Friday, July 13, 2012

Northern Lights over Lake Archibald Wisconsin 2012








On my last day at Wisconsin the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) tipped south solar wind poured in and got a colorful Northern Lights display. Started out as a featurless curtain that was green purple and maroon and around midnight it turned into a fluidly moving curtain of rays. To the naked eyes the aurora were grayish in color but a 25-30 sec exposure showed different. I love the peak when the green and purple rays moved about a graceful site which remined me of being on Pandora on James Cameroons AVATAR.