My phone was bombarded all afternoon and evening with alerts from Spaceweather.com about Coronal Mass Ejections on the sun coming towards earth. This went on from midafternoon to late this evening. I finally decided that I should head out to try to see if the Aurora Borealis was visible...
All of the shots were taken using my Canon R body with a 17-35 mm lens set to 17 mm at f2.8, with 10 - 12 second exposure times.
The three shots were taken at 117, 124, and 128 am the morning of April 24, 2023.
Good shots of this rarely seen phenomenon in Colorado. I remember when I was 10 years old in 1960, we were driving from Grand Junction to Glenwood Springs late one night and I looked out the window and saw them. My dad stopped the car and we got out and guessed it might have been a forest fire in the distance, but turns out it was these.
SonnyE
Loc: Communist California, USA
Cool catch!
Glad you decided to go have a look.
James, those are some splendid images of the aurora borealis. Well done.
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