Posted on 05/10/2024 5:28:28 PM PDT by bitt
A powerful solar storm will make the northern lights visible to most of America — including the New York City area — Friday night, but you’ll need to get out of the city if you want a chance at seeing the auroras.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has upgraded the looming geomagnetic solar storm to a level 4, which is capable of disrupting America’s electrical grid and making the northern lights visible as far south as Alabama.
The key to witnessing the natural phenomena will depend on the amount of cloud coverage and light population, making upstate New York or Long Island the best bet for city dwellers.
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Understood.
It is frustrating.
Clear as a bell here at 46.16N 119.17W. Sun visually appears to have just set.
They were pink in the Memphis area. It faded away and is coming back a little.
A guy on the radio said they were visible over the ocean in South Carolina.
It’s still pretty light herein the south Sound area of Western Washington. We’ll see if we see anything
I’ll see them first!
I had the same experience! Just buys of haze, but good photos 😊
I’ll try again tomorrow night and video it to see if they move!
Enjoy what you can see I guess but if you have to use your camera to see it is that really the Northern Lights?
I dont remember any of the vikings commenting on what version of Iphone they carried.
My wife’s friends in Paducah, KY, were able to get pretty nice pics with their I-phone, even in town! I was surprised.
Wifey, daughter-san, and I were at the wildlife area about an hour ago. At times we could pick out a little structure by naked eye. At others it was just a faint, diffuse glow. There’s a little night-glow from nearby towns — I wish I could figure out a darker spot. Maybe up in the National Forest if I want to drive a bit over an hour... (Nope.)
Wifey tried to take pics with her Galaxy phone, but all it picked up was darkness. I do have an old Panasonic digicam that has a “nighttime” setting, but for it to work well I’d almost have to put the camera on a tripod or other stable mount. 11:45 pm now — Maybe I’ll just wait for more pics from others.
Well, it was just serendipity for me: I traveled north to visit some friends and then found out about the solar storm. I am happy to have the pics but hope one day to go to Scotland and see them with my naked eyes!
Worked well on our friends’ I-phones. My wife’s Galaxy phone got nothing - naked eye was better.
I’m in Hayfork, just northwest of Redding, Ca.
Live way out in the boondocks so no light pollution.
Turned off all the house and yard lights.
0 cloud cover, waited for my eyes to adjust to the dark
all I saw was the Milky Way; didn’t even get a damn T shirt!
I went out again a little while ago — the glow had subsided a bit, but returned: Seems like less structure than B4, but more coverage. It’s still mostly just a faint, diffuse glow to the naked eye.
I read down the comments a ways after I posted, then went back outside with my phone and YUP, shows up real good on the phone even took some pictures.
I-phone?
Oh, that is beautiful! We both fell asleep early last night but our neighborhood FB page put up some pretty pictures of it. We’re in North Carolina.
I think they mean ‘light pollution.’
We got a few good photos in the neighborhood around 2:45 am. Very hard to see with the naked eye, but phone cameras set at slow exposure got some nice pink and green pics.
Saw a very nice display this AM at midnight and 4:00 AM — a nice change from the blizzard we had three days ago which closed the highway for 24 hours and backed up traffic for 12 miles...
SW Montana.
IOW, it happened be and it’ll happen again. Went out at midnight and saw nothing but am in TX.
“Did you look through your camera lens? We are in Georgia and just took some amazing photos.”
Hubby does astrophotography and was going to get out his 7’ telescope, camera, and computers. We had cloud cover, plus major light pollution last night. So it wasn’t being in the south, as we learned this morning when my niece sent her gorgeous pics from GA.
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