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?

 

[fuzzi]

 

[mdees88]

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.

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

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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?

That looks like a faint aurora to me. KP 5 is pretty decent for catching it in northern US. It looks like it peaked at KP6. It appears they typically penetrate the furthest south in the middle of the US. That would make sense why it was slightly East of North for you.