APOD: 2022 October 9 - Auroras over Northern Canada

Thank you my space-exploration advocate friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the October 9, 2022 Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD): Auroras over Northern Canada

By the way, October 9 is my birthday and my darling wife's birthday.

Auroras over Northern Canada; Image Credit & Copyright: Kwon, O Chul (TWAN)


APOD Explanation: Gusting solar winds and blasts of charged particles from the Sun resulted in several rewarding nights of auroras back in 2014 December, near the peak of the last 11-year solar cycle. The featured image captured dramatic auroras stretching across a sky near the town of Yellowknife in northern Canada. The auroras were so bright that they not only inspired awe, but were easily visible on an image exposure of only 1.3 seconds. A video taken concurrently shows the dancing sky lights evolving in real time as tourists, many there just to see auroras, respond with cheers. The conical dwellings on the image right are tipis, while far in the background, near the image center, is the constellation of Orion. Auroras may increase again over the next few years as our Sun again approaches solar maximum.
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Super APOD share Maj William W. 'Bill' Price

I remember watching these up @ moosehead Lake in Maine during the Flyin in Sept