Aurora animations

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Aug 072011
 

I took some of the photos of last nights auroras and made animated GIFs out of ’em. Since these things get really big really fast, below are dinkysized version; after the “Continue Reading” are larger (500 pixel wide) versions. They are sped up substantially… six second exposures, IIRC.

 Posted by at 1:02 am

  2 Responses to “Aurora animations”

  1. Pat Flannery says:
    August 7, 2011 at 7:20 am

    Here’s what’s generating all the auroras of the past few days:
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/06/us-utilities-noaa-solarstorms-idUSTRE7746UA20110806
    SOHO shows we have a whole line of solar eruptions going around the mid-northern latitudes of the Sun:
    http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/realtime-update.html

  2. kbob42 says:
    August 7, 2011 at 10:00 am

    That is rather cool.

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