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Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
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Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
#62Thank you! Just made some (blurry) long exposure photos on an old digital camera. Can't see it with the naked eye here.
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#63Even more live views at the main page: https://www.foto-webcam.eu/
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#64This shows a scientific view of it: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/an...
Does it shift around? It's quite absent in the western US and Canada right now: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/an... Of course, it's still a beautiful sunny warm day too where I am so it'll be 5 hours or so before it's dark enough to see it.
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#65Wow, I just went outside (South West of France) to plug the car for charging before going to bed. I noticed unusual, faint light patterns in the night sky, like long spikes coming from the North. It was not the Milky Way, we can see every clear night. Color was mostly gray slightly pink. Wondered what was that ... My first aurora !!!
> It was not the Milky Way, we can see every clear night.
I'm exceedingly jealous. I don't think I've ever lived somewhere that I could see it, no matter how clear the night. Looking at images of "north america at night" vs "europe at night" I can see why.
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#66Well visible in Belgium starting around 23:30 ! Even with the naked eye ! (From outside the city)
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#67Most of Europe == Not covered by light polution. (and specific areas) (it's orange outside and it's sodium vapor related) edit: kind of whish I was at my parent's place. It's a lot less poluted but no go here; nw europe densly populated, we also have the artificial sunrise here 24/7 by means of greenhouses.
Even in the light polluted London you can still see it, even if it's faint.
From the ground I cannot see it (I'm a bit north of london latitude wise so it should be better), and we have nicely combination of areas of greenhouses and petrochemical companies burning off here so it might be far worse than central london unfortunately. I'm not too high up but my view north is quite ok ... and unnatural orangeish and void of any pink.
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#68Is there a map of the world showing where it should be visible? I wonder how far I would need to drive.
Where are you located?
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#69Is that happening because Earth is loosing its magnetic field and the end is near? ;)
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#70This also appears to be happening in the southern hemisphere as well and growing brighter. My layman understanding is auroras are the result of coronal mass ejections interacting with Earth's atmosphere, but I don't recall these incidents being large enough to be so visible in the northern and southern hemispheres simultaneously.