diorgrace | Glacier National Park @diorgrace | Uploaded August 2014 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
Wow, the Aurora Borealis showed up just last night. God and all his Glory. Nature's fireworks display or a pretty and colorful light show of God and angels from heaven. Really awesome!
Glacier National Park
Around 11:00pm last night the Northern Lights put on a brief but spectacular show above Lake McDonald. Here is just over an hour compressed into about 7 seconds.
This video is a series of 20 second exposures taken one every 45 seconds. The settings were f4.5, 18mm, ISO 1600. There has been no post processing of the images. In person the green was less pronounced, but the long exposure brings out more color. The bright flashes on the right and left are vehicles on the Going-to-the-Sun Road and the road to Fish Creek. (bh)
WHAT ARE NORTHERN LIGHTS?
The bright dancing lights of the aurora are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's atmosphere. The lights are seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres. They are known as 'Aurora borealis' in the north and 'Aurora australis' in the south..
Auroral displays appear in many colours although pale green and pink are the most common. Shades of red, yellow, green, blue, and violet have been reported. The lights appear in many forms from patches or scattered clouds of light to streamers, arcs, rippling curtains or shooting rays that light up the sky with an eerie glow.
WHAT CAUSES THE NORTHERN LIGHTS?
The Northern Lights are actually the result of collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles released from the sun's atmosphere. Variations in colour are due to the type of gas particles that are colliding. The most common auroral color, a pale yellowish-green, is produced by oxygen molecules located about 60 miles above the earth. Rare, all-red auroras are produced by high-altitude oxygen, at heights of up to 200 miles. Nitrogen produces blue or purplish-red aurora.
Wow, the Aurora Borealis showed up just last night. God and all his Glory. Nature's fireworks display or a pretty and colorful light show of God and angels from heaven. Really awesome!
Glacier National Park
Around 11:00pm last night the Northern Lights put on a brief but spectacular show above Lake McDonald. Here is just over an hour compressed into about 7 seconds.
This video is a series of 20 second exposures taken one every 45 seconds. The settings were f4.5, 18mm, ISO 1600. There has been no post processing of the images. In person the green was less pronounced, but the long exposure brings out more color. The bright flashes on the right and left are vehicles on the Going-to-the-Sun Road and the road to Fish Creek. (bh)
WHAT ARE NORTHERN LIGHTS?
The bright dancing lights of the aurora are actually collisions between electrically charged particles from the sun that enter the earth's atmosphere. The lights are seen above the magnetic poles of the northern and southern hemispheres. They are known as 'Aurora borealis' in the north and 'Aurora australis' in the south..
Auroral displays appear in many colours although pale green and pink are the most common. Shades of red, yellow, green, blue, and violet have been reported. The lights appear in many forms from patches or scattered clouds of light to streamers, arcs, rippling curtains or shooting rays that light up the sky with an eerie glow.
WHAT CAUSES THE NORTHERN LIGHTS?
The Northern Lights are actually the result of collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles released from the sun's atmosphere. Variations in colour are due to the type of gas particles that are colliding. The most common auroral color, a pale yellowish-green, is produced by oxygen molecules located about 60 miles above the earth. Rare, all-red auroras are produced by high-altitude oxygen, at heights of up to 200 miles. Nitrogen produces blue or purplish-red aurora.
