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Aurora

Here we display some images of the elusive Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights.  The Sun, spewing billions of tons of matter into space in what are known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs), bombards the Earth and its magnetic field with charged particles.  It's these charged particles and their interaction with the Earth's magnetosphere that cause the aurora.

2005-09-11

Brian Jolley captured this beautiful image early in the morning of September 11, 2005, a 30 second exposure at ISO400...

2005-09-10

The northern lights as imaged by Anthony Arrigo of Utah SkiesAnthony Arrigo captured this image of the northern lights during the final hour of the night's Utah Skies Star Party

2005-08-24
Here's another example of the active Sun's affect on planet Earth, as imaged by Anthony Arrigo.

2004-11-07

Don Brown captured this beautiful shot of the northern lights in November of 2004.

2003-10-29

Anthony got this great shot on this memorable night....

2001-03-31

aurora.jpg (62084 bytes)aurora2.jpg (38096 bytes)aurora3.jpg (144369 bytes)aurora4.jpg (69763 bytes)aurora5.jpg (63771 bytes)This series of images was taken by Anthony Arrigo during one of the most amazing nights. Aurora stretched from the northern horizon to overhead and slightly beyond. The Big Dipper was red for a while. Park City, UT

2000-11-10
aurora1.jpg (64530 bytes) Rich Demanowski snapped this pic of the November show in Park City, UT.
 
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