If 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.
Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
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#132Well visible in Belgium starting around 23:30 ! Even with the naked eye ! (From outside the city)
Still true now? In the netherlands hard to tell anything. Certainly nothing on the level of the Swiss pictures being shared.
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#133Anyone 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 whole sky colored in: low iso (I’d start at 200) and long exposure >3 seconds. Probably between 3 and 30 seconds depending on the available light.
Those should get you started to experiment and find what you like. Enjoy!
Oh yea. Turn off the focus light, turn off the screen, and turn off the red blinking indicators. Turn all the lights off so you can preserve your night vision.
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#134This 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!
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#135I missed the news around this. Can someone share why this is happening? I thought this was only visible more north and usually green. Thanks!
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#136I'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.
please post a photo!
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#137How long ahead of time can one forecast these events?
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#138I missed the news around this. Can someone share why this is happening? I thought this was only visible more north and usually green. Thanks!
Largest solar storm in 20 years
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#139Anyone know of sources/sites that track the magnitude of geomagnetic storms as a time series? (interested to gauge the magnitude of recent ones relative to those of the past, similarly to how we may do so for earthquakes)
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#140This shows a scientific view of it: https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/space/surface/level/an...
That's a really cool website. Very responsive too.
I live in a northern Atlantic country and use it to learn about upcoming storms during storm season, days in advance of my national weather service.