26 March 2014

Red aurorae borealis


As winter finally fades here in the northern latitudes, so do the opportunities to witness displays of the aurora borealis.  Spectacular sightings were reported this year, including a seemingly inordinate number of reports of red auroras.

Top photo from a Reddit thread.  Below that one from a photoessay at the BBC.  The Telegraph has a photo of a similarly red aurora Australis.

2 comments:

  1. The green and red in aurorae are very specific colours since they arise from specific excitation states of atoms. I would say that these bright pink ones has just been tweaked in post-processing until the colour balance is well away from natural.

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  2. Lovely colors. One day I do hope to get far enough north to enjoy that phenomenon.

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