Comments on: Aurora, in the pink

By: Unfurled Aurora - Phil Plait - BlogDogIt

Unfurled Aurora - Phil Plait - BlogDogIt — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 22:47:58 +0000

[...] know, right? That spiral shape is fascinating. Aurorae are formed when charged particles from the Sun slam into the Earth’s magnetic field and interact with [...]

By: News and links for late June & early July « The Outer Hoard

News and links for late June & early July « The Outer Hoard — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:49:19 +0000

[...] Lovely photograph of aurora over lake. [...]

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Aurora, en rosa [ENG] — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:33:46 +0000

[...] "CRITEO-300×250", 300, 250); 1 meneos Aurora, en rosa [ENG] blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/06/18/aurora… por auroraboreal hace [...]

By: Joseph G

Joseph G — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:46:11 +0000

Thanks for that informative link, Dr. Plait! I’d always wondered how exactly aurora can display those different colors. I mean, I’d heard that oxygen and nitrogen produce different colors, but I never understood why they didn’t all simply blend together. I never found an explanation of aurora that actually explained that.

Oh yeah, pretty picture too

By: r.

r. — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:21:05 +0000

i love the purple pinkness of it!

By: Kumar

Kumar — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 01:59:30 +0000

On a somewhat different note, Goldpaint is an AWESOME name for a photographer.

By: Marina Stern

Marina Stern — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:37:30 +0000

I’m jealous. I’m hundreds of miles north of Crater Lake, but socked in with heavy cloud cover. The best I’ve gotten was a faint red glow on the northern horizon, following a solar storm last year.

By: NeilNZ

NeilNZ — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:34:01 +0000

Video and still pictures of Aurora Australis display in New Zealand.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10813785

By: Electro

Electro — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:48:36 +0000

Bob Olsen,
Of the zillions of aurorae I have watched from Ft McMurray, I remember one from the mid eighties that was a brilliant pink, blue and green in defined bands with very active motion patterns.
Many folks in town were talking about it the next day but I have never seen anything even approaching it since.
It also seemed unusual to me for being directly overhead rather than on the horizons, and for the amount of sky it covered.

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 21:54:19 +0000

It’s going back a long time for me, but I believe our perception of pink is essentially “!green” much like white is the perception when we see all colours mixed, pink is “all colours except green”