Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

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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