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Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by kubanczyk »

fransje26 wrote: post #242
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.

> we also have the artificial sunrise here 24/7 by means of greenhouses. That's a Dutch thing. You can choose between being a great exporter of unripe, tasteless tomatoes, or seeing Aurora Borealis, but you can't have both..

> a great exporter of unripe, tasteless tomatoes

The small ones are okay-ish (cherry tomatoes) if that makes you happier

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Post by bitcurious »

deadbabe wrote: post #191
chgs wrote: post #49

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Doesn’t look like that in reality. If I take a photo on my phone here in the UK midlands I get pink and green in all directions with a 3 second exposure. However with just the naked eye it’s like super high level clouds

Ok why is it that some people say northern lights look EXACTLY like these spectacular photos, and others say in real life they are actually barely visible and you need a camera and very dark skies? Is there some kind of running joke I’m missing? I saw some northern lights in Iceland but they were very dim and underwhelming, I didn’t even know what I was looking at until I photographed them and saw the vivid green str…

> Ok why is it that some people say northern lights look EXACTLY like these spectacular photos, and others say in real life they are actually barely visible and you need a camera and very dark skies?

There is a lot of variability in people’s night vision. I viewed this past aurora with a friend, we went to a relatively dark sky location and let our eyes adjust for 30 minutes. In that setting, I could make out the green and red coloration while she mostly saw it as a while glow.

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Post by unkulunkulu »

lukan wrote: post #372
asicsarecool wrote: post #368

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I don't have binocular vision. I lived aboard a sailboat for a few years. I'm quite active with rock climbing etc and I honestly don't think I would be able to do anything better if I had binocular vision... Just a thought

Good for you! But I know I am worse doing climbing etc. with one eye. It is probably something you can train and get used to, that it is not such a big deal, but I cannot imagine doing it on the same level one eyed.

But then again, you did not have enough motivation to spend time learning it. A pirate captain might have enough to actually train this way.

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by djha-skin »

We went out to Simpson Springs in Utah to see the borealis. There was a bit of a flare up. Like others have said it looked like streaky fog to the naked eye. My camera picked up something a little better. My wife's camera was a Samsung Galaxy Ultra S21 and she picked up gold it looks so good on her camera but anyway here's my shot.

https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/jytxIMvelaGs

You can see the lights of dugway Utah in the background

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by robk »

joshvm wrote: post #194
niutech wrote: post #118

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Can you share a photo?

Currently pretty good at the South Pole. The pink skies are wild. Green auroras are fairlty common over the winter, but it's unusual for it to be this red. If you're interested in a real time video, here's one I captured a few weeks ago from our "back yard" (excuse the Instagram link) https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6T27pEO7dQ/?igsh=eXJyOGtuY2l...

Amazing thanks for sharing

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by dom96 »

irthomasthomas wrote: post #266
grafelic wrote: post #101

I 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…

I was out flying a camera drone on the river Dee between Liverpool and North Wales filming the sunset, when I started getting magnetic interference warnings. At the same time, I started to see flashes in the sky. Then my vision was filled with sparkling lights. A few minutes later I got an aurora warning from my brother and the aurora app. KP 8-9 As the sun went down I was waking through a woodland. I thought the dar…

I was in the area too. Decided to go for a drive to Southport beach to try and catch it and saw.. nothing.

Yesterday evening I tried Crosby beach. Also nothing.

Did I just go at the wrong time? It was between 11pm and 1am.

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by keepamovin »

sgt101 wrote: post #258

How did this compare to the Carrington event?

The EM disturbance to Earth (Dst) of Carrington was -1000, whereas this one was -250. But the flare that produced Carrington was estimated to be an X80, whereas our max was around an X3.98. I think that means that Carrington produced around 0.008 W/m^2 of X-ray flux whereas ours produced around 0.0004

The non-linear effect (20x weaker flare only 4x less effect) is accounted for by how Earth's magnetic field has weakened in the ~165 years since Carrington.

Re: Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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Post by fransje26 »

clmul wrote: post #308
fransje26 wrote: post #242

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> we also have the artificial sunrise here 24/7 by means of greenhouses. That's a Dutch thing. You can choose between being a great exporter of unripe, tasteless tomatoes, or seeing Aurora Borealis, but you can't have both..

This is what I could see with my camera in the east of the Netherlands, and even with the naked eye I could easily see some red at times: https://imgur.com/a/kloWEOl

Very nice! Thank you for sharing!
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