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Heads up, sky photographers: Northern Lights starting today, 30 March 2022

AlaskaMoose said:
UTC time is shown in this website, and also in the NOAA website (the sub-link that shows a picture of the globe). There is a possibility of kp9 Auroras displays by April:

Aurora Forecast | Geophysical Institute

Forecasts of auroral activity, updated daily.
www.gi.alaska.edu www.gi.alaska.edu
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Sadly it needs to be a few hundred miles south for me. But they have been coming down as far as Scotland of late, so @kenoh will be fine.
 
Apple fanboy said:
Sadly it needs to be a few hundred miles south for me. But they have been coming down as far as Scotland of late, so @kenoh will be fine.
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Plan for a long vacation up North next winter :)
~Just kidding with you. Now, I remember one time seeing a beautiful Auroral display when at a military runway in Northern NY back in the early '80s.
 
AlaskaMoose said:
UTC time is shown in this website, and also in the NOAA website (the sub-link that shows a picture of the globe). There is a possibility of kp9 Auroras displays by April:

Aurora Forecast | Geophysical Institute

Forecasts of auroral activity, updated daily.
www.gi.alaska.edu www.gi.alaska.edu
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Great. Should also be visible from Germany. And with perfect timing, we have solid cloud cover with rain and snow since yesterday... :(
 
Apple fanboy said:
Long vacation? I had 4 days away once in the last 10 years.
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No breaks, eh?

The sky was clear, and while it wasn't very cold at 16-degree F., it was very windy. I waited for the Auroras to show from 10:00 PM last night to 2:00 AM this morning, but they weren't bright enough for me to photograph. My wife told me that they were very bright around 3:30 this morning :)
 
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I managed to take photos of the Auroras last night starting about midnight and ending at 1:00 AM this morning. However, the lights were not as bright as usual and I had to increase the ISO to 1200 @ 4-second exposures. I could see the bright stars twinkling in the sky that were brighter than the Auroras :) The Auroras are active again tonight, but a cloud cover moved into the interior of Alaska earlier this evening. Hopefully some of you were able to take some photos.
 
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AlaskaMoose said:
I managed to take photos of the Auroras last night starting about midnight and ending at 1:00 AM this morning. However, the lights were not as bright as usual and I had to increase the ISO to 1200 @ 4-second exposures. I could see the bright stars twinkling in the sky that were brighter than the Auroras :) The Auroras are active again tonight, but a cloud cover moved into the interior of Alaska earlier this evening. Hopefully some of you were able to take some photos.
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Cloud cover and too far south here. Looking forward to seeing the results.
 
Someone on IG posted they would be over the Bay Area (SF California) on Wednesday and I fell for it hook, line and sinker just to find out it was an April fools day joke. Seriously, I was planning the day off lol. :mad:
 
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ericgtr12 said:
Someone on IG posted they would be over the Bay Area (SF California) on Wednesday and I fell for it hook, line and sinker just to find out it was an April fools day joke. Seriously, I was planning the day off lol. :mad:
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I posted one at the Photo Of The Day Forum. Was afraid to get busted by the forums police :)
ericgtr12 said:
Someone on IG posted they would be over the Bay Area (SF California) on Wednesday and I fell for it hook, line and sinker just to find out it was an April fools day joke. Seriously, I was planning the day off lol. :mad:
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That's quite funny ?
 
Another heads-up:

Aurora Forecast | Geophysical Institute

Forecasts of auroral activity, updated daily.
www.gi.alaska.edu www.gi.alaska.edu

The Aurora forecast for tonight is a kp-4, and then kp6 for tomorrow. But it looks that a loud-cover is moving into the interior of Alaska. Remember that UTC (Universal time) is used, and this can make a big difference in your individual time zone. For example, 01.00 hours (1:00 AM UTC), it equals 16:00 hour in Alaska, or 4:00 PM (Alaska time zone is from 8-9 hours behind). You can notice the difference at the website above (right corner near the top of the page where both UTC and AK time are shown).
 
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