Richard T. Par
Last Friday, I went out into my backyard to take photos of the Sun as multiple sunspots were visible on its surface.
Using my Nikon D3300 DSLR camera, I captured the image above of the Sun with a large group of sunspots—known as Active Region 3664—visible in its southern hemisphere. These sunspots were responsible for the powerful geomagnetic storm that caused auroras to be visible in such low-latitude regions as Southern California and Florida two days ago!
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to spot the aurora last Friday due to cloudy weather here in Los Angeles County...and the solar storm wasn't strong enough to create more auroras when I tried to see them in person during a trip to Angeles National Forest in the San Gabriel Mountains last night. It's all good.
Missing the aurora on Friday only gives me more motivation to visit Iceland and/or Norway someday to check out the Northern Lights from there! Carry on.
And Happy Mother's Day!
Richard T. Par
Aurora borealis in Los Angeles! pic.twitter.com/ZIT9zOZU3l
— Swati Mohan (@DrSwatiMohan) May 11, 2024
Northern Lights RIGHT NOW over #KeyLargo Florida, this is insane to see the Aurora Borealis so far south ! pic.twitter.com/iBljm17x82
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