At ages 55 and 53, this was the first time ever we saw the Northern Light [Wayback/Archive] 20240511 – 20240512 – Noorderlicht – Northern Light – Aurora Borealis – Google Photos.
It was a quiet night right after the R171 of the better half broke after I had been using it. We were both frustrated and vented of by driving to the coast in my car with no expectations seeing the Northern Light. Oh, how wrong we were. It was great in real life and even better on camera.
All photos were taken by hand with my smartphone (OnePlus Nord2 5G) at Nederzandt Beach which is both a 15 minute drive from the broken down car and 15 minutes from our home.
I like the ones below the signature most.
In the same weekend, I got pointed to this [Wayback/Archive] “Colors of Aurora” Poster for Sale by Leo the Alien | Redbubble from his [Wayback/Archive] alienyrox shop | Redbubble.
Via (the first tweets did not attribute the author by cutting top and bottom of the picture, which I think is a shame for professional social media users):
- [Wayback/Archive] Helga van Leur ☀ on X: “Het ziet ernaar uit dat het noorderlicht spektakel van gisteravond en afgelopen nacht eenmalig was. De kleuren ontstaan op verschillende hoogtes. Dat we alle kleuren zagen is zeldzaam: wij zien in NL meestal het poollicht in de hogere luchtlagen.” / X
- [Wayback/Archive] Dr. Marshall Shepherd on X: “Good explanation of what you saw last night…for us this far South, we see a lot of the reddish pink because at our latitude, we see the upper altitude mostly. We in the South experienced something very unique and possibly once in a lifetime for those that were curious…”
- [Wayback/Archive] Dr. Marshall Shepherd on X: “Same picture but with source attribution”
- [Wayback/Archive] Dr. Marshall Shepherd on X: “Good explanation of what you saw last night…for us this far South, we see a lot of the reddish pink because at our latitude, we see the upper altitude mostly. We in the South experienced something very unique and possibly once in a lifetime for those that were curious…”
--jeroen
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