Very bright Aurora Boreals
Taken by Mark Seibold on May 10, 2024 @
Portland Oregon, and Rooster Rock State Park 25 miles east in Corbett Oregon
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One year ago today, I was showing the public on an inner city street of Portland Oregon through my Coronado 40 mm hydrogen-alpha filtered solar telescope a very large solar flare on May 8th 2024. I advised them that this could cause huge auroras in the next couple nights. And sure enough it did. On the following Friday night of May 9th into May 10th on Saturday just after midnight, I drove to the Columbia River Gorge east of Portland Oregon to where the astronomy club usually holds its star parties at Rooster Rock State Park. At first it just looked like a wash of faint green light across the entire northern sky but shortly after midnight it was occurring from Due West all the way to Southeast and then at times completely encircled the entire sky for 360° arc degrees. I used my Sony a6700 mirrorless camera to take a very wide panorama that you see in this image and composite of the sun's image above from the day before to show the large solar flare and 3 weeks later added the sun's disc showing how the flare had rotated around the back and reappeared over to the right side of the sun's disc although the Earth's atmospheric seeing conditions were not as good for that second image of the sun you see it right, it was taken through a slightly hazy sky.
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