Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

Re:Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora by codetrotter on Friday May 10, 2024 @08:05PM (#40324920)

A couple of years ago in the middle of Norway (not south, not north, in-between) me and a friend saw in the news that there would be aurora borealis, which is not common in that part of Norway.

We were outside at like 2AM in the night that day trying to spot it but could see any hint of it for the life of us.

Finally we used his phone and long exposure to see what it would pick up and on the captured photo we saw shades of green like aurora borealis.

Quite fascinating, it was.

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Re:Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora by Filligree on Friday May 10, 2024 @08:24PM (#40325027)

For what it's worth... growing up in Tromsø, we have auroras a few dozen times per winter usually.

They were always strong enough to be easily seen, often quite dramatic. It really does look like that if you're far enough north.

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Re:Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora by codetrotter on Friday May 10, 2024 @08:39PM (#40325104)

For sure. As mentioned though we were in the middle of Norway, not north.

Well, actually the proper term for where we were at is East Norway. And I guess by official standards the middle of Norway is further north than where I consider the middle of Norway to be.

To be very specific, we were in Gjøvik.

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Re:Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora by erikbye on Saturday May 11, 2024 @02:08AM (#40326332)

Here's a few crappy phone pics from near Oslo on a night (evening, around 19 I think) it was very visible with the naked eye. 0.5 seconds exposure.

https://www.flickr.com/search/?sort=date-taken-desc&safe_sea...

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Re:Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora by codetrotter on Saturday May 11, 2024 @02:55AM (#40326493)

That’s awesome! Wish I get to see it that visible too.

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Re:Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora by dotancohen on Saturday May 11, 2024 @01:25PM (#40329446)

I was lucky enough to be in Tromsø in February 2013 during the last solar cycle maximum. It was absolutely amazing, even a local who we happened upon near one of the fjords while he was cross country skiing - in the middle of the night - said that he had never seen such aurora. They were gold and purple along with the more common greens and reds that we had seen all week.

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