Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora • Hacker News Board

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by lsllc » Sat, May 11, 2024, 2:42 AM UTC

dddrh wrote: post #133

lsllc wrote: post #110

Anyone have any DSLR settings recommendations? (newbie here, Canon EOS R5). Located North Eastern US, just about approaching dusk. Fingers crossed!

Use a tripod and use a remote or set a 2 second delay on your shutter press if you start using longer exposures at low iso (anything longer than 1/10 of a second IMO) Settings really depend on the effect you are trying to capture: - if you want to try and capture it like your eye sees it: high iso (as high as you can stand) and aim for between 1/500 and 1/30. - if you want to capture a more painterly look with the wh…

Thanks, I got some good pictures! AF is def. a problem ...

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by cozzyd » Sat, May 11, 2024, 2:46 AM UTC

Just saw it in downtown Chicago (by the lake). Faint, but visible with naked eye. Easier to capture with my pixel 8 than with my (handheld) DSLR, even with a fast lens...kicking myself for not grabbing my tripod

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by dgellow » Sat, May 11, 2024, 2:47 AM UTC

Damn, I missed it

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by dgellow » Sat, May 11, 2024, 2:49 AM UTC

notfish wrote: post #134

alpha_squared wrote: post #70

This 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.

This is the biggest storm since 2003! We hit a G5 on the SWPC geomagnetic storm reading, and my team had to power down components on our satellites to keep them safe!

Now that’s a badass sentence. What is your team working on?

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by sva_ » Sat, May 11, 2024, 2:50 AM UTC

I just came home, went up the mountains. Absolutely crazy what I was able to see. I live somewhere mid to north Germany. Super stoked to go further up north based on what I saw in the sky. I have to say the images don't even nearly do justice to what I saw tonight, it was absolutely amazing. I spent some 6 hours up there. Just poor phone images, sorry.

https://imgur.com/a/lPI9EXc

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by Reason077 » Sat, May 11, 2024, 3:02 AM UTC

TomWhitwell wrote: post #34

consp wrote: post #15

Most 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.

It’s just about visible (much more so through an iPhone camera) in central London right now

That's pretty incredible. Central London is so bright at night that very few stars are even visible usually.

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by pyuser583 » Sat, May 11, 2024, 3:04 AM UTC

idlewords wrote: post #89

bsdooby wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Carrington comes to mind…

That had aurora visible in Florida and Hawaii. It's going to take a little more effort from the Sun to match that.

Current storm is visible in Florida and Southern Texas, per NOAA.

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by aio2 » Sat, May 11, 2024, 3:05 AM UTC

dgellow wrote: post #163

Damn, I missed it

lmao same

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by swader999 » Sat, May 11, 2024, 3:05 AM UTC

mcint wrote: post #141

yodsanklai wrote: post #81

Any chance it'll be there tomorrow too? Seems beautiful in the French alps, wonder if it's worth trying to go there tomorrow https://www.skaping.com/chamrousse/la-croix?archives=MTcxNTM...

There were some follow on flare events. "Additional activity expected" https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g5-conditions-observed today https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/homepage in the future

Yep X5.8 registered about an hour ago.

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by bozhark » Sat, May 11, 2024, 3:26 AM UTC

frfl wrote: post #145

grafelic wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I took one semi successful photo using my crappy beat-down a20e Samsung phone. It doesn't do what we saw justice at all. https://imgur.com/5mlD22W

grafelic's image looks totally black on my crappy laptop monitor unless I turn brightness up to 100%, even then it's barely noticeable. Here's a color enhanced version of grafelic's photo that shows the color bands more easily, https://i.imgur.com/IS8JWD8.jpeg Added some blur after color adjustments to remove pixelation artifacts.

I’m b mobile, it’s still black with a lil highlight.

Near, but definitely not retrospective