NFR Possible Lower Latitude Auroras this weekend

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My biggest surprise was how much more the camera picks up than the naked eye. You could definitely see it IRL once it got going around 11pm, but the camera with nighttime exposure really brings out the colors.
 

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Can someone explain to me what I was watching last night when things really got started? There was a hole in the sky directly above us atop our little mountain in Cicero from which light swirled and radiated in all directions before fanning out and sweeping due East directly at Whitehorse mountain. It was really the beginning of the show to my eye but maybe others saw it differently. I hadn’t yet thought to take pictures when it first started but I got a few before that kinda faded out and it was just a procession of colors fanned across the sky.

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Here’s some obligatory photos to prove I was there. The cell phone camera did a good job of enhancing the colors but what it didn’t do unfortunately was pick up the brilliance of the mountain, in fact it made it disappear like some sort of magic trick. But with the naked eye I could see Whitehorse brilliantly which I’ve never seen before at midnight. It was larger then life and watching the kaleidoscope band of light disappear over its craggy peaks and make the glacier glow was absolutely incredible. I hope someone with the proper camera and know how was able to capture that properly. I’d hang that print in my living room.0AE09ABF-EE6D-4D4A-84A7-EE4FF82CB9E3.jpeg47019F2F-4E37-4C56-B95D-93FA8E4E391E.jpeg32F4CB9C-605D-4445-8B49-494442C2BF3E.jpeg74D4E172-ECA7-485E-AAC1-F5F82436917D.jpeg

The last two photos show (or don’t show) the phantom mountain. So crazy.
 
Creatch’r said:
Can someone explain to me what I was watching last night when things really got started? There was a hole in the sky directly above us atop our little mountain in Cicero from which light swirled and radiated in all directions before fanning out and sweeping due East directly at Whitehorse mountain. It was really the beginning of the show to my eye but maybe others saw it differently. I hadn’t yet thought to take pictures when it first started but I got a few before that kinda faded out and it was just a procession of colors fanned across the sky.

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Point of origin of the storm I assume. I'm thinking the path of the flairs are shooting straight and the trajectory of the flairs do not change. However the earth's orbit will make it appear the eye is moving.
 
DanielOcean said:
Point of origin of the storm I assume. I'm thinking the path of the flairs are shooting straight and the trajectory of the flairs do not change. However the earth's orbit will make it appear the eye is moving.
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So you’re saying that was neither the eye of Sauron nor a galactic butthole? These were the only theories we were working with last night while sitting with some 13 year olds.
 
I got up at midnight, looked out the front door and didn’t see anything going on. Got back up at 2:00 to go fishing and drove up the hill. Still nothing. Nothing I could see on my I-5 drive either. I must have still been a sleep. 😂
I’ll get up again tonight to go to a better spot to try and see them.
SF
 
Creatch’r said:
So you’re saying that was neither the eye of Sauron nor a galactic butthole? These were the only theories we were working with last night while sitting with some 13 year olds.
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Your theories are way more fun to entertain. Hope the family are well.
 
Stonedfish said:
I got up at midnight, looked out the front door and didn’t see anything going on. Got back up at 2:00 to go fishing and drove up the hill. Still nothing. Nothing I could see on my I-5 drive either. I must have still been a sleep. 😂
I’ll get up again tonight to go to a better spot to try and see them.
SF
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It was pretty vague to the naked eye at our home in Tacoma, but once we took our phones out and looked through the camera....really pops. It was everywhere on our horizon.
 
We don't have "night" at the moment in AK, just a prolonged period of astronomical twilight bracketed by nautical and civil twilight.
And we just had an atmospheric river in SE, tons of cloud cover.
The cloud cover was sorta flickering last night at about 1am, but that was it.
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The kind of picture you want to get is am angry face in the lights looking down clenching it's teeth. Those pictures get the most money at the sell-off. Make sure you get the angry face!
 
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