Posted on 05/20/2024 12:46:22 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: It seemed like night, but part of the sky glowed purple. It was the now famous night of May 10, 2024, when people over much of the world reported beautiful aurora-filled skies. The featured image was captured this night during early morning hours from Arlington, Wisconsin, USA. The panorama is a composite of several 6-second exposures covering two thirds of the visible sky, with north in the center, and processed to heighten the colors and remove electrical wires. The photographer (in the foreground) reported that the aurora appeared to flow from a point overhead but illuminated the sky only toward the north. The aurora's energetic particles originated from CMEs ejected from our Sun over sunspot AR 3664 a few days before. This large active region rotated to the far side of the Sun last week, but may well survive to rotate back toward the Earth next week.
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.
That is a big cheeseburger.
Like a giant purple mushroom.
A county or too north of you! Hope you got to see them
This is a big purple onion about to be sliced up for cheeseburgers.
I’m calling it a giant celestial fig.
Beau did - but I slept through the whole thing. ;)
I’ve seen them a number of times when camping in the summer in Canada - Eh - and one time when I was a kid in Winter in Sun Prairie.
Dad woke me up in the middle of the night to see them. It was just a lot of ‘green ribbons’ in the sky that time, BUT a small flock of Snow Geese also flew over in formation in the night sky and that was d@mn cool! They were HUGE and flying very low. Magical. :)
P.S. Where ya been? Haven’t seen you on the Garden Thread at all this month. Please message me. :)
“Ah c’mon... let’s throw some fire on it... /sarc”
I get it. Let’s say the photographer threw in some AI.
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