November 2003
Aurora Gallery
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Summary: A coronal mass ejection (CME) swept past Earth on Nov. 20th and sparked bright auroras as far south as Florida in the United States and Greece in Europe. The source of the CME was sunspot 484--one of the trio of active regions that caused intense geomagnetic storms last month. See, e.g., the October 2003 aurora gallery.

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  Photographer, Location Images Comments

Bob Sandy,
Roanoke County, VA, USA
Nov. 20
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Taken with a Canon 10d digital SLR camera using a 17mm lens at F/2.8.

Joe F Gafford,
Chiefland, Florida USA
Nov. 20
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Unusual aurora sighting in Chiefland, Florida at the Chiefland star party. These Florida folks never seen this before. Photo details: Minolta Dimage 7 camera, 800 ASA setting, 30 second exposure. 12:04 UT.

Ragnar Johnskås,
Ringsaker, NORWAY
Nov. 20
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When I found out at 9PM that the Kp-index had reached the ceiling, I drove to a higher elevation to escape the mist. Lucky me, clear skies!! A beautiful show in red ! Fuji Provia 400, 35mm F:2:0, 8-20 sec.

Adam Schultz,
Imlay City, Michigan, USA
Nov. 21
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These are black and white pencil drawings I sketched during the Nov. 20-21 auroras, over my home town of Imlay City, Michigan. They were a pale blue-green color, which just started as a few spikes, then spread across the whole northern sky. They were the most spectacular at midnight. The one picture is darker, because I inverted the colors of the original, to make the sky look dark, and the lights look brighter.

Steve Abarta,
Yakima, Washington, USA
Nov. 20
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Auroras appeared to the north at 9:30 PST, peak activity around 10 included a secondary band to the south. Sony Digital Mavica CD300. 400 ASA, 8S exposure, F2.1

Morton Henderson,
Stirling, Scotland, UK
Nov. 20
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This display was almost as good as 29 October. It was unbelievably red in colour. The image 'castle_aurora' shows Stirling Castle under shimmering Northern Lights.

Noreen Harding,
on the cliff tops at Newtonhill, south of Aberdeen, Scotland
Nov. 20
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Probably the best display I have seen, red very visible, taken on Canon Eos 500 on print film ASA 400 at 3.5 for 40 - 50 seconds

William Biscorner,
Memphis, Michigan, USA
Nov. 20
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This red wall of aurora jumped out at me as I went to leave for work Nov. 20th, 5:45am! The red was not as obvious as it is here. Pentax K1000 50mm f/2 lens, fuji 200 film for 15 secs

Frank L. Elder,
Hixburg, Appomattox Co., VA
Nov. 20
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Amazing to have the third night of auroras within as many weeks at this latitude. The colors were phenomenal even though there was not as much structure as in the October displays. Taken with Canon D60, 30 to 90 sec. exposures.

Vladimir Zivkovic,
Djakovo, Croatia, Europe
Nov. 20
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Incredible celestial event! Especially on this latitude (45°N)! I had a luck my dad phoned me to tell me this great news! Auroras lasted for about 5 hours, from 6pm to 11pm! And it was so bright and so colorful! It was MAJESTIC! Camera: Olympus c-4000z, exp. 16s, noise reduction on, f/2,8, ISO400

David Pazar,
Sitka, Alaska, USA
Nov. 20
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I am a Northern Lights phographer who consults SPACEWEATHER.COM daily, so I was expecting auroras on November 20th. I hiked up the Muskeg Trail, North of town. After an initial surge of brilliant displays, the night was 'average'. Shortly after midnight, the eastern sky lit up with these blues and reds and remained intensely bright (note the red tint to the snow) for almost half an hour.

John Carlson,
Winstead, Mnnnesota, USA
Nov. 20
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It seemed the whole northern sky was awash in aurora. WOW! Quite a display!

Curt Goff,
Mansfield, Ohio, USA
Nov. 20
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Capturing the 'southern' aurora from a northern state!

Martin Winder,
Lichtenberg near the city of Linz, Austria
Nov. 20
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The northern horizon was lit by green light all the time; red aurorae with streaks appeared for several minutes at the northeastern and northwestern horizon, while single patches of light showed up for 10 to 40 seconds rather high in the sky. Camera: Canon EOS 50, 100 ASA, f/2.8, 60s exposure

 

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