Really just hoping to see them with the naked eye and didn’t want to use the phone
Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch (and maybe big Northern Lights show)
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I believe most ag hands-off-steering is GPS based, which will have problems for a bit yet. Automotive lane centering is all camera based so shouldn't be impacted. (Automotive automated driving uses a suite of sensors including some GPS depending on the function - camera, RADAR, LIDAR, ultrasonic for sure).
At this time of year?
At this time of day?
In this part of the country?
At this time of day?
In this part of the country?
Just returned from northern Boone County and could immediately see pillars from my Ankeny driveway before my eyes were fully adjusted. Incredible. At 10 PM it was covering over half the sky in dark locales.
Just went out my front door (60 miles north of Seattle) and they were directly overhead - pinks and greens. Our neighborhood is dark but there is a streetlight right on our corner and our exterior motion lights turned on. I was still able to see them with my unadjusted naked eyes. My son got a decent photo, and my wife and three oldest are heading out to find a darker, more open spot to look at them and take pictures.
Just went out into the yard here outsideAlbert Lea, and there it was, aurora borealis. Big sort of dull/hazy patches, stationary, in the sky, seeming to have these waves of light of a cosmic/massive scale passing through and dimly illuminating the patches, giving me that 'I'm but a spec of dust in the wind' sense....
Of course it was rain/clouds here all night. Clearing just in time for sunrise so I won’t see anything. When I was out at 2 am, the clouds did look to have a glow to them, but it could have been my imagination.
We were headed home going East on the road from Polk City and the line of cars going North on Ankeny Blvd was huge also.
Could you see those colors with the naked eye? I was disappointed with the faintness of them with my eyes but through my phone camera it looked beautiful.
For me it looked like streaks of fog until you got the camera out.
Two from north of Don Williams Rec Area and one from within Ankeny around midnight.
We got a small glimpse in NW Arkansas which I'll gladly take since we never get to see anything like that this far south.
Couldn’t see much with the naked eye here but got some decent shots with the camera in night mode.
The key with these that are a bit faint is to have the exposure time on your camera/phone to around 5-10 seconds. I put my iPhone 15PM on a stand and set the exposure time to 10 seconds and got some amazing shots. Went out at 11:30 and there was some, but it was a bit more gray/blue. Went out around 3:45 and it was amazing.
This is probably the worst shot I got because I was under the deck. I moved up top later and got some amazing shots (not yet uploaded). Parkinson's shakes be damned, a stand and long exposure FTW.
This is probably the worst shot I got because I was under the deck. I moved up top later and got some amazing shots (not yet uploaded). Parkinson's shakes be damned, a stand and long exposure FTW.
Pretty disappointing with the naked eye. If you didn’t know it was happening, you would have never noticed anything. At least here west of CR out in the country.
But when you took a picture, it looked pretty cool.
But when you took a picture, it looked pretty cool.
