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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. Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | This is Page 6 | Page 7 | Page 8 | Page 9 | Page 10 | Page 11 | Page 12 Unless otherwise stated, all images are copyrighted by the photographers. |
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Diego Gaspari 'Bandion', Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy) Nov. 20 |
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Canon EOS D10 + Canon 17-35 mm f/2,8 |
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David Rice,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA Nov. 20 |
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Exposure: 30 sec, f5.6 Canon 10d DSLR, 28mm lens. |
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Mike Holloway,
Van Buren, Arkansas, USA Nov. 21 |
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I have only seen auroras here three times and this is the first time for green and blue colors. 1600 ISO color film - 20 sec. exp. |
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Pekka Parviainen, Turku, Finland Nov. 20 |
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Although a lot of clouds have been spoiling our skies, I had a chance to see some of the glory from Nov20/21 display during 20-23UT. All the auroras were low in the southern sky, which is not normal for my geomagnetic latitude 57N (geographic 60N). Also the red colour was abnormally bright even in foggy skies under city lights!! Intensity was much like in April 6th 2000 when we also had Bz -50nT. |
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Peter Jeric, Joze Spegel,
Graska Gora, Velenje, Slovenia Nov. 20 |
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Exceptional event for our location. Auroras all over the sky in Slovenia. My film was gone too soon... as always. As one of the best-known astonomers in this area after the event mailed: "Well, I think it's time to die now, I've seen everything." |
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Alan Simpson,
Renfrewshire, W. Scotland, UK Nov. 20 |
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Extremely bright display. At it's height an auroral arc passed overhead and moved south giving a blue/green 'rainbow' across the southern horizon, amazing! Photo details Nikon 885, ASA400, 8seconds |
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Marilyn DesJardin, Pierz, Minnesota Nov. 20 |
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I used a Canon T-90 with 800 speed film. This was my first time to see and photograph such a spectacular show of brilliant red and green colors. There are no words to describe the wonder of it all! |
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Kaj Kauko, Nacka, Stockholm, Sweden Nov. 20 |
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Photo details: Olympus 5050Z 400ASA f2,6 16s and 10s exposure. |
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Michaela Beitzinger, Wuerzburg, Bavaria, Germany Nov. 20 |
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I never thought that I would see such beautiful auroras at this latitude. Great! Photo details: Canon D60, 20-25s exposure |
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Mike Dickson,
Peebles, Scotland (UK)(55Deg.North/3Deg.West) Nov. 22 |
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Nikon FM2n 28mm lens@f2.8 35secs Ektachrome200 A very bright display with long red rays up to Zenith. The storm was already coronal at nightfall and proceeded to drift south as the night went on(see Mars in the south west). |
more: from Graeme Whipps of Cunningsburgh, Shetland, U.K.; from Mark Williams of La Givrine, VD, Switzerland; from Phil Marston of Aberdeen, Scotland; from Stefan Ziegenbalg of Pulsnitz, Saxony, Germany
