The auroral view while driving up Atigun Pass, North Slope Borough County, Alaska, US on November 1, 2013. Credit and copyright: Jason Ahrns.
Posted on 11/01/2013 2:38:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Over the past several days the Sun has unleashed more than half a dozen major flares including four X-class events. The resulting aurora in some parts of the world have been beautiful. Here’s a collection of recent images taken by Jason Arhns in Alaska. It seems the aurora is just blanketing not only the sky, but the landscape as well!
See more below, as well as a video showing 23 of the 26 M- and X-class flares on the sun between Oct. 23 and Oct. 28, 2013, as captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. It also shows the coronal mass ejections — great clouds of solar material bursting off the sun into space — during that time as captured by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.
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I showed my son the Aurora for the first time, night before last. I’m in upstate New York.
It was nowhere near as spectacular as the above image, but easily visible. Long strips, oriented north-south. Many colors, but dim.
Thanks BenLurkin, extra to APoD.
Peep my stuning Aurora.
I remember my first time seeing an aurora borelais. in now western NJ... it was sometime in the ‘90s... an event seen as far south as GA.
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Very Beeberlicious.
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