Radiation Hitting the Atmosphere Creating Auroras

Capturing solar radiation interacting with our magnetic field and atmosphere in Montana.
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[@TomKappeln]

The sky over Poland was pink and green for 4 hours yesterday. Greets Drew !

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Sounds like you had a great show over there.

[@TomKappeln]

@@RadioactiveDrew 100% ! Tonight may be even better, there is a G5 on his way. 9:38pm over here, clear skys ... Fingers crossed.

[@Astro-adventure]

radioactive drew uploaded again!!!!!!!!

[@steve45]

Managed to catch the Aurora all the way down in the South of England. Its far from rare to see them in the UK though it tends to be easier/more common to see them much further north. For them to be visible so far south is a rarer occasion.

[@SubvertTheState]

Yes. Apparently it's more southern ionization than we've seen in 50 years.

[@OiAvogadro]

I see them quite often here up in Scotland, but never in my life have I ever had to look SOUTH to see the Aurora. Still can’t quite grasp what I witnessed over the weekend 🤯

[@shayne109]

stunning footage drew! kinda nice to think a lot of us were all looking at the same phenomena at the same time across the whole night side of the northern hemisphere.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

It was a very shared experience for sure.

[@confuseatronica]

First aurora I ever saw, and I saw it near Los Angeles- it was nuts! There's a chance of another good event on monday night from a CME that happened yesterday.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I'll have to keep an eye out for that one. Thanks for the heads up.

[@OnTheRiver66]

It was mostly cloudy where I live, but you got great videos. I checked the background level where I live and it did not change, and you explained why.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I try and explain as much as I can. I like to imagine that people learn a bit watching some of the videos.

[@bernarrcoletta7419]

DUDE! You are so lucky. We had a decent chance of seeing them in Maryland this weekend, but it’s going to be cloudy and rainy all weekend.

[@PBeringer]

Incredible footage, Drew! The one night I didn't want it cold and rainy, it pissed down in Sydney. Couldn't see a thing; such a bummer. Probably too much light pollution, anyway. Those shots from about 3:00 look like you're travelling through some "cosmic tunnel". So awesome!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

That shot of looking straight up was one of my favorite.

[@Joel-mp2oo]

Was raining here near Brisbane I was going to try do a timelapse but the sky decided it wanted to close up with clouds.. so glad you were able to get clear skys would of been an expierence to see that from your location. Cheers for another great video drew.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Thanks. Hopefully the weather works out for you in the next couple days as this still might be going on.

[@tjzambonischwartz]

Caught it from Colorado and had to actuality look SOUTH to see it. I was seeing the westernmost tip of the auroral front that extended southeast through Alabama and into Florida. My mom in Arizona was able to see it too. Definitely a storm for the history books.

[@LordTimelord]

Outstanding camera work! Thank you very much for uploading it! 👍😎👍

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@NeganFluffyFurry]

i completely forgot what day it was happening so i almost missed it lol. my friend was over so we drove to the park with his friends and got some really beautiful photos. loved watching to understand what was causing it!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Glad you were able to see it.

[@NeganFluffyFurry]

@@RadioactiveDrew yeah it was awesome! live here in washington so we got to see it pretty well at some points. i personally didnt take many pictures but my friends did! my parents loved them :P

[@piparalegal2019]

Thanks for sharing this awe-inspiring sight! It's beautiful!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

No problem. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@KJ4EZJ]

I spent five hours driving around Southwest Virginia Friday night trying to find myself outside clouds and storms at a good vantage point while the aurora was popping off. I got some beautiful colors in the sky, but no dancing. Finally, I had resigned to defeat and I was just a mile from home when I saw whispers through my windshield and decided to pull over one last time. Aurora (my dog) and I got the show of our lifetime at about 2:30 AM EDT, which would have been around the time you were filming this. Thanks for sharing!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Yeah, the auroras in Montana started to really get going around 11:30pm MST. Glad you got to see it.

[@mamboman42]

Wow! Thanks for sharing! Also tried to see it myself, but too cloudy and too much light pollution here...

[@markramsay6399]

Some great video - really moving colours... / Stunning if I had my music mojo back I would write some music to go with this. Mark.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@barbaradoheny4473]

We literally have seen it over the Golden Gate Bridge in the San Francisco Bay Area. There was a imilar aurora that went very far south on. Friday Dec. 1 2023. The news said it would be red. So on my way home that night, round about midnught, I took this photo from the pedestrian bridge over Sunnyvale. CA, about 40 miles south of San Francisco.

[@promisel1964]

and its so brilliant too wow thanks drew, as a Note we saw it as far south of Houston Texas (southside)

[@chasingcapsaicin]

The best footage, cells, most valuable to well wholy shit

[@thickernell]

LOL. When I saw the thumbnail my first thought was you were going to a cemetery with lots of radiation workers that died from cancers from huge body burdens, like the “Radium Girls” who painted the watch dials! Then I read the title.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

That would make a cool video...if there was something to find.

[@thickernell]

@@RadioactiveDrew yep, but I doubt any body burden. It was all just alpha exposure from within their digestive systems over many years of daily exposure. Great book BYW, The Radium Girls. Very sad.

[@sski]

That was outstanding! Thank you, Drew! I live in South Central Wisconsin and was hoping to see some but we had clouds and rain for the last two nights. Your footage gives me a taste though. Awesome!

[@maralisil]

Sane thing in Syracuse, NY! 😑

[@CommomsenseSmith]

Eclipse and now aura! Two major celestial events so close is awesome. Were you able to see it with your eyes? My neighbor took some video and photos but said she only saw it on the camera and not with her naked eyes.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

I could see it with my eyes. But the colors were really captured with the cameras.

[@CommomsenseSmith]

So cool looked great on your equipment!

[@cameronhamer9432]

@@RadioactiveDrewmost of the time you’ll see green , it’s rare to get the whole spectrum . I worked winters in the far north . 👍🇨🇦

[@ausnorman8050]

Hobart Tasmania, best lights I'd ever seen. Green/red/yellow/blue/purple.... crazy but we are also at 42' south! Looks like you had quite the show as well!

[@stevenmoratz7333]

Cool!

[@dogprowilhelm7630]

Raining here, but your view looks spectacular❤.

[@exquirentibusveritatem7910]

Thank you, Drew! I got to see it here in southwest Virginia!!!

[@jtr789310]

Saw the Aurora in the Texas Hill Country out side of Kerrville Friday night on the he 11th of May it was red to pink high in the sky had no green.

[@johngalt1234]

UNBELIEVABLE! I had no idea you could catch the northern lights so far south.

[@tjzambonischwartz]

It was visible from FLORIDA last night. This was a Geomagnetic storm for the history books.

[@RobertJohnson-bj5lk]

Reports from Southern California claimed they were visible there too. Saturday night (5/11) might also include some good A.B. viewing as well.

[@wyoodrifter1811]

@@tjzambonischwartz Really just a little bigger than normal compared to the famous Carrington event in 1859 had several eruptions and caused auroras to be visible at low latitudes for four nights. Similarly, the solar storm of September 1770 lasted for nearly nine days, and caused repeated low-latitude auroras. The two mentioned events probably would have caused disrupt radio transmissions and cause damage to satellites and electrical transmission line facilities, resulting in potentially massive and long-lasting power outages. Hope we don't see one of those.

[@w3vjp568]

This level of auroral activity happens maybe once every 50 years, on average. There's a massive sunspot group on the surface of the sun right now that "burped" a coronal mass ejection our way, and this is the result.

[@hickoryhippie]

Saw them in Cleveland last night.

[@judybassett9390]

Great images and videos!

[@GlennSisson]

Wonderful time-lapse videos Drew, as always. Thanks. And I love the cemetery setting... that's excellent. Thanks.

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Glad you enjoyed it. That cemetery is where the skies start getting pretty dark.

[@zara8289]

Beautiful!

[@rvermill47]

Awesome auroras man!

[@MiamiMillionaire]

Amazing 👍

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Thanks.

[@aviationmedia2425]

WOW! That was some beautiful footage and the music selection was perfect.

[@wndf1234]

Great shots Drew.

[@andygriffiths9916]

That’s amazing.

[@mudbuckets8902]

Incredible timelapse bro

[@alexb.1382]

wow!

[@jefftoll604]

Yup. I'm not detecting any significant increase in background radiation levels over the past few days.

[@solanaceae2069]

Sky became overcast as the Sun set in this part of Montana. So, unfortunately, I wasn't able to see the show.

[@ericfielding2540]

Beautiful video of the aurora! How much speeded up is the time-lapse video?

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Most of the timelapses were shot over the course of 12 minutes.

[@jonesymtb01]

It was red in Australia

[@Liminaut0]

Just wondering! Did you noticed any increase in background radiation? I did, at about 75cpm. :) cool video! :D

[@LT1SWAPCOM]

Its like a strong magnet near my CRT tv....

[@skyking3525]

I have friends that were seeing the lights in Fresno, CA! Amazing right?!

[@RadioactiveDrew]

That is pretty crazy.

[@The-One-and-Only100]

Did you detect anything with your radiacodes

[@thexfile.]

It is cool.

[@robsadv]

We had clouds in NC... went outside at 4am, the clouds were gone, but so was aurora :(

[@RadioactiveDrew]

Sorry you missed it. Sounds like the sun is entering an active phase. So maybe there will be more.

[@Neil_Winston]

The particles in a coronal mass ejection that cause aurora are not a form of ionizing radiation The actual ionizing radiation are the x-rays that are emitted from the solar flare, 24-78hrs prior to a geomagnetic storm, depending on velocity of the ejection.

[@jamesleicher]

Over south Australia was blood red .1:33

[@RadioactiveDrew]

That would be cool to see.

[@jamesleicher]

@RadioactiveDrew can look up on Google southern lights Tasmania,

[@rockstarjazzcat]

🤙🏻

[@tfrowlett8752]

It was stunning down in Australia, the brightest I’ve ever seen it. Ours was red with hints of blue

[@APWaddington]

I didn't get to see it due to cloud cover but it was apparently visible in dark sky areas as far north as Sydney Australia

[@GenJackOneill]

im really sad i didnt get to see it at its brightest. I had to go to bed about 7pm. And when i woke up for work at 230 am, it wasnt anywhere near this bright in, at least in Belgrade.

[@wyoodrifter1811]

Hey Jack it was bright here in Casper but not much color just some red on edges of bright white curtain , it was huge taking almost 1/4 of the sky. Also it seemed to be centered to the north east.

[@rickmerritt8035]

Where I live has too much light pollution. My health kept me from getting somewhere to see it.

[@kevindavid37]

What do you mean you normally have to go to Iceland to see them? What about Canada or Alaska?

[@RadioactiveDrew]

You can see them up there. But I was talking about my experience and when I’ve seen them.

[@kevindavid37]

@@RadioactiveDrew I see 😄

[@woof3598]

does it show up green to the naked eye or it that from the camera settings >?

[@oldminer5387]

I agree Drew, cool. Thank you for sharing, to overcast to see anything where I live.

[@GlennSisson]

I see that Drew said (in a reply above) that he could see naked-eye color but that it mostly came out via the cameras. That was my experience too. I'm near the CA/OR border and got great colorful iPhone pictures, but naked eye could only see the faintest of green and no pink at all. What my eyes did see was mostly just a diffuse whitish glow to the north, but the curtains/streaks/smears were the dead giveaway that it was an aurora.

[@bruschi8148]

Live in new england and it was overcast😭

[@RadioactiveDrew]

That’s too bad. Looks like it’s still happening tonight.