I NEVER thought I'd see this
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- The aurora (northern lights) reached as far south as Texas last night-maybe calling them 'northern lights' is a bit of a stretch.
In the midst of a G5-level solar storm, where hundreds of gigajoules of magnetic energy was bombarding our atmosphere, people around the world witnessed a beautiful display of light and color.
I was lucky enough to have clear skies in St. Louis, MO, so here's a video with some of the footage I took.
There's a chance the aurora will reach down into the US again tonight (May 11, 2024), so don't miss it! If it's after that day, or you're too far south to see it (or too far north... some people saw it in Australia!), then hopefully my video will give you some idea what it was like!
A couple of the sites I use to follow solar weather:
- Solar Ham: www.solarham.com
- NOAA 30-minute Aurora Forecast: www.swpc.noaa....
- NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center: www.swpc.noaa.gov
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Huge thanks to my Dad for sending me his photos (the thumbnail is a photo he took near the Missouri River north of St. Louis, MO).
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Chris Barnatt would be proud.
Thanks for showing the aurora. We had really cloudy skies last night, and so we missed it.
Shucks! I'm in awe seeing some of the videos and timelapses from people even further north!
Same, I was up late trying to spot a sign of the aurora but the sky was full of clouds.
Phenomenal, I saw it here in Scotland at the same time, just east of Edinburgh. We are further North but it's rarely a clear night with no cloud so this was excellent.
"Explaining Computers"
+1 😃
This week's EC is next in my queue, followed by this week's 1700's food/cooking on Townsend's . I love my Sunday lunch routine.
LOL 😆 indeed, from 6:16 in the video. Looks like Jeff had a bit of trouble to look serious (poker face). 😄
What will be next? Maybe *Red Shirt **_Chris_* in an _Explaining Computers_ video ?! 😂
Nice football strip Jeff. Looks like St Louis City from my internet investigations. I hope you can get to a game when you play Miami just to witness Messi.
Explaining Computers!?! Well done Jeff! Stanley and Mr. Scissors approve, too!
LOL 😆 What will be next? Maybe *Red Shirt **_Chris_* in an _Explaining Computers_ video ?! 😂 Or even a cluster of scissors. ✂✂✂
I'm in the Netherlands, i saw it all over the sky, it was everywhere, it was an amazing sight.
Jaloers! I happened to be wide awake at 01:00 so I went for a walk to some darker areas, but I think we just had too much cloud coverage, I saw nothing.
We need a Sr. Geerling video on its impact on radio and electric equipment.
We were actually working on a couple experiments... which all failed lol. A couple things came up this week that made it impossible to get our antennas set up the way we wanted. Ah well!
Living near 2 of the largest cities in the UK, I had little to no hope, climbed the nearest hill and I was blown away. Amazing view Jeff, glad you managed to experience it too.
The sun has graced us with so many magnificent moments lately. Very grateful.
Explaning Computers 🤣
I saw a *big* Aurora "event" once in my life: This was somewhere in the '97 - '98 year... I went to college in Northern NY & was walking back to my house one late night (late enough that no-one else was around..) I happened to glance up and the most amazing sky I'd ever seen. Even though it was freezing, I sat right down on the side walk, and just watched for quite a long time. It was amazing, and I'm so glad I was able to see that -- and I'm glad you were able to see it as well..
And yes.. Even though we can explain things with science, it is good to feel a connection with a power greater than us. I'm a protestant and feel the same way. Makes you realize how special we are in the universe. 🙂
Saw it in the UK, just north of Liverpool. Ticked off a bucket list item without leaving the house.
You could have mentioned the solar activity is nearing the peak of a 11 year cycle now in 2024 so there could be more in store!
"Talk to you very soon" we all know where that came from. Nice!
@Jeff, was that an small homage to the Explaining Computers channel in your outro?
Yes! New tradition on the 3rd channel
that's really cool Jeff! Thanks for sharing the video with us!💖👍😎JP
Watch in 4k!
I was driving the wrong direction that night, plus plenty of clouds. I did see some green behind the clouds a few times.
I have some shots from 2 cycles ago in SE Michigan. Drove to Alaska in February a few years later to see them.
Finally, the Geomagnetic Storm was upgraded to G5 IIRC.
I did experience God, life all the mistery unfolding itself beautifully. It does help me put everything in perspective even if I’m going through a very tough moment in my life. There is always love and beauty all around
I saw the hype on twitter so I went outside. Just north of Paris 🇫🇷, and I was amazed by this spectacle.
First time seeing northern lights for me.
Fantastic vid, was super interesting seeing all the eclipse stuff I missed out on in the UK, so I’m glad I can “beat” you on this one :P
Slight correction to the subtitles. At 2:10, I’m pretty sure you say “like”, not “they”
Glad your kids were awake to see it with you. I remember a particularly southern aurora when I was, probably around six or seven, that my dad made a point of grabbing us and taking us out back to watch. That was forty years ago and is still one of my favorite early memories.
Awesome. There's a good chance the luck continues for Saturday and Sunday nights. More "extreme" space weather is in the forecast. If possible, best viewing is outside of town away from light pollution sources. (any light scatters off moisture in the atmosphere above)
Perhaps an opportunity to position a remote camera in an ideal location.
eg: a 12+ megapixel raspberry pi camera with wide-angle lens.
Wow, you guys are so lucky to have Mother Nature show you this spectacle. Don’t you think is a gently invitation to American people to commit personally in protecting the planet in order for not losing it?
Man i live a bit west of you in ofallon mo and had a better show than us.... Still blew my mind and made me a bit worried as to how easily we could be erased from existance lol😅
god almighty that looks amazing
i hope they're visible in the middle east tomorrow but i really doubt it
Every time there is to be a light show like this, we get heavy cloud! last night was no different. 5 to 10 miles out of town, everyone else got to see it!!
The Aurora are beautiful and mesmerising. I was very lucky to see it in northern Sweden in 2002 kind of unexpectedly when I went for a dusk walk. Sadly I didn't have a camera with me, but that also meant I got to see it in full. At one point a curtain of colour came down and split in two, each side moving in opposite directions, leaving a clear gap between. Cameras don't really do it justice, though some of today's photos are spectacular!
“Then what must expensive cameras”
Huh have you seen the cost of a phone lately! 😂
Fun video. "The heavens declare the glory of God" (Ps 19)! Thanks, Jeff.
I am over in st charles, and I must have not looked hard enough. I will look again tonight.
Nice to see, sad that RUclips destroys the video... There is so much chunking and banding in the video :(
staying up tonight to see it :-)
Fingers crossed we get some good activity tonight and it's not all during the day tomorrow!
If we ever see the Aurora in San Antonio I think we'll be in big trouble!
I'm more south in Missouri and I was blown away to see it!
Absolutely stunning! Thanks for sharing this I'm hopeful it returns tonight. Again thanks, beautiful images.
I spent a year at the South Pole. An aurora is truly a spectacular.
My wife remembers seeing the Aurora in '88 from our last house in Florissant, MO. My kids and I don't remember it. I keep looking up from my current place in Cary, NC. But the horizon is pretty occluded by trees, in all directions.
Florissant MO! I shot some pictures at Sunset Park while Jeff was shooting his videos.
It was my first time seeing it. I'm in Benton Harbor, MI. You saw what footage I got last night on Mastodon. That was my first attempt at capturing it. My security camera in the front yard alerted me to it being visible. I was preparing to head out to the countryside to get a better view, when it turned out that just stepping outside our house was enough. We live in a town but we don't get enough light pollution here to obscure it. It was visible here from about 10pm until 12:45am when the clouds moved in. Sunset was at around 8:55pm but I could not see it with my eyes until around 10.
I didn't plan this, but tonight I'll have a new Reolink camera to point towards the sky. It should be delivered later this afternoon. I'm also going to try to setup my dad's DSLR on his tripod to see if I can capture it that way. I think I'm done with shakeycam for now.
Ha! I might actually grab a spare 4K security camera I have and run out a long Ethernet cable, and have it on the sky tonight. We'll see if it comes back down this far south again!
You should have a better shot at it, and the new Reolink has great night vision. Ping me if you get a nice video, I'd love to see it!
It was cloudy in Sydney 😢
Unfortunatly I've lsot the chance yesterday. I was outside for a walk and I didnt see anything. (I wasn't aware of the sun flares tho)
Mostly due to light pollution. But all around italy people posted cool pictures.
I don't think that tonight there will be the same reactivity over the EU.
If I would have know I would have travelled to a nearby town with less population or to the coutry side!
It's possible tonight will be as good... we'll see! Follow the NOAA forecast I link in the description to see if you'll be in the green or orange band
I live in Italy too, but I did manage to take some pics and see it even with light pollution by having long exposures (iphone 15 pro saw it as well!)
@fuomag9
Yesterday or the day prior?
Yesterday i think It did nothing.
Appreciate this a lot ❤
I doubt that itll be visible in southern ish Europe... :(
Aww, well you can live vicariously through others! Now I want to go up to northern Canada someday and see it out in the countryside, away from city lights!
It was visible in Portugal!
It was visible throughout most of Europe at times, but we also has at least 200% cloud cover where I was
I saw it in Alaska, in August 1974. It light the entire sky. I watched it from near the top of the TV tower at Ft. Greeley. It had the entire rainbow of colors, and was so bright that I could read the signs scattered around the base, and I could see clearly for miles. It was a cold and windy night, so I could only stay up there for about 45 minutes. I only saw it once during that year. There were only three TV cameras on base. One in our TP66 film chain, and two RCA B&W studio cameras. I didn't have a climbing belt, and my things were still in transit so I had no film camera.
The local's response? 'Big deal, we've all seen them'.
Ha! A neighbor from Alaska was also a little surprised how nuts we went over it in St. Louis lol
@@Level2Jeff It was my first night working at that station. I could repair every piece of equipment there, yet a was 'to be taught how to use it' I watched some idiot for about five minutes, before I went outside. I could not only run the station, I jury rigged a method to transmit our station ID in color at a B&W only station. That case a bigger stir than the Aurora Borealis
When I as a young kid, living in St. Paul, MN at the time. We saw the Aurora pretty much yearly in the Fall. But now that were back home in Caliif., forge it!
My neighbor lived in Canada and Alaska, and he knows what it's like, but loved that it reached all the way down here. Fingers crossed we have another night of it!
@@Level2Jeff - Look forward to your YT. BTW- Love watching your video's, as you build your studio / Shop.
that's amazing, sad I missed it where I am but from what I heard it was too cloudy anyways so it wouldn't have mattered.
I appreciate you sharing you experience and excitement with us.
Wow! That is awesome man! I'm so glad that so many folks around the world got to see this. I had too much light pollution and some clouds here in Dallas Tx to see it but I knew a lot of people were in awe. Take care man.
Cant wait for tonight. Hope we have something like last night.
Explaining Auroras? lol Took me a while to remember Chris' name tho LOL
So it's awesome to know I'm not the only one that follows Space Weather.... this was pretty nerve wracking right? Well if you had been following it as each flare happened it would have been terrifying ! lol I just relied on the MOST IMPORTANT CHANNEL I follow on here, and he gave 3 updates throughout Thursday, which still had me on edge.... I haven't been following Space weather for very long, maybe 3 years now, so this was the craziest I've ever seen.. AND the guy, Ben, who runs the chan I follow, Suspicious0bservers , has been following it for about 30 years I think he said, and this too was the craziest he's ever seen it.
But none of the aurora should have even happened! The only reason why we were able to see this so far south is because of the Magnetic Field being SOOO WEAK right now, compared to where it typically is. and this is because the Poles ARE reversing. But that has been kept out of the mainstream because it most likely WOULD cause chaos and panic... and thats a BAD thing (no matter how many Zombie movies, or End of the World movies we watch.... it would be terrible!!)
I was hoping you were gonna say that you plan on going out to somewhere with a bit less light pollution, and a great view of the entire sky, AND you were gonna do a time-lapse of the ENTIRE night (and have in the4 night mode that you mentioned) There's still plenty of time to prep for it ;) lol
I'm in South Jersey, and there's barely any immediate light pollution, but being about 30 miles outside of Philly and quite a bit of suburban sprawl- near me, even though I'm pretty far into the wooded area, any buit of haze, for, or cloud gets lit up. But it still seems to be better than what you're dealing with. - I just don't have much of a clean view of the sky :( (or a very good camera lol - I have a Galaxy S20 Ultra but I don't think it's got a great camera... but then again I've only ever looked at the pic on the phone's screen and not on anything much bigger...
I'll give it shot tonight- IF the clouds have cleared up by then... it's was completely overcast last... But unlike what you said, tonight is supposed to be really active too, I think. But I guess it's just up to timing :)
ANYWAY, I hope you get some more pics and video tonight and make another video for Sunday! See you then if you do! Be safe and have a good time :)
Yeah, we'll see how things go tonight! I will definitely have the GoPro in the right mode, and I *might* head somewhere with less light pollution this time... we'll see!
Can you do video creating the best RPi setup to have 24/7 stationed out in backyard for astro stuff? One of my relatives lives in a low bortle zone and I've always wanted to install something to capture the skies
I've been tinkering with an all-sky Pi camera setup... hopefully I'll get to that later this year!
My blood pressure...
It was cool 🇬🇧
And my comment is gone, thanks YT.
I still see another one, RUclips's just weird like that sometimes!
@@Level2Jeff Yes YT sometime is weird.
Hi jeff
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