was 22:44 to 23:44 Alaska Daylight Time, 8 hours behind UTC.
This rich red light ebbed and flowed through several flare-ups over the 60 minutes I photographed it. It continued, but I drove to a new location after that hour.
It had started with a naked-eye visible color in the sky, which was a warm red-orange glow above the mountain tops, similar to a candle wick burning in a pool of melted wax inside a jack-o-lantern, creating a very dim red-orange glow.
About 90 minutes later, I was 30 miles south at Broad Pass outside of Cantwell, AK. When a large substorm erupted, it had started with a similar red-orange glow above the mountain tops in the northern sky.
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