Last night (May 31) as I was driving home (around 11 p.m.), I noticed the telltale "haze" of the northern lights, low in the sky. When I got home, I rushed to set up my camera (as the forecast was calling for clouds overnight). I "auto-snapped" a few hundred 10-second exposures and captured a beautiful display of the aurora. This event was the result of a stream of solar wind from the Sun, caused by a coronal hole in the Sun's upper atmosphere.
Below, is an image of the coronal hole on May 29, taken by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft...
The view from my backyard Friday night:..
A short time-lapse video taken by the all-sky camera, mounted on my roof:...
Time-lapse video, created from 174 individual images (Canon Rebel DSLR)....
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