aurora

[mellowtigger]

Hey, Minneapolis. Go outside tonight. Actually, nearly everyone should give it a try. The spaceweather forecast was for this storm to produce aurora to latitudes down to Minneapolis, but there are reports of people catching photos of it all the way down to Texas.

Open up your smartphone camera in night vision mode. Look everywhere. Look northeast, look overhead, look southeast.

There's beautiful aurora everywhere!

Is that even a narrow band of orange that I see between the green and red areas? That's just amazing.

I scared a rabbit at my front doorstep when I walked outside to take this photo. It scared me right back when it darted away.

Comments

[house_wren]

Thank you! I live further south than where you are, but after reading your post I walked up the driveway, through the trees, and saw a glorious red aurora. There were a few columns, too. And a star-like shape overhead. I took some photos with my phone; what I saw as white, they showed as green. I live out in the country so there are few lights. I'm impressed that people in the city could see it.

[mallorys_camera]

Beautiful!

[mellowtigger]

I'm so glad I reached someone in time to view it! The Reddit pages for different locations are filled with everyone posting their local pictures of the beautiful displays. Keep looking again tonight. There are additional coronal mass ejections headed our way, and it is predicted to be a doozy.

[mellowtigger]

I've seen the green ones before. It was nice to see the red. The orange was just spectacular and unexpected! :) People were posting on Reddit communities this morning too, as the solar storm lasted throughout the dark hours. You should continue to look tonight, if you missed it. The storm continues, and the next wave tonight is predicted to be a doozy.

[wispywillow]

I saw them for the first time last night :) I'd missed the other recent times they showed up in Ohio, but thankfully I had prior notice this time.

[mellowtigger]

Isn't it beautiful? Especially when you get more than just green in the sky. Be sure to look out tonight too. The solar storm continues and is predicted to intensify from its already strong start. :)