Looking into a sheet of auroral pickets at sunset (Ian Dixon)

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Looking into a sheet of auroral pickets at sunset

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Looking into a sheet of auroral pickets at sunset

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In the Solar Storm of May 10/24 we found ourselves under a sky where the entire sphere or bowl (north to south, east to west) was shimmering with light.

In this image, I managed to capture the rapid formation of a series of very tall pickets. Most of the picket fence style aurora we see under less violent solar events are mainly green in colour and much smaller. These were 4x - 6x taller than average.

Thanks for reading to the bottom!

P.S. A few nuggets from NASA.gov

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