This is the sky-filling aurora of February 10, 2024, over the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. This was a Kp4-level
This is the sky-filling aurora of February 10, 2024, over the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. This was a Kp4-level display, though that was an unexpected level of activity this night. Predictions had been calling for only Kp1 or 2 at best. The aurora was bright enough to light the snow green. A surprise coronal mass ejection impacted Earth this night and raised the auroral activity up a couple of notches on the Kp scale, resulting in a more extensive sky-filling display with more active motion and multiple curtains and bands, with a good range of colours. Here three curtains converge into the west. This is looking west, with the Orion setting at far left. This is a single 15-second exposure with the TTArtisan 11mm full-frame fish-eye lens at and Canon R6 at ISO 1600.
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