Northern Lights
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I've gone out to look at the northern lights in central Iowa before, and if I gazed long enough, I could make out some barely discernible green smears in the sky above the horizon.
There was no mistaking it last night. It was so big that it was difficult to capture all of it in one photo
There was no mistaking it last night. It was so big that it was difficult to capture all of it in one photo
I usually have to take a minute for my eyes to acclimate from being in the lights inside before I can see anything in my backyard. I was out there snapping pics for a few minutes and came back in. Mrs. Velo went back out 15 minutes later and said I had to come back out. I walked out and could clearly see the bright red swash in the sky without any acclimation to the dark. It was bright.
Again, this is in the Twin Cities so the sky wasn't particularly dark either. We have light pollution.
Again, this is in the Twin Cities so the sky wasn't particularly dark either. We have light pollution.
This is basically what it looked it to my naked eye in Johnston last night.
The SpaceX rockets have a unique look to the trails they make and when they started flying frequently in southern California I saw a guy on the street staring up at one and he goes "Is this the end?".
I wonder if anybody totally unaware of this or what northern lights are had similar funny reaction last night, especially somewhere like Texas where there's absolutely no reason to ever expect it.
I'm in Van Buren county, first photo at 7:45 second at 9:15. Green was easy to see early, pink just barely, but at 9:45 both colors were easily visible. I had my phone in night mode and all but one photo at 9:45 failed to take.
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Good viewing times for this? We talking like 6pm, 7, 8, ? Looked like most of yesterday was around the 7-9 region?
We were watching when that bright red pillar seemed to just kind of shoot up out of nowhere. It was so intense we could still see it when we got back home with all the city light polution.
Got away from town lights and with the naked eye it started as another set of "city lights" rolling in like a storm. Just got brighter and brighter. Then reds just started showing up. All without a camera. Just amazing.
The 3rd CME is arriving now....
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The X5.1 coronal mass ejection has just arrived at the Sun-Earth L1 point.
ACE detected the impact a few minutes ago. Solar wind data at ACE is
unreliable due to the ongoing S2 solar radation storm. Ignore the low speed!
The Bt jumped to 35nT with a northward Bz component at the time of
writing.
Follow it live on spaceweatherlive.com
CORONAL MASS EJECTION
ARRIVAI DETECTED
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LIVF
SpaceWeatherLive
@_SpaceWeather_ 15m
The X5.1 coronal mass ejection has just arrived at the Sun-Earth L1 point.
ACE detected the impact a few minutes ago. Solar wind data at ACE is
unreliable due to the ongoing S2 solar radation storm. Ignore the low speed!
The Bt jumped to 35nT with a northward Bz component at the time of
writing.
Follow it live on spaceweatherlive.com
CORONAL MASS EJECTION
ARRIVAI DETECTED
SW
Disclaimer: NOT my photos, but thought was cool enough to share from social media (and I'm always fascinated by the different altitude perspective on these)
If that happened on Christmas Eve every year I'd probably still believe in Santa.
So is the thought that this CME arrived too early to be spectacular tonight? I'm not sure what this means...
I don't really either but I thought it would be fun to post some jargon.
