Nature Photography

[jnicholes]

You know it’s fall when the frogs start sneaking in.

 

[jnicholes]

I need some help figuring something out. I happened to be out last night at 6:00 AM mountain time. I was trying to photograph comet Lemmon. When I was processing pictures after I got home, I noticed this.

I think I captured an Aurora on accident. However, it seemed to be in the wrong place. It wasn’t exactly north.

At the time, spaceweather.com showed a KP index of 5, but it rapidly changed later on in the day, within about an hour, actually.

Was there a geomagnetic storm going on at the time I specified? If it was an Aurora, what was it doing not exactly north?

Can someone please help me figure this out?