Aurora Borealis, 10th/11th October
Taken by James MacAlpine on October 11, 2024 @
Upper Michigan, USA, 46.2N
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All images were taken after 01:00 UTC October 11, 2024 (After 21:00 EDT October 10).
The best viewing here was around 2200 EDT when moisture was thinnest/near clear, some air moisture and passing clouds made the clearest viewing window from 2100 to 2345 EDT; still the G4 storm was so bright aurora was always picked up easily by camera, and naked-eye the entire sky in all directions was brightened with the glow and moving lights.
Like three nights ago (October 7th/8th), it was one of those rare nights when you know the sky should be near pitch black other than stars, and where you just wander outside gawking in all directions in awe at the ghostly lights traversing and dancing in the sky.
(Images) From 2200 to 2215 it was incredibly intense from directly overhead and naked eye seeing greens, dark reds, and deep dark reds coming down all over. The two still images are from 40 seconds apart at 02:10 UTC, exposed only one second at ISO800, f1.5, looking slightly Southward of directly overhead. The time loops are, 1) looking northward as moisture and clouds began to move away and a curtain of green pillars moved overhead and southward, a 15 minute loop, around 21:00 EDT, and 2) the green/pink, looking slightly southward of directly overhead, a two-minute loop, at 22:07 EDT.
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