An aurora in the dawn twilight on September 17, 2024 after a night of a major Kp6 to 8 storm and aurora show. The aurora kicked up again at dawn, with green curtains and with blue rays lit by the Sun at high altitude. The eastern horizon is brightening with dawn light. A bonus meteor pierces the aurora in the northeast. This is a single 4-second exposure with the Laowa 10mm ultra-wide rectilinear lens at f/2.8 on the Nikon Z6III at ISO 800.
SPACEWEATHER.COM NEWS: 09/19/2024
RARE BLUE AURORAS CAUSED BY RESONANT SCATTERING: The severe geomagnetic storm of Sept. 16-17 produced something that even longtime aurora watchers rarely see: Blue Auroras. “I photographed them at dawn on Sept. 17th,” says Alan Dyer, who sends this picture from Gleichen, Alberta:
