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I feel I need to report my experience from Denmark, Jutland. It started with white broad streaks, which most of all looked like fog, but then perhaps after 10

I feel I need to report my experience from Denmark, Jutland. It started with white broad streaks, which most of all looked like fog, but then perhaps after 10 minutes or so, we saw colors of red, purple and green begin to emerge from the these streaks. Most astoundingly it all seemed to emanate from a fluctuating point in the middle of the sky. If you looked closely at this point you could see it fall into itself, morphing and shifting continuously. We went around the house and we could purple streaks at the top and orange to red patches at the bottom of the sky. Colors observed: Whitish blue, Green, Purple, Red, and Orange An absolutely a beautiful experience.

niutech 2y ago
Can you share a photo?
- grafelic 2y ago
  I took one semi successful photo using my crappy beat-down a20e Samsung phone. It doesn't do what we saw justice at all. https://imgur.com/5mlD22W https://imgur.com/5mlD22W
  - grafelic 2y ago
    Here are some quality photos from Denmark: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/vejret/saa-vildt-ser-det-ud-se-nattens-nordlys-her https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/vejret/saa-vildt-ser-det-ud-se-nat...
    - bavell 2y ago
      Incredible!
  - frfl 2y ago
    grafelic's image looks totally black on my crappy laptop monitor unless I turn brightness up to 100%, even then it's barely noticeable. Here's a color enhanced version of grafelic's photo that shows the color bands more easily, https://i.imgur.com/IS8JWD8.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/IS8JWD8.jpeg Added some blur after color adjustments to remove pixelation artifacts.
    - bozhark 2y ago
      I’m b mobile, it’s still black with a lil highlight. Near, but definitely not retrospective
  - gareth_untether 2y ago
    When I took photos of the northern lights on my Sony RX1 the colours became much stronger. I assumed all digital cameras captured the colours better than our eyes.
    - dylan604 2y ago
      Yes, an electronic sensor is much more sensitive than our eyes. However, even within digital sensors, some are more sensitive than others. Add that sensitivity with the ability to do long exposure, and you can capture things we will never see with our naked eyes. Even with binoculars or telescopes, our eyes will just seem more photons, but pretty much without the color. That's where the digital sensors really "shine"
      - erikbye 2y ago
        Our eyes definitely do not see "pretty much without the color". Born and raised in Norway I've watched more aurora borealis than I care to count. On many occassions you could see all kinds of colors and dancing lights with the naked eye, very strong and vivid, too. Important to be in a dark environment without light pollution. At the arctic circle during polar night you will see northern lights that almost match the most stunning photos you have seen.
- joshvm 2y ago
  Currently pretty good at the South Pole. The pink skies are wild. Green auroras are fairlty common over the winter, but it's unusual for it to be this red. If you're interested in a real time video, here's one I captured a few weeks ago from our "back yard" (excuse the Instagram link) https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6T27pEO7dQ/?igsh=eXJyOGtuY2l5Y2pt https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6T27pEO7dQ/?igsh=eXJyOGtuY2l...
  - joshvm 2y ago
    Here are some additional photos from the current storm - https://www.instagram.com/p/C60Y-gIu4Ob/?igsh=N3AwaGZzODN3eDJ1 https://www.instagram.com/p/C60Y-gIu4Ob/?igsh=N3AwaGZzODN3eD... Sadly we have pretty high winds at the moment and visibility is poor due to all the blowing snow, but if you're high up (eg an observation deck), it's a bit clearer.
  - cinntaile 2y ago
    Unrelated but why are you at the South Pole?
    - taneq 2y ago
      Why aren’t you?! :P
    - ta1243 2y ago
      All the cool people are there
      - GTP 2y ago
        Cool as in cold? :D
    - joshvm 2y ago
      I'm wintering for the South Pole Telescope. https://pole.uchicago.edu/ https://pole.uchicago.edu/
  - robk 2y ago
    Amazing thanks for sharing
sebastianconcpt 2y ago
Thank you for sharing that. I wonder at what speed the morphing happen, also a sense of proportion. Very hard to capture that in anything but direct experience.
- nine_k 2y ago
  Per Wikipedia, most auroras are 300 to 600 km wide, and occur at 90 to 150 km above surface. It' below LEO (300 km), but it's considered outer space already. You actually see a thing the size of a mountain range shining and morphing above you in space.
- playingalong 2y ago
  Not sure here in proper continental Europe, but the usual sightings in the Arctic Circle are typically very short. Like it shows up for a minute or even not so. Then you wait an hour and another sighting for tens of seconds. Obviously sometimes it lasts for hours, but this is nothing frequent (in given location).
  - sllabres 2y ago
    I am looking at the foto webcam images too and haven't seen the aurora myself, but the photos show a much longer timespan: For Wildhaus the first image with a pink/greenish glow is at 22:22 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/10/2220 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/10/2220 and this continues through the entire night https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/10/2230 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/10/2230 till shortly before sunset, where the exposure time probably shortens too much to capture the color of the the aurora https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/11/0420 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/11/0420 Other locations: https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/ewa/2024/05/11/0330 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/ewa/2024/05/11/0330 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/glecksteinhuette/2024/05/11/0400 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/glecksteinhuette/2024/05/1... https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/hochleckenhaus/2024/05/11/0100 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/hochleckenhaus/2024/05/11/...
- kzrdude 2y ago
lwansbrough 2y ago
Someone shared something similar on Twitter: https://x.com/packyM/status/1789113052723314918 https://x.com/packyM/status/1789113052723314918
- beretguy 2y ago
  Can somebody link not to Twitter, please?
  - throwaway65846 2y ago
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    - beretguy 2y ago
      Just Twitter ones.
- mk89 2y ago
  Wow that's magnificent.
madaxe_again 2y ago
I’m a few thousand kilometres south of you in Portugal - here, we got the side view of what was above you, and it was spectacular - pink sky underlit by blue and green filled with vast columns. It really gave me the sense of being a tiny thing on a virtually naked sphere hurtling through the void - seeing such titanic structures really puts things into scale.
irthomasthomas 2y ago
I was out flying a camera drone on the river Dee between Liverpool and North Wales filming the sunset, when I started getting magnetic interference warnings. At the same time, I started to see flashes in the sky. Then my vision was filled with sparkling lights. A few minutes later I got an aurora warning from my brother and the aurora app. KP 8-9 As the sun went down I was waking through a woodland. I thought the dark would help my eyes to see the aurora, and I could point my camera away from the light pollution of Liverpool and maybe catch some colour with a long exposure. Suddenly, I realised the colour of the aurora was coming through the trees, and getting brighter. I wasn't expecting it to be visible to naked eye like this. In these latitudes the advice is to set your camera to highest iso and slowest shutter speed and hope to catch a little colour. I wasn't expecting this! So I packed up quick and ran through the woods and into open fields. There, directly above me was this intense white light, with white arms forming a sort-of cross. The longest arm formed an arch over the whole sky, and where they reached the earth, on either side they became colourful, like a twinkling rainbow stretching out to space. I didn't have the equipment or the wits to get a good photo. I just threw myself on the ground and lay on my back watching. Wildest thing I ever saw. Absolutely awesome. When I regain my composure, I will upload some photos somewhere (where, though?) and edit this comment.
- 3np 2y ago
  > and edit this comment. You have like 30min to edit and there's a timeout for replies too so maybe put the link in your profile if it gets later <3
- hammyhavoc 2y ago
  Hello from the Wirral!
- fransje26 2y ago
  Which app have you been using for the aurora warning?
  - jfk13 2y ago
    Not who you were replying to, but I've had the AuroraWatch UK app installed for a while now (and yes, we enjoyed last night's display, after being alerted by the app).
b33j0r 2y ago
Poetry comes to us when we can’t say exactly how it made us feel. As a son of Jurgen, I appreciated your account.
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niutech 2y ago

Can you share a photo?

grafelic 2y ago
I took one semi successful photo using my crappy beat-down a20e Samsung phone. It doesn't do what we saw justice at all. https://imgur.com/5mlD22W https://imgur.com/5mlD22W
- grafelic 2y ago
  Here are some quality photos from Denmark: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/vejret/saa-vildt-ser-det-ud-se-nattens-nordlys-her https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/vejret/saa-vildt-ser-det-ud-se-nat...
  - bavell 2y ago
    Incredible!
- frfl 2y ago
  grafelic's image looks totally black on my crappy laptop monitor unless I turn brightness up to 100%, even then it's barely noticeable. Here's a color enhanced version of grafelic's photo that shows the color bands more easily, https://i.imgur.com/IS8JWD8.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/IS8JWD8.jpeg Added some blur after color adjustments to remove pixelation artifacts.
  - bozhark 2y ago
    I’m b mobile, it’s still black with a lil highlight. Near, but definitely not retrospective
- gareth_untether 2y ago
  When I took photos of the northern lights on my Sony RX1 the colours became much stronger. I assumed all digital cameras captured the colours better than our eyes.
  - dylan604 2y ago
    Yes, an electronic sensor is much more sensitive than our eyes. However, even within digital sensors, some are more sensitive than others. Add that sensitivity with the ability to do long exposure, and you can capture things we will never see with our naked eyes. Even with binoculars or telescopes, our eyes will just seem more photons, but pretty much without the color. That's where the digital sensors really "shine"
    - erikbye 2y ago
      Our eyes definitely do not see "pretty much without the color". Born and raised in Norway I've watched more aurora borealis than I care to count. On many occassions you could see all kinds of colors and dancing lights with the naked eye, very strong and vivid, too. Important to be in a dark environment without light pollution. At the arctic circle during polar night you will see northern lights that almost match the most stunning photos you have seen.
joshvm 2y ago
Currently pretty good at the South Pole. The pink skies are wild. Green auroras are fairlty common over the winter, but it's unusual for it to be this red. If you're interested in a real time video, here's one I captured a few weeks ago from our "back yard" (excuse the Instagram link) https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6T27pEO7dQ/?igsh=eXJyOGtuY2l5Y2pt https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6T27pEO7dQ/?igsh=eXJyOGtuY2l...
- joshvm 2y ago
  Here are some additional photos from the current storm - https://www.instagram.com/p/C60Y-gIu4Ob/?igsh=N3AwaGZzODN3eDJ1 https://www.instagram.com/p/C60Y-gIu4Ob/?igsh=N3AwaGZzODN3eD... Sadly we have pretty high winds at the moment and visibility is poor due to all the blowing snow, but if you're high up (eg an observation deck), it's a bit clearer.
- cinntaile 2y ago
  Unrelated but why are you at the South Pole?
  - taneq 2y ago
    Why aren’t you?! :P
  - ta1243 2y ago
    All the cool people are there
    - GTP 2y ago
      Cool as in cold? :D
  - joshvm 2y ago
    I'm wintering for the South Pole Telescope. https://pole.uchicago.edu/ https://pole.uchicago.edu/
- robk 2y ago
  Amazing thanks for sharing

sebastianconcpt 2y ago

Thank you for sharing that. I wonder at what speed the morphing happen, also a sense of proportion. Very hard to capture that in anything but direct experience.

nine_k 2y ago
Per Wikipedia, most auroras are 300 to 600 km wide, and occur at 90 to 150 km above surface. It' below LEO (300 km), but it's considered outer space already. You actually see a thing the size of a mountain range shining and morphing above you in space.
playingalong 2y ago
Not sure here in proper continental Europe, but the usual sightings in the Arctic Circle are typically very short. Like it shows up for a minute or even not so. Then you wait an hour and another sighting for tens of seconds. Obviously sometimes it lasts for hours, but this is nothing frequent (in given location).
- sllabres 2y ago
  I am looking at the foto webcam images too and haven't seen the aurora myself, but the photos show a much longer timespan: For Wildhaus the first image with a pink/greenish glow is at 22:22 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/10/2220 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/10/2220 and this continues through the entire night https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/10/2230 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/10/2230 till shortly before sunset, where the exposure time probably shortens too much to capture the color of the the aurora https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/11/0420 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/wildhaus/2024/05/11/0420 Other locations: https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/ewa/2024/05/11/0330 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/ewa/2024/05/11/0330 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/glecksteinhuette/2024/05/11/0400 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/glecksteinhuette/2024/05/1... https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/hochleckenhaus/2024/05/11/0100 https://www.foto-webcam.eu/webcam/hochleckenhaus/2024/05/11/...
kzrdude 2y ago

lwansbrough 2y ago

Someone shared something similar on Twitter: https://x.com/packyM/status/1789113052723314918 https://x.com/packyM/status/1789113052723314918

beretguy 2y ago
Can somebody link not to Twitter, please?
- throwaway65846 2y ago
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  - beretguy 2y ago
    Just Twitter ones.
mk89 2y ago
Wow that's magnificent.

madaxe_again 2y ago

I’m a few thousand kilometres south of you in Portugal - here, we got the side view of what was above you, and it was spectacular - pink sky underlit by blue and green filled with vast columns. It really gave me the sense of being a tiny thing on a virtually naked sphere hurtling through the void - seeing such titanic structures really puts things into scale.

irthomasthomas 2y ago

I was out flying a camera drone on the river Dee between Liverpool and North Wales filming the sunset, when I started getting magnetic interference warnings. At the same time, I started to see flashes in the sky. Then my vision was filled with sparkling lights. A few minutes later I got an aurora warning from my brother and the aurora app. KP 8-9 As the sun went down I was waking through a woodland. I thought the dark would help my eyes to see the aurora, and I could point my camera away from the light pollution of Liverpool and maybe catch some colour with a long exposure. Suddenly, I realised the colour of the aurora was coming through the trees, and getting brighter. I wasn't expecting it to be visible to naked eye like this. In these latitudes the advice is to set your camera to highest iso and slowest shutter speed and hope to catch a little colour. I wasn't expecting this! So I packed up quick and ran through the woods and into open fields. There, directly above me was this intense white light, with white arms forming a sort-of cross. The longest arm formed an arch over the whole sky, and where they reached the earth, on either side they became colourful, like a twinkling rainbow stretching out to space. I didn't have the equipment or the wits to get a good photo. I just threw myself on the ground and lay on my back watching. Wildest thing I ever saw. Absolutely awesome. When I regain my composure, I will upload some photos somewhere (where, though?) and edit this comment.

3np 2y ago
> and edit this comment. You have like 30min to edit and there's a timeout for replies too so maybe put the link in your profile if it gets later <3
hammyhavoc 2y ago
Hello from the Wirral!
fransje26 2y ago
Which app have you been using for the aurora warning?
- jfk13 2y ago
  Not who you were replying to, but I've had the AuroraWatch UK app installed for a while now (and yes, we enjoyed last night's display, after being alerted by the app).

b33j0r 2y ago

Poetry comes to us when we can’t say exactly how it made us feel. As a son of Jurgen, I appreciated your account.

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