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Near Sand Point. It connect to the North Country Trail, which runs through the entirety of Pictured Rocks.
In Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. This is the point where the South Bay opens up to Lake Superior.
The very sandy soil had a surprising amount of colorful plant life on it in Pictured Rocks. There was light colored lichen (I believe reindeer lichen- aka reindeer moss) all over the place.
It was just warm enough to be able to leave the door open. We listened to the river while eating lunch.
Along the Sturgeon River in the Hiawatha National Forest.
We stopped at a little turnout for lunch in the Hiawatha National Forest that was next to the Sturgeon River. Other than the occasional car going by, it was very peaceful and we had it all to ourselves.
A convergence of several bands of light in the dawn sky on October 11, 2024, over Arizona and New Mexico, at a latitude of 32° N.
– A pinkish SAR (Stable Auroral Red) arc from the massive Kp8 geomagnetic storm that night, high (~400km) up in our atmosphere. SARs are not auroras per se but are horizontally flowing currents generated by the intense magnetic storms that also create auroras.
– A bluish-white pyramid of light rising up from the eastern sunrise point, the Zodiacal Light, from sunlight reflecting off dust in the inner solar system (so not in our atmosphere). Leo is rising amid the Zodiacal Light.
– And the winter Milky Way at right through Canis Major and Puppis. Sirius is the bright star at upper right.
– Mysteriously, there is also a subtle streak to the right of the Zodiacal Light that is in the right location and angle to be the long dust tail of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3). But it is mixed in with some other airglow tints or what might be aurora fragments, so is hard to say if this is the tail of the comet. Maybe!
Technical:
This is a stack of 4 x 1 minute exposures with the RF15-35mm lens at 15mm and f/2.8 on the Canon R5 at ISO 1600. It was tracking the sky on the MSM Nomad tracker, thus the blurred ground. Taken October 11, 2024 at about 6 am MDT (5 am MST Arizona time), from the Quailway Cottage between Rodeo, New Mexico and Portal, Arizona. This is looking east toward New Mexico.
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This is a 360° panorama extending up to the zenith capturing a rare SAR (Stable Auroral Red) arc across the Arizona sky in the pre-dawn hours of October 11, 2024. The SAR arc was generated in the high atmosphere as part of the global geomagnetic storm of October 10/11, 2024 with a Kp8 rating that night.
This is rare in that from this latitude of 32° N in southern Arizona it is unusual to get any activity from an aurora storm. But this was a very active night with auroras widely seen around the world.
While a SAR arc is not aurora as such, it is created by highly energized "ring currents" in the magnetosphere generated during an auroral storm, creating a horizontal band of glowing oxyen that is fairly featureless and long-lasting. It was present early in the evening and was still there at 4 am this morning.
North is left of centre, so the SAR arc is across the northern sky. West is at left, east at right, and south to the far right.
Also in the panorama:
- At far left to the west is a subtle vertical band of light, the Zodiacal band, with a bright region called the Gegenschein, caused by sunlight reflecting off interplanetary dust particles in the outer solar system.
- The Milky Way, from Cassiopeia and Perseus at left, passing high overhead at top, and descending down past Orion and Canis Major at right in the south.
- At right near the SAR arc's intersection with the horizon is an area of green, which is likely airglow, not aurora, caused by chemical fluorescence in the upper atmosphere.
- At right, also near the SAR arc, and rising vertically, is the Zodiacal Light, in this direction to the east and sunrise point, created by dust particles in the inner solar system.
The SAR arc looks yellow in that direction, possibly from its red light blending with the green airglow, or there can be yellow airglow from sodium atoms glowing. The yellow along the horizon could be sodium airglow or simply dust in the air reflecting distant city lights.
The bright object at upper right is Jupiter, distorted by the panorama projection chosen to make a rectangular scene.
The location was the Quailway Cottage, between Portal, Arizona and Rodeo, New Mexico. The mountains at left are the Chiricahuas in Arizona; the distant peaks at right are the Pelloncillos in New Mexico.
Technical:
This is a 360° panorama of 12 segments, each 30 seconds at f/2.8 with the Canon RF15-35mm lens and Canon R5 at ISO 3200, turned to portrait orientation to take in the sky from horizon to zenith. The camera was tracking the sky on the MSM Nomad tracker, so the ground is blurred somewhat. Segments were processed in Adobe Camera Raw and stitched with PTGui with Equirectangular projection. The projection greatly distorts the area of sky at the zenith, as it spreads out and stretches the sky at top.
The original is 21,400 pixels wide.
This is a vertical panorama extending from horizon to zenith framing a convergence of several bands of light in the dawn sky on October 11, 2024, over Arizona and New Mexico, at a latitude of 32° N.
– A reddish SAR (Stable Auroral Red) arc from the massive Kp8 geomagnetic storm that night, up high (~400km) in our atmosphere. SARs are not auroras per se but are horizontally flowing currents generated by the intense magnetic storms that also create auroras.
– A white band of light rising up diagonally from the eastern sunrise point, the Zodiacal Light, created by sunlight reflecting off dust in the inner solar system (so not in our atmosphere). Leo is rising amid the Zodiacal Light.
– The Zodiacal Light intersects above centre with the winter Milky Way, running down from Perseus at top, through Taurus, and past Orion through Canis Major and Puppis. Sirius is the bright star at lower right. Jupiter in Taurus is the bright object above centre at the intersection of the Zodiacal Light and Milky Way. Mars is the reddish object in Gemini below and to the left of Jupiter. Both sit in the Zodiacal Light as they all lie along the ecliptic plane of the solar system.
– Airglow adds green and yellow tints to the sky.
And I left the satellite trails in — there are several down low where they are beginning to catch the light of the soon-to-be rising Sun.
Technical:
This is a panorama of 5 segments, each a 1 minute exposure with the RF15-35mm lens at 15mm and f/2.8 on the Canon R5 at ISO 1600. It was tracking the sky on the MSM Nomad tracker, thus the blurred ground. Stitched with Adobe Camera Raw.
Taken October 11, 2024 at about 5 am MDT (4 am MST Arizona time), from the Quailway Cottage between Rodeo, New Mexico and Portal, Arizona. This is looking east toward New Mexico.
Very hard to believe these were once so common, and that this might be my last shot of one of them...
Soo Line GP38-2 4412 is tied down for the weekend at Davis Junction, IL. No doubt tomorrow morning she will be back at work on a local freight.
The G2 auroral storm of October 11/12, 2021 looking south to a dim red arc (a SAR arc likely) that appeared for a few minutes associated with green blobs. This was from home in southern Alberta. The green areas were visible to the unaided eye but the red SAR arc was not; only the camera picked it up.
This is with the TT Artisan circular 7.5mm full-frame fish-eye lens at f/2, on the Canon R6 at ISO 2000 for 13 seconds.
The G2 auroral storm of October 11/12, 2021 with the curtains exhibiting red tops from high-altitude oxygen. This was from home in southern Alberta.
This is with the TT Artisan circular 7.5mm fish-eye lens at f/2, on the Canon R6 at ISO 1600 for 13 seconds.
This is Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) emerging into the evening sky and low in the twilight, on October 11, 2024. The location was along Highway US 80 north of Rodeo and Animas, New Mexico, looking west toward the desert mountains in Arizona, north of the Chiricahuas.
The comet was not naked eye, but was easy in binoculars if you knew just where to look. And it looked much like this, with a fuzzy head and short stubby taii.
This is a single 1-second exposure, untracked, with the RF135mm lens at f/2.8 on the Canon R5 at ISO 100.
He it is who weaves the web of this maya in evanescent hues of gold and silver, blue and green, and lets peep out through the folds his feet, at whose touch I forget myself.
Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a rapture of joy and of sorrow.
-Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Laureate Indian Poet -1864-1940 ) from 'Gitanjali '
This is a 360° panorama covering the entire sky and extending up to the zenith at centre, capturing a rare SAR (Stable Auroral Red) arc across the Arizona sky in the pre-dawn hours of October 11, 2024. The SAR arc was generated in the high atmosphere as part of the global geomagnetic storm of October 10/11, 2024 with a Kp8 rating that night.
This is rare in that from this latitude of 32° N in southern Arizona it is unusual to get any activity from an aurora storm. But this was a very active night with auroras widely seen around the world.
While a SAR arc is not aurora as such, it is created by highly energized "ring currents" in the magnetosphere generated during an auroral storm, creating a horizontal band of glowing oxyen that is fairly featureless and long-lasting. It was present early in the evening and was still there at 4 am this morning.
North is at bottom with Polaris and the two Dippers above the nortnern horizon, so the SAR arc is across the northern sky. West is at left, east at right, and south is at top, with Orion .
Also in the panorama are two other intersecting bands of light crossing the sky:
- Zodiacal Band and Light:
At left to the west is a subtle vertical band of light, the Zodiacal band, with a bright region called the Gegenschein, caused by sunlight reflecting off interplanetary dust particles opposite the Sun in the outer solar system. It extends across the sky horizontally here from west to east, to meet up with the pre-dawn Zodiacal Light in the east at right.
- The Milky Way:
It is crossing the sky, from Cassiopeia and Perseus from bottom left, passing high overhead at centre, and descending down past Orion and Canis Major at upper right in the southeast. Sirius is the bright star at upper right, with Canopus just peaking above the horizon at top. At centre at the zenith we are looking toward the outer edge of our Galaxy in Perseus and Taurus.
- In addition, at right in the east near the SAR arc's intersection with the horizon is an area of green, which is likely airglow, not aurora, caused by chemical fluorescence in the upper atmosphere.
The SAR arc looks yellow in that direction, possibly from its red light blending with the green airglow, or there can be yellow airglow from sodium atoms glowing. The yellow along the horizon could be sodium airglow or simply dust in the air reflecting distant city lights.
The bright object at near the zenith is Jupiter.
The location was the Quailway Cottage, between Portal, Arizona and Rodeo, New Mexico. The mountains at left are the Chiricahuas in Arizona; the distant peaks at right are the Pelloncillos in New Mexico.
Technical:
This is a 360° panorama of 12 segments, each 30 seconds at f/2.8 with the Canon RF15-35mm lens and Canon R5 at ISO 3200, turned to portrait orientation to take in the sky from horizon to zenith. The camera was tracking the sky on the MSM Nomad tracker, so the ground is blurred somewhat. Segments were processed in Adobe Camera Raw and stitched with PTGui with Spherical projection, to create a fish-eye scene with the horizon all around and the zenith at centre.
The original is 11,800 pixels wide.