I'm in the southern hemisphere (near Antarctica) and the sight is absolutely insane, almost terrifying... its a bright red aurora. Never seen anything like it.
people live near antartica?
Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
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#182I 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
from sheer curiosity, I had to try to see what was in that image. just a meager push of the exposure revealed some color on top of the horrid compression:
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#183Wow! Check out the view from the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland! https://www.jungfrau.ch/en-gb/live/webcams/#webcam-jungfrauj...
Any place with that much snow in mid-May is just make believe to me at this point in time.
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#184Can't see it from where I am in North Carolina as it's sadly overcast, but I'm sseeing photos from friends as far south as Georgia and Alabama of vivid pink auroras.
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#185Checking in from Detroit here… the aurora is actually super visible on the iPhone camera. Much more than from the naked eye (although they are slightly visible… I have a lot of light pollution around me though.) I’m curious what causes it to come in better in my iPhones sensors… different wavelengths perhaps?
longer exposure times.
The longer exposure doesn’t seem to affect other aspects of the night sky though, I can see stars way better with the naked eye than my phone will show. That’s probably just because of stars being point sources and hard for the camera to focus on in an otherwise black night sky.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Like, visible visible? I’m a lot farther north than that and if I hadn’t known there was something going on, I’d not have noticed it. It kinda shows up on camera, but naked eye viewing is not even worth a walk to the nearest window. Nothing to see, really.
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#187If you want the best possible view with the naked eye, give them a chance to adapt to the dark properly. The human eye is about 100,000 more sensitive after an hour in total darkness. A smartphone screen or car headlight is enough to undo it.
Makes sense.. all the serious astronomy apps are in black and red, and back before we had phones, we used to use red flashlights if we needed to consult our charts.
just like all of the 80s military action films with red filtered flashlights or CNC rooms on ships. sometimes, meme like content isn't just made up. as an amateur (at best) astro type person, you learn very quickly how true how quickly a brief flash of white light can ruin your night vision. walking around during the day without sun glasses can also extend the amount of time it takes your eyes to acclimate to the dark. however, once you do allow your eyes to acclimate to the dark, it is amazing to me still how much we can actually see.
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#188I feel I need to report my experience from Denmark, Jutland. It started with white broad streaks, which most of all looked like fog, but then perhaps after 10 minutes or so, we saw colors of red, purple and green begin to emerge from the these streaks. Most astoundingly it all seemed to emanate from a fluctuating point in the middle of the sky. If you looked closely at this point you could see it fall into itself, mo…
Thank you for sharing that. I wonder at what speed the morphing happen, also a sense of proportion. Very hard to capture that in anything but direct experience.
Per Wikipedia, most auroras are 300 to 600 km wide, and occur at 90 to 150 km above surface. It' below LEO (300 km), but it's considered outer space already. You actually see a thing the size of a mountain range shining and morphing above you in space.
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#189What's the lowest latitude it's being seen from in Europe?
These were apparently taken from Calar Alto, Almería (37°13′25″N 2°32′46″W)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNQEcVZX0AA13FE?format=jpg&name=...
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Based on the about: “Code monkey at the elongated muskrat’s not-earth corporation”
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