Aurora Borealis in Northern New Hampshire, USA

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Aurora Borealis in Northern New Hampshire, USA

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Aurora, taken in northern New Hampshire USA, 50mm lens, 400asa Fuji film, Pentax K1000

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Clear Skies,
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I always dreamed about seeing one of these 'live'!
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beautiful
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beautiful...pity we don't get to see it here...and hopefully not.
If the northern lights appear in singapore, the world is in trouble!
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Airconvent wrote:beautiful...pity we don't get to see it here...and hopefully not.
If the northern lights appear in singapore, the world is in trouble!
Then the world is already in trouble, cos an aurora was reportedly seen in Singapore before!

See:

http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/e ... aurora.htm
http://www.oulu.fi/~spaceweb/textbook/great_aurora.html
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/primer/primer.html
http://www.noaawatch.gov/themes/space.php

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http://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/nicky/cme-chase.html
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gchew wrote:
Then the world is already in trouble, cos an aurora was reportedly seen in Singapore before!

That is very interesting. This is the first time I am reading about this - an aurora display seen in Singapore on 25th September 1909.

"During an unusually large geomagnetic storm disturbance in 1909, an aurora was visible at Singapore, located on the geomagnetic equator."

So, if this is a once in a century event, it would be due again about now and we might get lucky one day whilst at Mersing!

That is a very good photo, mtmannh. To be able to see and capture such deep red/pink colours.
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Hi,
May be we can see it in Singapore during a magnetic 'flip' of the earth....
Average about one in 250,000 years and the last one was 790,000 years ago... Hmm... Just wonder how aircraft and ship going to nagivate if that happen???

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we still have GPS.
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