Was able to catch my first northern lights in years – didn’t make it out to anywhere spectacular, but managed to get out of the light dome of Boise, Idaho. The night provided a decent geomagnetic storm, up to a KP of 6. I took my Canon 5d Mk IV and a 14mm lens with tripod, shot at ISO 3200 and 25 seconds each.
On October 9th, the sun released a minor flare that produced a cloud of gas and plasma our direction. In the image below you can see the faint cloud expanding out around the sun, called a Coronal Mas Ejection (CME). I’m not a scientist or professional, so my explanations aren’t the best, and could even be a little mistaken.
Over the next few days, the cloud traveled the distance between us and the sun, and gave us a fair impact that played with Earth’s magnetic fields, producing the small show of northern lights that was seen on October 12th.
A few websites I follow are below:
www.spaceweather.com
www.spaceweatherlive.com
http://www.swpc.noaa. gov
