Northern Lights - Aurora Borealis near Houghton Michigan September 8-9 2015
Northern Lights - Aurora Borealis near Houghton Michigan September 8-9 2015
Northern Lights - Aurora Borealis near Houghton Michigan September 11 2015, 1230 am EDT: an opening in the cloud cover allowed a few shots; The storm is from a positive polarity, equatorial coronal hole high speed stream (CH HSS)
Northern Lights - Aurora Borealis near Houghton Michigan Oct 7, 2015, 1am EDT: an opening in the cloud cover allowed a few shots, so you can see some aurora in partly cloudy skies
Aurora Borealis Houghton Michigan the night of Aug 26-27 2015 Time Lapse Video 10PM to 130 AM EDT; with a near full moon and fog was a problem to keep wiping the lens. The Aurora was way beyond my lens across the sky and overhead.
One clue to see there is going to be an Aurora storm is that green band across the northern sky at the beginning (9:53 pm).
Aurora Borealis Houghton Michigan the night of Aug 26-27 2015 10PM to 130 AM EDT; with a near full moon and fog was a problem to keep wiping the lens.
Maybe somebody got even better pictures with a fish-eye lens high speed camera
The Aug 26-27 2015 Aurora was also way overhead, this looking straight up
View Video March 17, 2015 Aurora Borealis Upper Michigan USA (time lapse of pictures into a video of 6 frames per sec.): We had a St. Patrick's Day storm afterall at Houghton Michigan, only this year, March 17, 2015, it was a geomagnetic storm. The Aurora Borealis was slightly visible right after sunset and very active G4 storm at 9:00 -11:00pm EST, Batteries ran out, and there was a break, with recharged batteries I saw the aurora was active again from 12:00 to 1:00 am EST March 18, 2015. View the Aurora Borealis Upper Michigan as 2 frames per second (slower)
I was out on the ice on the lake and it was very slippery. Another phenomenon that shook me up was the ice made a loud "kaboom" every once in a while when it was cracking, probably jolted the camera also.
We had a St. Patrick's Day storm afterall at Houghton Michigan, only this year, March 17, 2015, it was a geomagnetic storm. The Aurora Borealis was slightly visible right after sunset and very active G4 storm at 9:00 -11:00pm EST. The storm was caused by a Coronal Mass Ejection or "CME" that exploded off the sun, for several hours the storm was rated a G4-Class storm with a KP of 8.
Website Gallery to show you can get Aurora Borealis pictures and time lapse in Houghton Michigan and Keweenaw area of the Upper Peninsula
Shots
from Alaska - Photographed and Contributed by Jan
Curtis; One of the first Aurora photgrahers on the web; See Curtis' Page 9. Green snow and majestic aurora!
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Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere: Information
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Informative reading
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(University of Alaska Press, 1992; ISBN 0-912006-60-9).
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