Everyone's #aurora pictures are lovely. Lots of rich purples which strikes me as odd coz I usually think of it as green. Was green when I saw it off in Iceland.
I'm told this is because in more severe space weather, when the solar wind is strong, it has the energy to knock electrons off of lower-altitude Nitrogen as well as the more common green high-altitude Oxygen.
I have no pictures. In London the orange street-lamp aurora is there every night and drowns anything else out.
Adam Dalliance /
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2024-05-11 13:10:13
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