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u/_samae 11d ago
aurora?
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u/Pyrhan 11d ago
Or maybe just something on the ground illuminating clouds from below.
Maybe if u/idialedyournumber could give us at least a tiny bit of info on where/when/in what direction they saw this, and wether there were stars visible that night or the sky was cloudy...
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u/idialedyournumber 10d ago
Hey mb my phone was dead haha it was in the Eastern direction and it was cloudy as hell at the time, had also rained like an hour before
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u/Saturn_Neo 11d ago
The Aurora has been more active over the last couple of days, allowing some places to see it that don't normally.
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u/Astromike23 11d ago
The Aurora has been more active over the last couple of days
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u/DerpyOwlofParadise 10d ago
Yes, and depending on latitude even a kp of 3 can give beautiful bright auroras. I have even seen them at 4.66kp from Washington state. 4kp would still work to see some far greens
Solar wind matters more
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u/Astromike23 10d ago
Solar wind matters more
You get that Kp depends on the solar wind, and that it's actually a measurement of our magnetosphere's response to that solar wind, yeah?
It is also much more predictive of the visibility of aurorae than just the solar wind. You can have an incredibly strong, dense, hot solar wind...but so long as the interplanetary magnetic field is directed north, the solar wind will still flow around the Earth's magnetosheath like a stone in a stream, generating no aurorae.
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u/DerpyOwlofParadise 9d ago
Without a CME we have no elevated KP and solar wind won’t matter; if we have elevated KP solar wind is all that matters.
So idk, you kinda said what i said… I don’t disagree with you
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u/NachoNachoDan 9d ago
I wish I could post photos here. Just last week I took pics of the Aurora at kp of 4 and an hour or so later kp of 5. Both have some great colors
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u/Budget-Charity-7952 10d ago
Kp is the worst way to measure aurora activity.
Solar Wind, along with Bz, BT, and Hemispheric power are much more accurate.
Last night it was Kp3, yet aurora was clearly visible on camera
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u/weathercat4 10d ago
It's enough that it's possible for it to appear like that in the northern states.
It looks very aurora like to me, but impossible to say without knowing where it was taken.
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u/Purple_Research6378 6d ago
If you live in Oklahoma city, or the outskirts. This would be paycom. Fuck paycom.
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u/RogBoArt 11d ago
Where are you located? I was able to see some aurora last night though I was seeing a lot more red than this.
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u/idialedyournumber 10d ago
The netherlands ! There was also a slight bit of red in the exact opposite direction
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u/SeredW 10d ago
The red is a clue it's indeed Aurora. It was announced that there was a chance for 'noorderlicht', in Dutch media: https://www.weeronline.nl/nieuws/23-3-2025-vannacht-kans-op-noorderlicht
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u/HairySock6385 11d ago
Aurora borealis most likely. It’s just that there’s enough light pollution to where you can’t make them out, but can see some faint light coming off them through the light pollution is enough to make a glow.
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u/TheMidlander 10d ago
There's been active Aurora in the northern hemisphere for the past 2 days. That would be my first guess
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u/Botched_Euthanasia 10d ago
maybe this? https://theconversation.com/beautiful-green-airglow-spotted-by-aurora-hunters-but-what-is-it-68188
i see it too, here in ohio in the u.s.
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u/DerpyOwlofParadise 10d ago
Impossible to answer. I can’t even tell if it’s cloudy. Both distant northern lights and city lights can cause this.
Where are you located- at least, what latitude? Are there greenhouses in your area? Was the cloud cover thin or thick?
I’m leaning toward Aurora
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u/vorrion 11d ago
Could just be light pollution from a nearby city, sports fields or green houses