August 4, 2010 By Danielle Signor 3 Comments

Perseid Aurora

Credit & Copyright: Jimmy Westlake (Colorado Mountain College)

The Perseid meteor shower is my favorite astronomical event of the year, and one I look forward to all summer. I have fond childhood memories of staring at the skies with my parents, out on the back lawn. On this funky old chocolate/ivory zebra-striped blanket. The things you remember. [shrug]

Anyway, the image above is doubly neat, in that it is a Perseid seen against auroral glow in Colorado, taken in August 2000. Since anybody north of me (pretty much) has just seen a whopper of a geomagnetic storm, it seemed appropriate. And speaking of last night’s storm, I conclude with this beautiful shot from Denmark:

Aurora in Denmark (56 deg.)- not every day. Photo credit: Jesper Grønne.

Photo credit: Jesper Grønne, Denmark

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Beth says:

August 4, 2010 at 8:15 am

I’m so mad; I stayed up for a big chunk of the night and we had nothing. I was outside of the city, looking north, clear skies… and there was nothing. Stupid aurora. :(

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Danielle says:

August 4, 2010 at 8:49 am

Aww, that stinks! I thought for sure you’d see something. :(

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