Posted on 01/01/2016 9:47:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Triggered by the impact of a coronal mass ejection on New Year's eve, a moderate geomagnetic storm brought a celebration of sky lights to planet Earth's high latitudes yesterday. In this New Year's nightscape, the shimmering reddish curtains of aurora australis along a southern horizon are captured over Morgiana, SW Victoria, Australia. Of course, more permanent jewels of the southern skies are on the scene. The southern Milky Way, Alpha and Beta Centauri, and bright stars of the Southern Cross are on the left. In silhouette, branches of the large foreground tree stretch across the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic clouds. The bright star framed near the tips of tree branches at right is Achernar. Alpha star of the constellation Eridanus, Achernar is sometimes known as the southern end of the river.
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[Credit and Copyright: Gill Fry]
Saw some good stuff here in Northern Michigan tonight.
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I saw a brilliant ‘shooting star’ last night, made a wish to win the lottery and send you the million dollars that I promised you.
And it got better about 2 am!!!
But always almost overhead was a constant pulsing from 10 pm to roughly midnight, sometimes pinkish. Lit up the entire backyard. And it was relentless, about the speed of those disco balls they used to hang.
That was to the north-northwest, and to the north-northeast were colors on the horizon. Then a few hours of nothing, and then the pulsing returned only weakly but the color show was spectacular!!!
What caused that pulsing?
OK, pulsating.
And it was very strong and behind clouds. Like someone had a pink light behind a sheet and the light was flickering. Not really flickering but pulsating I guess.
It lit up the yard quite well.
I’m down with that! :’) Thanks FN!
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