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The Aurora Borealis Gallery

All images copyright © Jan Curtis, images #1-#6 and Dick Hutchinson, images #7-#12. All rights reserved.

<< 7/12 < > April 5, 2000. We had quite an auroral storm on the 5th and 6th. I received reports of sightings from as far south as Virginia. What was unusual for me here was that the southern sky was covered. For those of you who don't mind large files (1.6mb), here is an animated sequence of 35 3 second exposures on Kodak's Ektachrome 400X pushed 1 stop with 28mm f1.4 Odd behavior in air and marine navigation instruments has been observed, and a compass anywhere on Earth is certainly affected.

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