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Re: (meteorobs) Aurora images online
Maria,
>I haven't seen any of the vivid colors everyone else is seeing.
I am nowhere near as experienced at aurora observing as I am at meteors
being a Florida boy, but I have seen one display from this latitude (29
degrees 56 minutes) back in 1982. It did NOT look anything even close to
all the pictures I had seen. In fact, I didn't even know what it was, at
first! It was only after hearing the news reports the next day that I was
convinced. There were no vivid colors and no "curtain" type pattern that
shows up so well in pictures. All I recall, it was a faint, pinkish,
ghost-like shimmering glow that seemed to "pulse and dance" through almost
the entire sky at once randomly. Lots of rapid motion was evident, I
recall, as if it was blowing past above my head, in a very high wind. There
was no real structure and no brightness associated with it. More like
something out of "Star Trek" really! Like I said, it kinda scared me at
first and the fact it was an aurora was the farthest thing from my mind
while I was watching it. Perhaps our more northern folks would like to
chime in on visual appearance of aurorae (if it is not too off-topic).
Since you are likely to see the one while you are looking for the other,
however, maybe it isn't OT??
Regards, Paul in N. Fla.
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