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Aurora Gallery back to spaceweather.com |
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| Summary: It's northern autumn and that means it's aurora season. The auroras on this page were triggered by a coronal mass ejection hitting Earth on Oct. 30th. The CME was hurled into space by one of the most powerful solar explosions in years--an X11-class flare from giant sunspot 486. See also the September 2003 aurora gallery. Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 Unless otherwise stated, all images are copyrighted by the photographers. |
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Brett Clapper,
Shelby, North Carolina, USA Oct. 31 |
#1, #2, #3 | B. Clapper: "I stepped outside around 7:00 pm local time and was amazed to see rosy-red aurora from the north to north-east! I called everyone from our astonomy club right away, one guy was in the shower - wonder if he got his towel on! These photos are from a Canon 10d at 20 to 30 seconds each." |
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Hans
Coeckelberghs, Hamme-Mille, Belgium Oct. 31 |
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#3, more |
H. Coeckelberghs: "In the early hours of the night, the aurora was very bright. I've never seen this before and it was a beautiful experience." |
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Russ Cahn, Hughesville,
Maryland, USA Oct. 31 |
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R. Cahn: "Wonderful aurora at 7pm EST in Hughesville, MD. Photo taken with a Canon G2 10 seconds at F2.0 400 ASA. |
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Andrew Felknor,
Kingsport, Tennessee, USA Oct. 31 |
#1 | Photo details: Olympus e-20n at f:2.4, 60 second exposure |
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Lauri
Kangas, Caledon, Ontario, Canada Oct. 31 |
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L. Kangas: "The aurora activity tonight was phenomenal!" |
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Matthias
Greiner-Petter, Korschenbroich, Germany Oct. 31 |
#1, #2 | none |
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Lonnie Ganz, 39,000
ft above Ontario, Canada Oct. 29 |
#1, #2 | L. Ganz: "I'm a pilot
and took a few pictures of the solar storm over Ontario tonight." |
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George
Varros, Mount Airy, Maryland, USA Oct. 31 |
#1, #2 | G. Varros: "One word: Wow! Best I've ever seen from Maryland. These auroras blotted out the stars in the background sky. Utterly incredible! Both images are composed of three 8 second exposures added together. Imaged with a Nikon CP 950." |
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Jay
S. Curtis, Galway, New York, USA Oct. 31 |
#1 | none |
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Jerry Xiaojin Zhu,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Oct. 31 |
#1, #2, #3, #4 | J. X. Zhu: "This is the most colorful show I've seen--vivid reds and greens were visible to the naked eye. The pictures were taken with a Nikon coolpix 995 camera, 8 second, ISO 800." |
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Oliver Ruesing,
Dortmund/ Northrhine Westfalia, Germany Oct. 31 |
#1, #2 | O. Ruesing: "For the first time in my life I've seen auroras here in the central part of Europe." |
more images: from Peter Duffy of Skipton, North Yorkshire, UK
