September 10 Severe Aurorae Storm over Hixburg, VA
Taken by Frank Elder on October 10, 2024 @
Hixburg, VA, USA
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On the evening of October 10, I was trying to photograph the comet at sunset but was unable to see it through the thin clouds. As I was giving up, I checked Spaceweather.com and saw that a severe geomagnetic storm was predicted. I turned the camera north and saw the aurora was already visible through the clouds and post-sunset light. I immediately started photographing and took pictures continuously for 4 hours. As I panned the camera to get some panoramas, I noticed the aurora was visible in all directions, with a low arc of light over the North and a higher arc of light over the half-moon to the South. I kept turning the camera in circles hoping to get 360-degree panoramas. At 10:03 pm the light blew up, becoming amazingly bright. God was really putting on a show! I continued to photograph until about 11:00 when they started to fade so I went home to rest. At 1:00 am on October 11 I checked Spaceweather again and saw the storm was still severe, so I returned and photographed for another hour. I took over 600 photographs and have stitched them into about 90 panoramas. The 360 views are amazing as they show both arcs of light following the earth’s magnetic field. I have uploaded some of the best here. These were taken in the Hixburg area of Appomattox County. Let me know what you think.
Canon R6, 24-105 f/4 lens at 24 mm, most at 10 sec, f/4, ISO 1600.
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