Quarter to Four
- www.kevin-palmer.com - By 2AM the aurora had mostly retreated north. The light of dawn would start to take over at 4AM, and I wondered if it was worth staying up. But solar wind data showed that this lull was only temporary, and the aurora would soon come back. So I stayed up. While Jupiter and Mars rose higher and the final Perseid meteors fell, bright pillars shot up overhead. Purples and blues are more likely when it's close to sunrise or sunset.
Quarter to Four
- www.kevin-palmer.com - By 2AM the aurora had mostly retreated north. The light of dawn would start to take over at 4AM, and I wondered if it was worth staying up. But solar wind data showed that this lull was only temporary, and the aurora would soon come back. So I stayed up. While Jupiter and Mars rose higher and the final Perseid meteors fell, bright pillars shot up overhead. Purples and blues are more likely when it's close to sunrise or sunset.