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Post by whitetaildave24 on Oct 10, 2024 19:39:09 GMT -5
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Post by deadeer on Oct 10, 2024 20:24:12 GMT -5
"Dark" in South Bend like usual. Lol
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Post by stevein on Oct 10, 2024 21:51:42 GMT -5
Awesome show in Northwest Allen Co. Going on now 10:50 pm.
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Post by genesis273 on Oct 10, 2024 22:01:54 GMT -5
Pretty amazing from from my brother's house in Lake County.  |
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Oct 10, 2024 22:03:30 GMT -5
Couple more I took just a bit ago.   |
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Post by stevein on Oct 10, 2024 22:05:21 GMT -5
Awesome show going on in NW ALLEN CO.
11:00
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Post by astronankin on Oct 11, 2024 7:48:17 GMT -5
I checked around sunset and there was a super faint pink band above the house that was just barely visible in a phone camera. 20 minutes later the sky was glowing.... Mostly a faint haze other than the green glow until about 8:30 then green bands began drifting across the sky. We went up to a local cemetery and viewed from there - it was really pretty. We saw a few faint pillars and 2 meteors that went right through the aurora. Got home about 9:45 and spent a few minutes inside. Everyone else was going to bed while I headed outside with a chair... Walked out and actually yelled for everyone to get out here and almost dropped the chair when the show got super good with very vivid pink and large pillars - a show that surpassed the May storm in this area with that. I didn't get a picture but saw a narrow and fast-moving blueish band that matched descriptions of STEVE - a transient aerial phenomenon that is similar to an aurora but occurs at mid-latitudes. The main show lasted nearly 40 minutes and then the aurora quieted down. I went to bed a little after midnight.
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Post by astronankin on Oct 11, 2024 8:33:29 GMT -5
These were at peak - my brother ended up bringing his nice camera out as well and snapped the whole time. Facing northwest:  Facing west at peak:  Facing northeast when I walked outside and it exploded in front of me - The colors and pillars really were almost this intense with the naked eye. At one point there was some slight yellow even detected in the phone camera.  Pillars and also 1 green ball were visible. About 10:20 underneath the pink dome in the northeast I saw a narrow blue line quickly go through - Pretty sure this was STEVE, a rare transient aerial phenomenon that is similar to the aurora but usually occurs at mid-latitudes. |
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Post by astronankin on Oct 11, 2024 8:47:49 GMT -5
Moonset around midnight, long after the aurora had quieted down.  North before the peak - around 9:25 pm. The bands were easy to see, the pillars were just a slight brightening in the aurora.  This gravestone made for a photo opportunity with the red band in the south. Before the peak.  The pink band that stayed there the entire time. In the south.  |
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Post by astronankin on Oct 11, 2024 8:49:37 GMT -5
If anyone is wondering what caused this there is a giant sunspot on the sun that threw out a large and very fast-moving plume of gas a few days ago. Many people knew this was coming and it would be good. We just didn't quite know how good.
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Post by esshup on Oct 11, 2024 11:12:55 GMT -5
About 45 minutes before sunrise the past few days the sky has been very red. I don't know what that is attributed to. It fades away about 20-30 minutes before sunrise.
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Post by marshallco on Oct 11, 2024 14:14:53 GMT -5
After I saw this post last night about 11:00, I loaded up my daughter who was still up doing homework and drove a mile down the road to get a clear view of the norther sky. Nuthin.
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Post by esshup on Oct 11, 2024 15:28:37 GMT -5
After I saw this post last night about 11:00, I loaded up my daughter who was still up doing homework and drove a mile down the road to get a clear view of the norther sky. Nuthin. My old college roommate who lives in a suburb of Chicago sent me some pictures he took. I ran outside right away and didn't see anything either. |
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Post by Woody Williams on Oct 11, 2024 15:36:12 GMT -5
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on Oct 11, 2024 16:07:29 GMT -5
I spent two years up near Banger, Maine. No big deal for me.
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Post by astronankin on Oct 12, 2024 7:52:00 GMT -5
Nothing last night. The intensity level had dropped throughout the day to the point where the aurora wasn't visible here and I don't think it got stronger than a Kp index of 5. At that intensity we'd have a super hard time trying to see it here with a camera and a very flat horizon....
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