© Øystein Ingvaldsen
More Arctic lights are in the offing. A solar wind stream is buffeting Earth's magnetic field, and NOAA forecasters estimate a 15% - 25% chance of high-latitude geomagnetic activity during the next 24 hours. Aurora alerts are available here.
© Chad BlakleyAbisko National Park, Sweden: "Another great night in Abisko!! (Hopefully not the last one of the season) It was around 10:00 PM and I was watching a movie with my wife when a friend of mine called me and told me to grab my camera and go outside as fast as I could. When I got outside the sky was full of color from horizon to horizon. Nine hundred shots and five gigs later I finally went back home. Shot with a Nikon D7000, Tokina 11-16 2.8, 1600 ISO 5-8 second exposures."
© lightsoverlapland.com
© lightsoverlapland.com
© Hanneke LuijtingTromsø, Norway: "Beautiful auroras against the twilight sky - with the crescent moon still just about visible above the mountains. It won't be long until it doesn't get dark enough for auroras..."
© Valentin CLEMENT and Guillaume GRAVEYLofoten Islands, North of Norway: "We were driving in the Lofoten Islands, located in the North of Norway, when we saw this amazing aurora, enlightening the sky with a powerful green and slightly purple colour! Here, at 10:48 p.m. the sun is not far and give us a blue sky as background. I took this picture with a Nikon D300, ISO 250, f4 and 15s of exposure time."
© Frank OlsenHillesøy island outside Tromsø, Norway: "Another fantastic Aurora trip! Was so lucky both with nice weather and Aurora. In these images there's both sunset, moon and aurora. Images are taken at Hillesøy island just outside Tromsø, Norway. Canon EOS 7D, with Tokina 11-16 f/2.8. ISO 640, 5 - 8 secs exposure."
© Frank Olsen
© Frank Olsen
There have been many significant Auroral displays of late including the increasing incidence of chorus waves/gravity waves. However I'm wondering now if "Auroral displays" (as distinctly different form the chorus waves) is really an accurate term to describe them now. After doing some reading up and studying of the Sun's EM configuration on Donald Scotts website and a few other areas concerning the phenomena we see, I can't help but see a similarity between these intenses aurora filament displays and the Suns magnetic filaments, and wonder if the two are connected? It was said in another article carried under the "Fire in the Sky" topic heading that a, "magnificent filament of magnetism is curling around the sun's southeastern quadrant today", and it just so happens that on the same day, we have intense Auroral filament displays on Earth, "so as above, so below". So maybe it would be more accurate to describe the Aurora's as Electromagnetic Filaments Displays, as they seem to display the same type of filament like behaviour we see in the Suns atmosphere?