Aurora active now!!

[Sam Knox]

The Aurora Borealis is pretty active at the moment. Go outside, look north. It will look “cloudy” but even short exposures on your phone will reveal much more. Happy hunting!!

Sam

[Joseph Andrew Naylor Jones]

Right now 😁

On Tue, Nov 11, 2025, 6:03 PM Sam Knox <max...@gmail.com> wrote:

The Aurora Borealis is pretty active at the moment. Go outside, look north. It will look “cloudy” but even short exposures on your phone will reveal much more. Happy hunting!!

Sam

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[Dawson]

OMG!, that is magnificent!  I'm sitting in the Spokane Airport on my way to Florida to see my dad.  So I won't be able to see it.  

Bummer! 

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[Sam Knox]

Great pictures, Joseph! I got a couple but the clouds have moved in already.

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[Dawson]

Way cool Sam! 

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[Steve Potter]

Here's what I captured between my phone and the DSLR, it was an amazing storm due to a double hit of two CME's I saw the kp of 8.8 and BZ NT of -50, i'm not entirely positive but I think that was stronger than the May storm, there is another CME that should hit earth today so hope that the cloud cover dissipates so that we can have another show tonight! 

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[Daniel Sumerfield]

This is an interesting optical artifact:

 

 

https://capturenorth.com/blogs/articles/beware-newtons-rings

- “Specifically, they show up when one glass surface is curved differently than another, which is exactly the case between a UV filter and the front curved element of a lens.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_rings

 

I hope this is NOT  taken as a criticism of your astrophotography skills (which are infinitely greater than my own, by the way), it’s certainly not intended that way 😊…more like an “Isn’t physics weird and cool?!” Also, the fact that this phenomon was first investigated by both Newton and Hooke in the 1600’s is a bit mind-boggling.

 

Daniel

 

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[Zach Schierl]

Great photos everyone! Attached is a short time lapse I made before the clouds roll in.

While shorter lived, I thought that the colors visible at the outset of this storm were more vibrant than last May. I've also attached screenshots showing the max Kp index for the two storms. We did briefly hit Kp 9 last May.

Looks like odds are good for another showing tonight...clouds will be the issue. 

Zach

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[Dean Wierman]

It was really cool, even with the clouds how the colors interacted with them.

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[Steve Potter]

I noticed this as well, these shots were taken with my pixel phone since the best camera is the one that you have with you at the moment 😊. 99% sure it’s because I added a lens protector to the phone’s camera after my last phone camera suffered a catastrophic failure. I haven't noticed them before during day photography at all, thanks for the links it's pretty interesting to read about and totally makes sense, here's a short time lapse that I did with the same phone while I was playing with the DSLR and they are quite prominent. But the green flash in this was amazing! So many angry oxygen molecules!