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Summary: On Christmas Eve, 2001, Earth entered a solar wind stream flowing from a coronal hole on the Sun. The sudden increase in solar wind speed triggered Northern Lights across the northern tier of US states. |
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Andre Clay,
North
Pole, Alaska, USA
Dec. 24 |
#1, #2, #3, #4 | A. Clay: "The aurora was filling the whole sky and was very beautiful. The temperature was about -20 F." Photo details: Camera DSC-F707, 15S exposure, 200ISO. |
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Lyndon Anderson,
15
miles north of Bismarck, North Dakota, USA, Dec. 24 |
#1, #2, #3, #4, more | L. Anderson: "My Christmas present arrived early - an unexpected display of the northern lights! - I used both a Pentax 50 mm lens with 1.4 aperature and a Pentax 28 mm lens with a 2.8 aperature. Also Fuji Superia 800 film. Exposures were about 15 seconds for the 50 mm lens and 35 seconds for the 28 mm lens." |
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Vance Petriew,
Regina,
Saskatchewan, CANADA Dec. 24 |
#1, #2, #3, #4 | V. Petriew: "It was a spectacular full sky aurora with curtains directly overhead and some as far south as Sirius. The temperature was -21 degrees Celsius and -29 degrees Celsius with the wind-chill! I used a 28 mm Nikon lens at F2.5 with Fuji ASA 100 film (that's all I had :o). Three images are 24 seconds and the other one is 16 seconds." |
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