Harlan Thomas
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The Aurora Guy, Photographer | Aurora Photographer | Comet Hunter #northernlights #aurora #aurorapursuitist #photographer #nightsky #comet #Sun #Moon
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Happiest of Earth Day everyone!
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"It's Difficult Saying Good-bye"
20230227T1300Z, South of Calgary, Alberta.
As the Sun rises the aurora takes it's last gasp before disappearing in the morning light. I took this image 1.5 hours before sunrise, the Sun was 5 degrees below the horizon.
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
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"Trip The Lights Fantastic"
An auroral show like no other best describes this dis-jointed video, I move the camera dependent of where the best part of the show is. The sequence is from 20230227T1200-1300Z, taken 110 kms South of Calgary along Highway 2
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"Magic At Castle Mountain"
Junction of Highway 1 and Highway 93, 20240511T0824Z
I've always wanted to do an auroral shoot at this location but the conditions were never quite right. As we abandoned our Middle Lake shoot due to cloud cover, we used the Windy app to determine that
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"What is Happening"
Highway 93 West of Highway 1, 20240511T0904Z
An amazing display of corona's tonight!
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#northenlights
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"The Kiss"
East of Calgary, 20231202T0116Z
The three loves of my life, Caran, the aurora, and Meteors, all caught in one image! God is gracious!
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#Meteor
#Love
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"The Burning Bush"
I wonder if this is what Moses saw?
South of Calgary Alberta along Highway 2 20230227T1300Z. The most beautiful auroral pillar/ray that I have ever seen.
@TamithaSkov
@erikapal
@halocme
@SeshSad
#Auroraborealis
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Hard to believe but the analysis of the X2.8 solar flare has been done that was quick. The solar flare did have an associated CME, that is Earth directed arrival on the 17th.
#CME
#SpaceWeather
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Nice minimalistic foreground to capture the aurora
Aurora shows this year are filled with some beautiful pinks and reds! 😍
#auroraborealis
#aurora
#northernlights
#saskatchewan
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"If I Had Too Choose"
NE of Calgary, along TWP-262 just East of Highway 21, March 23, 2023 at 2304 hrs MDT, 15mm, ISO 6400, F2.8, 3.4 sec
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These are some of my images from the night and morning of February 26, and 27th. The images were taken 25 kms East of Granum Alberta.
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"Beggars Can't Be Choosy"
Cheneka Alberta, 20190919T0315Z
What a way to start the night, driving West on Highway 1, focused on my driving but, my eyes straying to the Northern horizon occasionally, praying for the clear sky God to open up the sky for the aurora. My prayer is
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One of the most incredible sunrise Aurora that I have witnessed 20170528T1110Z
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Coronal Hole (CH) 76 has now turned to face Earth and it's Coronal Hole High Speed Stream (CH HSS) is about 2 days from us, as a path has been cleared by the multiple CME's that preceded us we can expect a pretty decent show. If monitoring the solar wind watch for a rise in
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"The Fifth Element"
This "The Great Spring Show" on the 23/24th of March had many unusual features, in this image the grey blue, aurora on the left is caused by Helium and Hydrogen atoms I have not seen them to this extent before.
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It's quite amazing that the Aurora finished off the way it started, with deep red curtains with a touch of green. These 2 images are taken 10 hours apart the 1st at 20230227T0200, the 2nd at 20230227T1300Z.
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#Alberta
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"I Can See You"
20230424T0545Z, NW of Calgary along Highway 766. It was a fight with the clouds all night, it made for some interesting images, with the aurora overpowering the clouds when substorms arrived this was one of those moments. The auroral ribbon ran across the sky
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Often I manage to capture the aurora when the kP is 2, this morning was one of those times. With asolar wind of 334 km/s one would think not. But the CIR shock is what's important, and being out there when it occurs thank you's to
@SNHWx
@Vincent_Ledvina
@nenecallas
@halocme
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"Heavenly Magic"
Cheneka Alberta, West of Calgary, roadside pullout, 20230919T0314-0406Z. The aurora was overhead as soon as the clouds cleared on my drive West of Calgary. I quickly pulled over knowing that I may only have moments to catch the Corona. The corona looked odd in
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"What almost full Moon"
The aurora overpowers the almost full Moon in Granisle BC 20230902T0730Z.
@TamithaSkov
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#northernlights
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South of Calgary Alberta along Highway 2 20230227T1200Z. The International Space Station (ISS) cruises through the G3 storm.......
@EmUV4
@nenecallas
@TamithaSkov
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#CME
#NASA
#ISS
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"Aurora Nation"
Seebe, Alberta 20230616T0600-0930Z
My decision to head West to the mountains was a sound one, I based it on the mountains having not as much wildfire smoke from Northern Alberta, it worked. The aurora fired up at 0600Z with a discombobulation that lasted 20
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December 21, 2023 Winter Solstice; These images were taken at 1800 hrs MST, on December 01, 2023
How times change when I was an alpinist my favourite day of the year was Winter Solstice, as I moved into astronomy it became my most unfavourite day In a couple of months the
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"Auroral Impact"
20230917T0430-0530Z North of Calgary Alberta.
This timelapse is about 2 hours after the arrival of the CME, that hit us this morning.
#Aurora
#AuroraBorealis
#NorthernLights
@TamithaSkov
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What an absolutely amazing Active Region, AR13664 defies logic. Is a >X6 in the making?
#spaceweather
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"Come As You Are"
Castle Mountain Banff National Park 20240511T0830Z
It was an interesting shoot at this location because every person was North of the bridge along the river, so I decided to shoot South in the direction of the bridge, it was frustrating as people were coming
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Rare Blue Auroras over Canada
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"Seeing Is Believing"
Seebe, Alberta 20240419T0945Z
The largest auroral pillar of the year surpassed 60 degrees in height, and to see it was absolutely spectacular, it lasted all of 5 minutes.
#aurora
#Auroraborealis
#northernlights
#Aurorapillar
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Intense Reds were quite visible last night. In the image that I have attached was taken at 20231106T0404Z. I was just outside the North Calgary city limits on Highway 772.
@TamithaSkov
@spaceyliz
@TweetAurora
@ratzlaff
A splash of red was noticeably different in colour to the unaided eye. Sky glow (
#LightPollution
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#Calgary
at lower right. Image taken from north of Blackie, AB. 9:09 pm MST.
@spaceyliz
@TweetAurora
@ratzlaff
@TamithaSkov
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"The Curtains Are On Fire"
South of Calgary Alberta along Highway 2 20230227T1230Z. The most incredible auroral curtain that I have ever seen.
@TamithaSkov
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#CME
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"When The Aurora Dances"
South of Calgary along Highway 2, taken during the peak of the morning storm this beautiful auroral curtain, filled with rich greens, reds, pinks, mauve, and blue.
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
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"Glass Slippers"
Sibbald Pond West of Calgary, 20230914T0713Z, one of the most calmest times that I have seen this pond it was crystal clear. With the coyotes howling across the pond it, and a temperature of 14°C I was in heaven.
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#northernlights
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That was a stunning CME here it is in 304A.
More than likely old AR13664 will be numbered AR13694, which just happened to fire off an X2.8 solar flare at 27, 0715 UTC. There was a very large associated CME that is not Earth directed but, I am sure that we will see the shock. You can see the ejecta in 131A whcih is quite
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"The Leviathan"
North of Calgary, along Highway 772, between 20231106T0404-0414Z, I witnessed the largest auroral ray that I have ever seen. This behemoth stayed fairly stationary for 10 minutes before it dissipated, it was literally incredible to see.
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
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Four nights of aurora March 30, to, April 02,2022. I've tagged those who were part of this journey.
@SeshSad
@erikapal
@TamithaSkov
@cogie_s
@Vincent_Ledvina
@dmaluk1
@dartanner
@SolarHam
@AuroraJAnderson
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No location, time, or date but a stellar shot anyway!
Insane auroras tonight!!! 🤩
So much red caused by this G3 storm 🤯
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Well we finally have an Earth directed CME coming our way. I don't need analysis to see that this huge filament release is headed our way get ready folks this one should be a doozy!
#Spaceweather
#CME
#Aurora
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A Filament release from the Sun yesterday has been modeled and the resultant CME is a direct hit on Earth, estimated arrival is August 04, 2023.
#CME
#SpaceWeather
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20230211T0430-0500Z Gladys Alberta
I've been working on this image of C/2022 E3 (ZTF) and Mars, for 2 days never happy with the results but I am getting closer...
#Gladys
#cometZTF
#C2022E3
#c2022e3ztf
#Mars
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The four big ones of 2023, 02 27, 03 23, 04 24, and 09 26, all kP 6 or greater.
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#northernlights
#Corona
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"Painted Pond"
Sibbald Pond West of Calgary, 20231019T1040-1115Z
The vividness of the reds and oranges was quite beautiful the pillars were moving at a perfect 60 second tempo as they danced across the Northern horizon.
#AUrora
#Auroraborealis
#northernlights
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I am not buying a direct hit. More than likely a solid glancing blow at best. As this was a strong CME, I would say that even with a glancing blow we can expect a G2-G3 geomagnetic storm, if a direct hit G4
#spaceweather
#CME
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I was out early for this storm and it arrived on the 16th of March, 2015, and went into the morning of the 17th. This image was taken 20 km North of Calgary at 0900 MDT. To this day no one has been able to explain what caused the sheet of colour....
#StPaddysDay
#StPatricksDay
St. Patrick's day in 2015 saw the largest geomagnetic storm of solar cycle 24, triggered by the CME on March 15. This year's St. Patrick's day saw a huge filament eruption on the Sun. A possible effect may be felt late 19th to 20th. This video combines AIA 304Å and 193Å images.
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Seebe, Alberta, Kananaskis 20231105T1015Z
A faint SAR Arc can be seen in the second photo.
Geomagnetic K-index of 6 (G2)
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#northernlights
@TamithaSkov
@chunder10
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"On Thin Ice"
West of Calgary, Sibbald Pond 20231204T0812
The show started as an aurora band and in 10 minutes after forming it started a dance that lasted 30 minutes.
#cinnamonrolls
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#northernlights
@TamithaSkov
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A triple banger Meteor must have been incredible to see!
Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.
~ Ray Kroc
Time to start sweating!
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"No Church In The Wild"
Castle Mountain Banff National Park 20240511T0747-0843Z
My longest timelapse is a transitional piece where the aurora goes from Green to purple. I left the people in it to give an example of how hectic things can get during an auroral show that was
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Last year was my highest number of aurora imaging nights/morning since I started imaging the aurora, my count was 93, of those 93 nights and mornings 46 of them made it into the top 50 aurora days of 2023.
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"Trip The Light..... Fantastic"
Sibbald Pond West of Calgary, 20230926T0630Z
#pulsatingaurora
#pulsating
#Aurora
#AuroraBorealis
#Northernlights
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"Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain"
From the Archives 20190511T0811Z
Highway 766, Northwest of Calgary.
Blue Auroral pillars such as these are extremely rare. They are caused by ionized molecular nitrogen at high altitudes being excited and scattered by the rising Sun's sunlight.
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It's official Comet C/2023 P1 Nishimura, is now a small telescope comet! The image that I am attaching is a stack of 20, 30 sec images taken trough a Takahashi FCT-76, I stacked and processed the images in Pixinsight using the Comet Alignment tool. Then made a composite of the
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When the aurora overpowers the waxing crescent Moon, it's a sight to behold. 20230227T0620Z West of Granum Alberta. This image was taken just before the aurora went coronal.
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"The Aurora Is Music"
North of Calgary along Highway 772, 20231218T0730Z
A gorgeous unexpected night for auroral activity, a short drive to clear skies and an unbelievable show, it even went overhead.
@TamithaSkov
@PipmizerX
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#northernlights
#Calgary
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Now that is what a SAR arc looks like folks it's the upper red band. This image is quite rare as SR arc usually do not form horizon to horizon. They normally drift from West to East.
#SAR
#Aurora
A SAR Arc from New Zealand
Image Credit & Copyright: Tristian McDonald; Text: Tiffany Lewis (Michigan Tech U.)
Explanation: What is that unusual red halo surrounding this aurora? It is a Stable Auroral Red (SAR) arc. SAR arcs are rare and have only been acknowledged and studied
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Massive eruptions from the limbs of the Sun earlier today simply incredible!
#CME
#aurora
#SpaceWeather
CME arrival 20231126T0230Z
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"The Sun Also Rises"
Seebe, Alberta, 20240419T1030-1130Z
The night was long in battles, first the clouds, then the Moon, and finally the rising Sun. Needless to say, I enjoyed this geomagnetic storm, and all of the beautiful visible colours.
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
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The CME from earlier today is going to clip us with it's CME, unsure how much, but this is a filament release that is in the Earth strike zone and it appeared to be directed more towards us than the model shows. As the filament left the Sun at around 800 km/s we should see the
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"Blue Pillars"
Kananaskis County Alberta 1005 UTC
@erikapal
@cogie_s
@dmaluk1
@TamithaSkov
@nenecallas
@chrisoutofspace
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"It's Been A Long Time"
Sibbald Pond West of Calgary, 20230926T1039Z
White pillars in the aurora are rare, this is the second time in over a 1000 aurora shoots that I have captured white pillars.
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#northernlights
@TamithaSkov
@NoelBowman13
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The rising "Pink Moon" 20230405T0315Z, at the community of Edgemont, Calgary
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While SOHO updates we can see the CME associated with AR13614 X1.1 solar flare in STEREO-A it appears to be a full halo. And a little bit like an angel.
#Angel
#CME
#spaceweather
AR13614 fires off an X1.1 and AR13615 fired off a sympathetic flare of unknown size. There is definitely a Large CME associated with the flare from AR13614, and this is a 2 day arrival CME if I am correct in what I see.
#spaceweather
#CME
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"When Insanity Prevails"
NE of Calgary, along TWP-262 just East of Highway 21, I found my spot for the night. I had chosen a spot where there were no powerlines and had fairly large trees that I could use for a foreground. The farmers whose property I was parked in front of had
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A long duration solar flare an C7.1 occurred in the region of 13285/88, this flare may have a CME associated with it and as it is from the current Earth strike zone, the CME has a greater possibility to hit our magnetosphere.
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"Over-Coming The Odds"
Symons Valley Road North of Calgary 20230331T0550Z. The Aurora overcame the waxing gibbous Moon that was approx. 69% full, I was hesitant on going out because the conditions were so variable, but when the Bz swung South to -6 and held there for 30 minutes I
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Well folks that LDE solar flare from AR1396 had a CME that appeared rather weak but the iSWAC cygnet shows a different story. That is one beefy CME! Expect arrival The evening of the 9th of May or the morning of the 10th.
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"Catch Me If You Can"
North of Calgary 20231125T0930-1015Z
This timelapse was taken with the Astro-Mod Nikon D810, the pink N2 fringe can be seen on the dancing aurora band, and I could pick up the faint red pillars.
@spencerscamera
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
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"The Dance of The Auroral Beads"
North of Calgary, 202312180719-0720Z
The dance of the auroral beads usually don't last as long as one minute but in this case they did, it was absolutely amazing to watch. The auroral beads were oddly after the the end of the expansion phase of
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The Sun blows a Smoke Ring CME, now that's a first for me!
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20231106T1003-1030Z North of Calgary Alberta. The Fall Back Storm produced 2 Coronal Events this is the second.
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#spaceweather
#northernlights
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"Rise Up"
Seebe, Alberta 20240531T0831Z
As the Sun rises scattered light excites Nitrogen in this auroral pillar to an ionized state and results in a multi-coloured auroral pillar. Green at the bottom from excited Oxygen atoms, then the purple(a combination of red and blue)
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"The Lost Highway"
20230425T0545 NW of Calgary along Highway 766
Rarely do I make aurora timelapses using a GIF. But when the aurora dances as lines across the sky the GIF doesn't turn out all blurry. I use a program called Gif Maker - Gif Editor, it's a free program that
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"Mirror Mirror"
From the archives
20170528T0630Z Northeast of Calgary
#DarkAurora
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#northernlights
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"Separates of Reality"
Sibbald Pond West of Calgary, 20231019T1042Z
The colours this morning were sublime,, just incredible. The pillars in the centre stayed there for over 20 minutes, they just glowed.
#orangeaurora
#Auroraborealis
#Aurora
#northernlights
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Well folks it looks like we have a CME headed our way that was associated with an C2.9 solar flare from Active Region AR13514, that occurred at 20231212T2230Z, arrival is expected on the morning of the 16th UTC
#SpaceWeather
#Aurora
#CME
.
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The Peyto Lake Storm of August 05, 2019, produced the one of the most amazing auroral displays that I have ever seen. An un-matched visual treat for over 5 hours, with 2 coronas that were Type 1
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Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE and the aurora 20200715T0630Z
The only thing that was good in 2020 was Comet NEOWISE, a true blessing in a world locked down.
#Covid
#Neowise
#C2020F3
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
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"Is There Anybody Out There"
This corona was recorded with the Canon 60 Da, a factory Astro mod. It was taken during the 1st coronal event, and the ending is incredible such amazing movement and colour.
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
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"Go Wide or Go Home"
North of Calgary 20231218T0700 to 0730Z
When the aurora covers horizon to horizon I bring out the 12mm. The Laowa 12mm f/2.8 Zero-D, the lens is the widest lens on the market that is distortion free at 122 degrees a remarkable achievement with a lens that
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So now that we know that the X5.0 associated CME is only going to glance us, with a shock wave. What can we expect? Well a CME is made of of three parts, The shock, the Sheath and then the ejecta (CME). We will not be seeing the sheath (or very little of it) or the ejecta.
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Well folks I have finally managed to get around to counting the nights/mornings that I have caught the aurora in Southern Alberta last year 2023, and it was a whopping 93 times! Quite incredible considering our geomagnetic location, I guess it does make me The Aurora Guy
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DONKI has finished their model of the AR13576 C9.6 solar flare and it's associated CME and folks we have a direct hit, not an glancing blow but a direct hit. Here is the model.
#CME
#Spaceweather
#Aurora
That strange looking long duration solar flare from AR13576 ended up being a C9.6, it has an associated partial halo CME that is quite substantial, definitely Earth directed.
#Spaceweather
#CME
#Aurora
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For the love of colour!
Good morning! ☕️
Why do I spend so many nights outside? Well... here is the answer ⬇️
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Finally found the analysis of the CME coming our way. I am still sticking with a kP of +6 on arrival.
#CME
#spaceweather
#Aurora
Well we finally have an Earth directed CME coming our way. I don't need analysis to see that this huge filament release is headed our way get ready folks this one should be a doozy!
#Spaceweather
#CME
#Aurora
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The Moon and Venus share the night sky with the Aurora Borealis, 20230324T0418Z, NE of Calgary, Alberta. The aurora was so bright that it lit the snow green!
#Aurora
#AuroraBorealis
#Venus
#Moon
@NASA
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"Going Coronal"
On May 27/28 2017 an CME produced a G3 magnetic storm, the aurora was overhead several times and the show was spectacular lasting over 5 hours before the rising Sun drove me home!
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A very tumultuous day on the Sun with multiple M-class solar flare events, and a rather large NW filament release, quite impressive....
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kP 11 anyone, a brief excursion into no man's land!!!
#Aurora
#CME
#Auroraborealis
#G5
#G4
#G3
@RyanJFrench
@TamithaSkov
@SNHWx
@Wicky_dubs_WX
@_SpaceWeather_
@spacewxwatch
@halocme
@eelcodoornbos
@swmcintosh
@landon_wx
@ASWOGeoSphere
@SpaceWxRina
@NWSSPC
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"The Lady Dances"
Sibbald Pond West of Calgary, 20230914T0630-0915Z
#Aurora
#Auroraborealis
#NorthernLights
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"As Luck Would Have It"
Catching a Coronal Halo has been a goal of mine in aurora photography, these halo's only form from the strongest of impacts, and I feel very blessed to have captured one. The halo is on the right of the corona, it's a first for me.
#Aurora
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"Look Ma She's Overhead"
Highway 566 NE of Calgary 20231021T0740Z
The aurora went coronal this morning and was the biggest surprise of the year, I hardly expected a corona with a solar wind speed of 330 km/s, strange times.....
#Aurora
#Corona
#Auroraborealis
#northernlights
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"Wait For It"
Symons Valley Road North of Calgary 20230331T0550Z
Often when the Solar wind is in a variable state such as the night of the 30th, we are unsure whether to go out or stay at home. I made the decision to go out based on the -5 Bz staying South for 30 minutes and the
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