Astounding Alta Auroras
Our northern lights display in Tromsø was just the appetizer for the main course in Alta on the evening of Friday, 13 October 2023!
Multicolored pillars at 10:13 pm
I wasn’t able to take an excursion out into the countryside this evening, so I scouted the container yard and airport perimeter near the ship to try to find a place with as few streetlights as possible. When I checked the forecast at 9:30 pm, I saw that an “interplanetary storm” was underway. Time to run out and get to work! I was in place by 10 pm.
Curtain forming at 10:27 pm
As soon as my eyes adapted to the dark, I saw auroras forming to the northeast. They quickly developed into a multi-colored curtain that shimmered and steadily grew in height and length.
The pillars grow in height at 10:35 pm
The curtain continued to dance, and the colors were more intense than any I’d seen before.
https://youtu.be/Sh-54Ch2JG4
Animation of auroras between 10:34 and 10:36 pm
10:37 pm
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