Great Aurora of May 2024

[bobpal]

Let's see your Aurora shots from the May 2024 event. The Aurora was seen over a large area much farther south than normal. It was a result of a very large, rare solar storm.

Show us you photos and tell us where you made them.

The Aurora over Ashland, Oregon at 11:14 pm on May 10, 2024. 4 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1250, @ 24mm

 

[RhodyPhotos]

Northwest corner of Rhode Island, around 1:00 am.

 

[SJA]

Snoqualmie, Washington!

Aurora 2024 by Sabrina Aspinall, on Flickr

 

[ShipleyNW]

Up here in the PWN, we miss out on a lot of celestial happenings. First requirement is a clear sky, and we tend to stumble on that hurdle.

So with the Northern Lights visible, and the skies clear last night, well, we had ourselves an event. It seems like the whole county came out to my little burg in the mountains. Every dark stretch of road had a long line of traffic. Like Taylor Swift had come to town. I just went to the city park down the street to get a good view to the north, past Mt Si.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Gorgeous pics. Wow. Some of you had a really nice spot to shoot this from. Amazing and beautiful.

 

[Joeseph]

Haven't ever heard of anyone seeing Aurora as far north as here before (Auckland) - heres a quick shot from our backyard last night looking south:



(can't recall ever seeing that many stars from here either!)

 

[joayne]

So you’re seeing the aurora australis.. that’s so cool that both the Northern and Southern Auroras are being seen at the same time! I read that it’s being seen in South America for the first time in 165 years.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

I saw pics from people in Switzerland! That’s nuts.

 

[gjl711]

I love all the aurora pictures. Unfortunately, it hasn't made its way down to Texas. :-(
If you want to see if its visible in your area, this site gives you a 30 minute look forecast.

Aurora - 30 Minute Forecast | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center

www.swpc.noaa.gov

 

[Moose135]

We are in the Kansas City, MO area, visiting family, and were able to go out Friday night to catch the Northern Lights. Drove about 30 minutes north of KC into farm country. Drove down some dark roads and found a place to park near this farm, using some silos as a foreground. The third shot is from about a half mile down that same road, shooting across a farm field. It was truly an amazing site!

 

[theague]

Here are a couple of my terrible snaps from my front porch. My wife woke me up because I wasn't expecting this and was asleep and unprepared. So I snapped a few with my mobile phone.

 

[joayne]

@Kody - At least you got to see it! Pretty good mobile snaps.

 

[Dragonspeed]

I love all the aurora pictures. Unfortunately, it hasn't made its way down to Texas. :-(
If you want to see if its visible in your area, this site gives you a 30 minute look forecast.

Aurora - 30 Minute Forecast | NOAA / NWS Space Weather Prediction Center

www.swpc.noaa.gov

People in FLORIDA got shots of the lights... almost at the Tropic of Cancer! It was crazy.

 

[Dragonspeed]

I heard about it, but usually, all the hype ends up with pretty much nothing. That ovation usually sweeps significantly north as it approaches British Columbia and we get bupkiss, so I largely ignored it and was gaming all night. My Facebook feed started blowing up with pics, so I went out at 2:30am (Vancouver BC) and shot these with an iPhone 15 handheld (which obviously does in phone stacking and averaging... The amazing part about Friday's light show was that the lights were ALL over the sky. In the past when Vancouver DID get lights, they were usually faint and low on the Northern Horizon. This storm was so intense that you could see them to the SOUTH.



Aurora Borealis over Vancouver, Canada by Brian Hampson, on Flickr


Aurora Borealis over Vancouver, Canada by Brian Hampson, on Flickr


Aurora Borealis over Vancouver, Canada by Brian Hampson, on Flickr

 

[gaabnz]

Taken at Mangawhai, about an hour and half north of Auckland. Unheard of to see it this far north. Got the trifecta of aurora, milky way and bioluminence in single shot

Aurora, milky way and bioluminence by Gary Ashton, on Flickr

Aurora Beams 2 by Gary Ashton, on Flickr

Mangawhai Museum aurora by Gary Ashton, on Flickr

 

[AdeR]

Mowhanau Beach, Whanganui, New Zealand...

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[AdeR]

And an iPhone shot at home about 9pm....