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© Vic Winter, ICSTARS
Ranch, Northwest of Warrensburg, Missouri, USA - Dec. 14, 2006
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The Northern Lights made a brief appearance over the ICSTARS Ranch located
northwest of Warrensburg, Missouri early in the evening on December 14,
2006. Starting with a few bright white spikes in the north, northeast,
the northern sky quickly was turned deep green near the horizon and bright
columns of red and purple rose and fell under Polaris.
© Ragnar Johnskas, Ringsaker, NORWAY. - Dec. 15,
2006
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© Ragnar Johnskas, Ringsaker, NORWAY. - Dec. 15,
2006
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It was a fantastic night for watching aurora, with beautiful shapes
and patterns. At some time it was pulsating. |
© Vesa Särkelä, Kemijärvi, Finland
- Dec. 8, 2006
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© Vesa Särkelä, Kemijärvi, Finland
- Dec. 8, 2006
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Full moon painting the ground and aurora coloring the sky. |
© Stan Richard, Saylorville Lake north of
Des Moines, IA - Dec. 14, 2006
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A beautiful display last evening, lots of movement and
pulsations, nice flowing curtains and some beautiful red beams, faded out
after about 1.5 hrs. |
© Albert Jakobsson,
Nesjavellir, outside Reykjavik, Iceland - Dec. 14, 2006
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Clear sky and extremely bright auroras outside Reykjavik put on a show. |
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Intense green and pink auroras covering all of the sky during peak activity.
Especially early in the evening there were also red and blue aurora, although
mostly invisible to the naked eye. |
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Skies cleared out for the most part in Scottsbluff, NE on Thursday night
to help see a descent display of the Northern Lights. The first set of
aurora photos were taken about 20 miles north of Scottsbluff, NE (around
9:30pm MT). The second set of aurora photos were taken between 11pm - 1:30am
MT, around Scottsbluff National Monument. The colors consisted of a green
glow along the horizon with a redish/purplish glow above with streaks shooting
upwards. For a while the aurora subsided but then it started up again with
some nice focused streaks upward. Finally, auroras in Nebraska again! |
© Bernd Kaifler, Tromso,
Norway - Dec. 14, 2006
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