#aurora
How a Photographer Captured Aurora, STEVE, and the Milky Way in One Shot https://petapixel.com/2023/12/05/how-a-photographer-captured-aurora-steve-and-the-milky-way-in-one-shot/ #astrophotography #northernpixl #Spotlight #spotlight #milkyway #nightsky #england #aurora #steve
10 Photos From the 2023 Northern Lights Photographer of the Year https://petapixel.com/2023/12/05/10-photos-from-the-2023-northern-lights-photographer-of-the-year/ #astrophotography #auroraaustralis #capturetheatlas #auroraborealis #northernlights #photocontest #Spotlight #lansdcape #contest #aurora #News
Vento solar ejetado por buraco no Sol provoca auroras mais fracas que o esperado
#VentosSolares #TempestadeSolar #TempestadeGeomagnética #Sol #ErupçãoSolar #Buraco #Aurora #CiênciaEEspaço
Even though the gust of solar wind that has been promised for a few days hasn't appeared, tonight's #aurora prediction looks stronger than I would have expected.
Buraco no Sol dispara material que deve provocar espetáculo de auroras na Terra
A LARGE HOLE IN THE SUN'S ATMOSPHERE: Geomagnetic storms are possible on Dec. 4th and 5th when a solar wind stream is expected to hit Earth's magnetic field. The gaseous material flows from a massive hole in the sun's atmosphere. What does this mean for Earth? More lower latitude aurora? https://spaceweather.com has the latest.
Aurora Corona - beaming on down
Aurora Corona - leaving light upon our town
The dawn is still glistening - the dew is all around
Aurora Corona
- looks like we very nearly drowned Oh Gaia!
The city of #Denver is updating its bike 🚲 plan and looking for public input!
#Cyclists and #urbanists in #Colorado are encouraged to provide feedback through an online survey, available thru Dec. 15: https://denvergazette.com/news/denver-seeks-public-input-on-citys-expansion-plans-for-bike-lane-network/article_d14d8f88-8274-11ee-a570-c315892c386e.html
@fuck_cars #CO #AutofreiCO #DenverCO #ColoradoSprings #Pueblo #Durango #Walsenburg #Boulder #Aspen #Aurora #FortCollins #Broncos #Texans #FuckCars #WarOnCars #TheWarOnCars #autofrei #Urbanism #BikeTooter #cycling #WalkableCities #StrongTowns #TaylorSwift #ClimateCrisis
The other day, we had amazing auroras up here. And when the moon rose, it created surreal scenarios by lighting up the landscape but not quite hiding the auroras. All in all, a magnificent display by nature.
"Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear,
Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green,
Or, like a nymph, with long dishevell'd hair,
Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen:
Love is a spirit all compact of fire,
Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire."
- #ShakespeareSunday, Venus and Adonis
#NorthernLights above Egilsstaðir in eastern #Iceland.
@photography #aurora #DailyPhoto #photography #WeatherPhotography
Please read the ALT tag for more...
Here's yet another picture from the auroral display of 1/2 December. It shows an SAR Arc "Stable Auroral Red" arc well to the North of the main display. What a night! #aurora #auroraaustralis #NewZealand
So here's what happens when you "unfisheye" a picture of a coronal aurora taken through a fisheye lens. Taken at 1:23am on 2nd December from the Otago Peninsula #aurora #auroraustralis #NewZealand
I just can't keep looking at images I took during the auroral display of 1/2 December from my home on the Otago Peninsula. Look at the exquisite detail in this one, which is a 2 second exposure at 01:25 on the 2nd Dec. #astronomy #aurora #auroraaustralis
A few aurora pictures from my trip to Iceland. Out of the 700 I took :)
Taken near Mývatn
Sony A6600
Sony E 16mm f/2.8
#aurora #auroraborealis #photography #iceland #northernlights
Are fou able to use #aurora ? I got a "server down for maintenance" for 2 days already ...
@0xThylacine
What a wonderful gift to us!
Thank you so much!
I'm going to look at it on the big monitor asap.
#aurora #AuroraAustralis #SouthernLights #animation #shotcut #tasmania #LongExposure #timelapse
At last I've got a photo of the Aurora!
This is from last night, too faint to actually see (hopefully better performances in the coming days) but a long exposure did the trick. I've processed the colours (lightness) so they stand out a bit more, subtracted a dark frame, used a hot pixel filter to clean it up. Otherwise, that's it.
18mm, 32sec exposure, f3.5, ISO 400.
You can see the trails of two aircraft if you look closely.
Colorado strikes “excited delirium” from all law enforcement diagnosis, training documents
https://www.cpr.org/2023/12/01/colorado-strikes-excited-delirium-as-law-enforcement-diagnosis/
The geomagnetic storm is over & the #aurora has returned to a low intensity phenomenon.
For #cloud nerds: I've posted the code, #cloudformaiton, and slides of my #BCN #Serverless #Meetup presentation on scaling #wagtail CMS to zero, using #aws #AppRunner and #Aurora serverless
https://github.com/v-studios/scale-to-zero
I read that there was a pretty spectacular #AuroraAustralis last night, anyone in the southern hemisphere catch it?
#aurora from #southport last night. First time I have “seen” or rather captured on camera as wasn’t visible to naked eye. Pleased to see the plough too.
It’s #aurora season, the Northerners get all the attention but I love the look of our Southern Lights #AuroraAustralis in pink (photo credit: Simon Capone)
Here's a timelapse taken through my fisheye lens (an 8mm f/4.0 lens) between 00:20 and 01:53 on Sunday 2nd December. It is comprised of 95 images initally of 30 seconds but eventually reducing to 14 seconds. This isn't particularly beautiful but it does show the scale of the display and a SAR arc quite nicely despite the clouds. I love circular fisheye images as they give a much nicer representation of the "dome of the sky" rather than panoramas in my opinion! #aurora #NewZealand
Northern lights tonight in Superior National Forest, MN. Photo by my #aurora chasing partner @bigendiansmalls 🤩
The geomagnetic storm that began this morning is well underway now: the North American #aurora should be visible at mid-latitudes this evening. #winnipeg #wpgweather
Ever wondered what the Aurora Australis looks like in real time on video? Your wish is my command. Here’s a sequence I shot earlier today showing the rapid pulses of the aurora which aren’t captured on timelapses! #aurora #auroraaustralis #realtime #NewZealand
I’m trying to work out if this is also Aurora, or just light pollution from the town. 🤔
2012-12-01 This evening's Aurora
Taken at Windyedge - the other tree in Perthshire ;) - at 2235hr as the aurora was beginning to fade again.
#aurora #auroraborealis #perthshire #scotland #naturephotography #landscapephotography #photography #astrophotography
Here’s some timelapse video from last night’s display of the Aurora Australis as seen from the Otago Peninsula in southern New Zealand #aurora #beauty #auroraausttalis
#aurora #NorthernLights from Perthshire, Scotland about half an hour ago. iPhone photo.
Space Weather
Live camera in Finland:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkLjO4TE634
If you’re in the UK or Northern Europe & have a clear horizon to the north without too much light pollution, go outside *now* & see if you can catch the aurora borealis 🤞
(We’re in a pub near the Grassmarket in Edinburgh, so, err …)
Ooh. Aurora Watch UK has just issued a red alert, suggesting Aurora Borealis may be visible from all parts of the UK - meaning parts of Ireland may be able to view them too. 😀
The UK's Met Office has related info here: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/specialist-forecasts/space-weather
Space Weather
Aurora Alert: Mid-latitude aurora now being reported down to ~42°N over Europe by amateur radio operators. Visual aurora is likely in the northern sky from this latitude.
Radio Emissions Over Sunspots Challenge Models of Stellar Magnetism - Sustained radio emissions originating from high over a sunspot are getting researc... - https://hackaday.com/2023/12/01/radio-emissions-over-sunspots-challenge-models-of-stellar-magnetism/ #astrophysics #astronomy #science #aurora #space #radio #solar
This is Steve. (I refuse to call it STEVE; that’s a forced backronym. They called it Steve as a placeholder, because nobody knew what it was or what caused it, and the name stuck. It’s Steve. Not STEVE. Hi, Steve.)
Steve is a flow of charged particles that shows up as a narrow purple band, often accompanied by green “picket fence” spots. It’s not new, but it wasn’t realized that it was not just an ordinary auroral phenomenon, but had a separate mechanism.
Image: Isaac Diener
A crappy phone snap, but I was #cycling up by the wind farm when the #Aurora Watch UK app gave a red alert, and sure enough … #auroraborealis
Speaking of CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejections, when a big blob of charged crap explodes off the Sun—CMEs affect Earth when they hit us, causing aurora, radio interference, etc), I’ve only seen the aurora once. I went to college at about 45°N latitude, and once we got lucky; a geomagnetic storm caused by a CME produced a visible aurora. Not the most spectacular—a pulsing but diffuse green glow over much of the sky.
I’ve never seen Steve.
01/12/2023 - Welcome to Meteorological winter. What a cold day to start December. We headed out for a walk up the hill just after sunset. Took tea with us. It was a chilly sit but wrapped up and little wind, felt OK. Nice to relax, have our butties and watch the night sky slowly, very slowly turn. On the way back we noticed a faint hint of aurora to the north. We stood and watched for a bit as we finished our flask of coffee. Cold now, round -3, time to go home.
Another shot from last night's display of the aurora australis here in Southern New Zealand. What a night. This is a 2 second exposure taken at 134am on 2nd November 2023. #aurora #newzealand #astronomy
Simply astonishing night of aurora here in the Deep South of New Zealand. Best display I have ever seen since moving here! Epic #aurora #beauty #NewZealand
"De-orbiting #SpaceX #rockets are smashing temporary holes in the upper #atmosphere, creating bright blobs of light in the sky. Now, scientists have warned that these 'SpaceX auroras,' which look like glowing red orbs of light, could be causing unrecognized problems — though they are not a threat to the #environment or life on #Earth."
@edavies You're not relevant, or weren't for this forecast as it was about freezing temperatures over central and southern Scotland . . . With regards to the Aurora, at the moment there's no significant activity, but we all know how quickly that can change
Meanwhile here's a few photos I took last weekend
#windywilson #weather #scotland #aurora #temperaturecast #ohyahoorsire
So the aurora australis was so bright tonight i could actually record it with my video camera! This is real time video. Also it was windy and bloody cold! #aurora #auroraaustralis #video
Space Weather
Aurora Alert: Mid-latitude aurora is continuing, now reported by radio amateurs down to ~52°N over Europe.
A moderate G2 Geomagnetic Storm is in progress and appears to be reducing in strength.
WHAT A BRILLIANT NIGHT. The aurora was so enormous tonight that i had to fire up a fisheye lens just to capture the whole display! Here's a picture from my observing perch on the Otago peninsula at 1:35am on 2nd December. #aurora #auroraaustralis #NewZealand
We are currently at planetary K-index Kp = 7!
Looks like the CME arrived at earth a little later that previously predicted.
Hopefully those in the western part of N America and in the Pacific can get to see some bright auroras.
It is predicted to peak again at Kp = 6.67 later today between 21:00 and 00:00 UTC.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusiasts-dashboard
#CME #aurora
5/n
Space Weather
Aurora Alert: Mid-latitude radio aurora reported down to ~55°N over UK and Europe.
A Strong G3 Geomagnetic Storm in progress.
Alaska is at a KP 7 tonight and Sitka is right in the thick of it! Aurora watchers get your butts out there!
There are NO clouds! I repeat..there are NO clouds! Red alert!
Space Weather
NOAA SWPC has updated the CME predictions to include no less than four CMEs which are due to arrive in the next couple of days.
"With 3 CMEs already inbound, the addition of a 4th, full halo CME has prompted SWPC forecasters to upgrade the G2 Watch on 01 Dec to a G3 Watch. This faster-moving halo CME is progged to merge with 2 of the 3 upstream CMEs, all arriving at Earth on 01 Dec. G3 (Strong) conditions are now likely on 01 Dec."
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/wsa-enlil-solar-wind-prediction
NORTHERN LIGHTS POSSIBLE:
Thanks to the latest #solar #flare from the Sun earlier this week, the #Northern #Lights will be quite strong the next several nights.
The #Northland will have some #clouds at times, but there should be some decent #viewing opportunities, especially when the #Aurora #Borealis peaks Thursday night.
Heads up, friends.
A Class 4 Geomagnetic storm is headed our way for end of this week! There should be lots of nice aurora, even getting to mid-latitudes.
If you get to a dark sky, and have a phone that can do 30-sec exposures, you should be able to catch them. Point towards the N/S poles.
Geomagnetic Storm Category G3 Predicted 1 December UTC #aurora
#Colorado jury denies #ElijahMcClain’s humanity, declaring his life worthless and showering one of his murderers, #NathanWoodyard, with money.
By the time I get to #Aurora
#BlackLivesMatter #ICantBreathe @SamTLevin
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/28/elijah-mcclain-nathan-woodyard-colorado-police-killing
Last night was a delightfully pointless road trip with @bright_helpings
I heard about the #AuroraBorealis being particularly strong and visible across the UK that night. Aware of the full moon, I cross referenced a map of stargazing sites with cloud coverage to try and find somewhere cloud-free, and came up with Malham, a Dark Skies Discovery Site.
We drove there fuelled by #BBCRadio1 dance anthems and talking nonsense at each other. By the time we arrived, there was a light cloud cover, enough for the full moon to drown out the sky, so there was no chance of seeing the #aurora. Plus it turns out the site is south-facing.
We did see a lovely #MoonHalo, but so did @hag back home while walking Gary! After a while in the literally freezing car park, we headed home. The journey was more important than the destination and it was good to get E out of the house for a while and spend some time together.
Last night, the Aurora appeared over the north of Scotland. An almost full moon and plenty of cloud made photography conditions fairly difficult, but that’s part of the fun of Aurora photography. This shot looks north from the Black Isle towards the Cromarty Firth and Easter Ross.
#aurora #auroraphotography #lovescotland #scottishphotography #landscapephotography
Aurora, Edinburgh
Sometimes you just gotta sit on a bench beside the Observatory, eating fish & chips from a favoured chippy (Stefano's on Morningside Road) in a chilly -1ºC under light of a full moon whilst watching the remains of an aurora display as Orion rises.
Fuji X-H2, 8-16mm @ 10mm, a 3-frame vertorama processed in DxO, Hugin and LuminarAI.
#aurora #auroraborealis #edinburgh #scotland #NightPhotography #nightsky #photography #vertorama #astrophotography
Screenshot (25 Nov 2023 19:07:29) The aurora alert is now red, so a good chance to see the #NorthernLights or #aurora #AuroraBorealis
Eben gab es kurz Polarlichter die im Nordosten von NRW schwach zu sehen und gut zu fotografieren waren.
#Polarlicht #astrofotografie #Nachthimmel #astrophotography #nightsky #auroraborealis #aurora
People in Scotland, there's a major aurora going on - worth checking if you can see it! (I'm in central Edinburgh with no way of getting to any height just now, so no, I can't see it!)
Hat auch die Sonne Auroren? Astronomen beobachten erstmals Polarlicht-typische Radioemissionen über einem Sonnenfleck. #Sonne #Polarlicht #Aurora #Astronomie #Radiostrahlung
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/hat-auch-die-sonne-auroren/