Chasing Cosmic Light
When we realized we had a clear night, we made a run out of town, but we had no idea what the night had in store for us. It turned out our one clear night coinc...
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When we realized we had a clear night, we made a run out of town, but we had no idea what the night had in store for us. It turned out our one clear night coincided with a solar storm that produced auroras at a level rarely seen. According to Spaceweather.com, "a fast-moving [coronal mass ejection] hit Earth’s magnetic field ... as Earth moved into the CME’s strongly-magnetized wake, the storm intensified until it became a G4-class event. For more than 9 hours, it was the strongest geomagnetic storm of the current solar cycle." My travel companions got some amazing photos, and I was lucky enough to have my camera working just enough to get some shots too.
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