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Posted: 5/11/2024 12:42:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat red in the first picture is amazing! |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 12:44:24 AM EDT
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Checking in from east TN! Never thought I would ever see anything like this without traveling above the arctic circle. Starlink is what caught my attention. Tight string if ~20 sats that must have just recently been launched. Haven’t seen a string in 4 years. Reviewing the pics made me WTF then I remembered the X class flares thread. It continued to grow in magnitude until we could see bands/rays and color differentiation with the naked eye. Could see them move, pulse, and wave as if they were ribbons in front of your face. The scale is hard to comprehend. It’s no wonder the aurora is surrounded by myth and legend. It’s absolutely astonishing. These pics are 5 second exposures from an iPhone 14 off a tripod. Real life colors were not nearly as vibrant. Incredibly impressive and awe inspiring to the naked eye nonetheless. Cowboy camping with some friends, hoping it flares up again. Also have seen a half dozen or so meteors tonight.
      
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Posted: 5/11/2024 12:44:58 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2024 12:47:48 AM EDT
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Nothing visible in mid-AZ at 34 degrees north, even with night vision. I'm jealous of y'all!
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Posted: 5/11/2024 12:48:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryWhere the heck are you? Prescott area here and not seeing anything like that. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 12:53:37 AM EDT
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My 8 year old twins and I, and about 10-15 other people, were in a gravel parking lot across the street from a large lake, all looking at the aurora.
Every now and then a car would drive by. Usually not a big deal. Then some asshole in a big lifted diesel truck decided to roll coal on us as he drove by. What a dickhead. Totally ruined the experience.  A few minutes later, someone driving by managed to pop a tire or something, and parked on the side of the road to change it. They left their high beams on, pointed straight at everyone in the parking lot, totally ruining our night vision.    What is it with some people these days? My kids and I drove off to another small quiet neighborhood still under constructions. Mostly dark, just a few street lamps. Much better experience. Still looking through photos. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 12:56:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The alerts came straight from NOAA. They haven’t been wrong yet. That was from the the X5.89 earlier. The system reports on the maximum X-ray flux from the past 2 hours. As it tapers down, the max number gets smaller and smaller. Still part of the same event though.  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 12:59:13 AM EDT
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Just got this one. Was a little shake holing the camera for the 6 seconds night mode requires, so it's a tad grainy.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 1:00:56 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2024 1:03:41 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2024 1:04:45 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2024 1:06:12 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2024 1:35:36 AM EDT
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Triad area of NC. Excuse the power lines in the photos, they couldn't be avoided due to the layout of the parking lot where I was taking photos.
 Same with some of the houses (those houses are still under construction so I wasn't taking photos of random people's homes  ). All photos were taken with my iPhone 14 Pro, Night Mode, either handheld or braced against my car. Wish I had a DLSR, but this is better than nothing.                   All these photos with the houses were taken over a period of 2-3 minutes. The colors were changing so fast, it was incredible to watch through my phone's camera in realtime.        
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Posted: 5/11/2024 1:39:49 AM EDT
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Drove north of town 5 miles out into the wheat fields and just got back. Truly underwhelmed, barely visible with the naked eye and not much better through the PVS14. You guys have posted better pics than what we see with zero cloud cover here.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 1:45:58 AM EDT
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Walking home from the brewery, the sky just had this strawberry glow to it. I'm in Bortle 6/7 skies, so it was faint, but I could see it, even with the street lights.
I had to duck into the back yards to get a better view of it all. Brief as it was.  And this is what blew my mind. I'm in the lower half of Alabama, and I'm seeing auroras ... to the south ... 
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Posted: 5/11/2024 1:46:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Drove north of town 5 miles out into the wheat fields and just got back. Truly underwhelmed, barely visible with the naked eye and not much better through the PVS14. You guys have posted better pics than what we see with zero cloud cover here. Sorry to hear that.  Everything I just posted was almost invisible to the naked eye. I had to enable Night Mode on my phone and hold it up to the sky to find something good to point at, and grab a photo. Seriously, I couldn't see 98% of that with just my eyes. With just my eyes I could see a barely discernible glow. I'm sure in some more northern latitudes it might have been better.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 1:47:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Walking home from the brewery, the sky just had this strawberry glow to it. I'm in Bortle 6/7 skies, so it was faint, but I could see it, even with the street lights. I had to duck into the back yards to get a better view of it all. Brief as it was. https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-mWVn4GM/0/vk5K7vn68LKc3K3hJZkh8JzcP7jH2H25QT8n8VdJ/X2/i-mWVn4GM-X2.jpg And this is what blew my mind. I'm in the lower half of Alabama, and I'm seeing auroras ... to the south ... https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-DqZ5tJq/0/DbzhKqvNDwRhbzVDbPNdXTf3fXgZ2K8PRzK6dLD5x/X2/i-DqZ5tJq-X2.jpg Yeah I have a few photos pointing south, seeing a dull greenish-red glow. Just incredible. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 1:52:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yeah I have a few photos pointing south, seeing a dull greenish-red glow. Just incredible. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Walking home from the brewery, the sky just had this strawberry glow to it. I'm in Bortle 6/7 skies, so it was faint, but I could see it, even with the street lights. I had to duck into the back yards to get a better view of it all. Brief as it was. https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-mWVn4GM/0/vk5K7vn68LKc3K3hJZkh8JzcP7jH2H25QT8n8VdJ/X2/i-mWVn4GM-X2.jpg And this is what blew my mind. I'm in the lower half of Alabama, and I'm seeing auroras ... to the south ... https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-DqZ5tJq/0/DbzhKqvNDwRhbzVDbPNdXTf3fXgZ2K8PRzK6dLD5x/X2/i-DqZ5tJq-X2.jpg Yeah I have a few photos pointing south, seeing a dull greenish-red glow. Just incredible. I posted about that in the other thread. A witness to the Carrington Event described just that from the southern hemisphere: "The northern side from the zenith was also illuminated with beautiful colors, always curling round at the zenith, but were considered to be merely a reproduction of the southern display, as all colors south and north always corresponded." |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 1:56:38 AM EDT
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In North Dakota for a PRS match… crazy as most everything is waaaay to the south. But the towns light are fucking it all up.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 1:57:00 AM EDT
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Is this thing done for now? I've been outside freezing for an hour and saw nothing.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 1:59:36 AM EDT
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We got lucky and the space station flew right near the moon which had a nice rainbow of Aurora around it. Then a shooting star zipped right near the space station. Of course I missed that while trying to get a photo of the station ??. It's not in this shot but the station passed right near there.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:11:07 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:13:21 AM EDT
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I could see a little bit through my NV here in Kansas City.
Pretty sure it was more visible earlier and I missed the good part. Is it still going? |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:15:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I could see a little bit through my NV here in Kansas City. Pretty sure it was more visible earlier and I missed the good part. Is it still going? Yep, still going here in WI. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:29:28 AM EDT
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My first time ever seeing them. Unfucking real, the sky just exploded with light and color
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:31:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep, still going here in WI. I guess I’ll step back outside and look around again. Thanks! |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:31:15 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:33:35 AM EDT
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Fucking almost complete cloud cover right now is driving me up a wall...damn clouds need to leave RFN.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:39:25 AM EDT
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Seeing the northern lights so vividly to the south blew my mind.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:40:48 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:41:21 AM EDT
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NWFL. Was overcast here earlier. Nothing to see.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:42:24 AM EDT
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From the phone; had the DSLR out too but haven’t downloaded those yet. Pink hues were only marginally visible to the naked eye, but the greens started getting pretty animated a few times; really cool
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:48:38 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:51:22 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Drove north of town 5 miles out into the wheat fields and just got back. Truly underwhelmed, barely visible with the naked eye and not much better through the PVS14. You guys have posted better pics than what we see with zero cloud cover here. Could barely see anything with the naked eye here in N ID but the 10 second exposure on the camera did the trick.  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:52:25 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2024 2:55:47 AM EDT
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NW Oregon
Edit: Will repost. Photos had too much data on them. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 3:10:45 AM EDT
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3 second exposure night sight on my Pixel 8. Looked incredible to the naked eye too! Straight over my house.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 3:11:10 AM EDT
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Right behind my house.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 3:53:50 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2024 4:09:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Just got this one. Was a little shake holing the camera for the 6 seconds night mode requires, so it's a tad grainy. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/411079/1000014588_jpg-3211197.JPG It's a tad awesome. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 4:17:10 AM EDT
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I just woke up and went outside too look but its overcast then I looked at my phone and seen a couple of texts from my oldest daughter. She had sent me two pics she took.
She is a few miles from me, east of Lafayette Louisiana and a bit north of I10 at 10:44 pm Friday evening. Right at 30 degrees north latitude.    |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 5:42:49 AM EDT
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Posted: 5/11/2024 5:44:23 AM EDT
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What are the odss of a repeat tonight? I know there was another X class yesterday afternoon.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 5:44:38 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Where the heck are you? Prescott area here and not seeing anything like that. @seek2 I’m currently near the south rim by Tusayan. I used no magic filters or editing, this is simply what the iPhone camera picked up. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 5:51:34 AM EDT
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I wonder how far South that sightings have been reported ?
Amazing stuff and very rare to see them in the South. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 6:08:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You guys suck so bad!!! We're socked in w/clouds and rain all fucking weekend in south central PA!!! We were cloudy on and off last night so I went to bed. Lots of locals got pretty good pics. Seems their phones showed it better than the naked eye. |
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Posted: 5/11/2024 7:01:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/203945/signal-2024-05-10-231319_002_jpeg-3211173.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/203945/signal-2024-05-10-225712_002_jpeg-3211176.JPG We also had a bonus flyover of the ISS through the middle of the show. What an awesome night. My wife and I had been watching at my parents place and got decent photos, but on the way home she was watching stuff the side and was saying how cool it was so we pulled over to watch. We went from just seeing a haze with light bands, to full on color visible to the naked eye, and pulsing and flashing ripples. I swear, looking into this one I felt like a spaceship could come popping out of warp at any second. Phone wasn't able to grab a video due to low light, but it was amazing to see.  
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Posted: 5/11/2024 7:05:38 AM EDT
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I can see a halo on the x5. ENLIL hasn't updated, but I bet it will be a hit.
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Posted: 5/11/2024 7:07:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sorry to hear that. Everything I just posted was almost invisible to the naked eye. I had to enable Night Mode on my phone and hold it up to the sky to find something good to point at, and grab a photo. Seriously, I couldn't see 98% of that with just my eyes. With just my eyes I could see a barely discernible glow. I'm sure in some more northern latitudes it might have been better.This was my experience as well. Took my dogs out at 1am. Lots of clouds but thought what the hell, let's let the camera see what it sees:  Attached File Attached File |
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