Magenta candles with green flames?
Posted on 10/16/2024 12:44:51 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Sometimes the night sky is full of surprises. Take the sky over Lindis Pass, South Island, New Zealand one-night last week. Instead of a typically calm night sky filled with constant stars, a busy and dynamic night sky appeared. Suddenly visible were pervasive red aurora, green picket-fence aurora, a red SAR arc, a STEVE, a meteor, and the Moon. These outshone the center of our Milky Way Galaxy and both of its two satellite galaxies: the LMC and SMC. All of these were captured together on 28 exposures in five minutes, from which this panorama was composed. Auroras lit up many skies last week, as a Coronal Mass Ejection from the Sun unleashed a burst of particles toward our Earth that created colorful skies over latitudes usually too far from the Earth's poles to see them. More generally, night skies this month have other surprises, showing not only auroras -- but comets.
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Ya shoulda used just white.
And I haven’t seen anyone do that in a LONG time.
Honestly, I missed it, it was so faint.
Keep reading......
Transformational science strikes again...
...a supersonic river of hot atmospheric ions thought previously to be invisible...
Who...what is STEVE? SHEESH...does EVERYTHING have to be named?
Faint to give a faint chance of spotting it.
Maybe next time I’ll put random characters in whitesmoke as a faint attempt at a feint?
I used to live in North Dakota, which had auroras. It pretty much looked like the short green stripes in photo. Rarely, we’d see a few more colors.
STEVE - See my post #19. It is an acronym and I don’t fully believe the explanation of what the emission is theorized to be. But, that is the current guess.
Oh good. I thought it might be our new Galactic Overlord, Steve The Magnificent.
Haha
Magenta candles with green flames?
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