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Published: 2006-08-27 06:27:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 11663; Favourites: 330; Downloads: 98
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An M7-class solar flare from Sunspot 696 hurled a coronal mass ejection toward Earth that sparked extremely bright aurora borealis over much of North America during the early morning hours of November 8, 2004. This shot is actually facing east-southeast, rather than north.Model: me.
Location of photograph: [link]
Special thanks to for featuring this shot in his journal on September 4, 2006.
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Comments: 119
Wowsers! This is amazing. One of the most eye catching and original shots I have seen here in a while, well done.
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You have been featured!!!
[link]
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The idea and the phenomenon is great. Eventhough I think you played a lot with photoshop on the channel mix. There's lots of red used here and It can be noticed on the model and on the plants.
Good job anyway.
yours, Alex
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I am very jeaolous that you have a better chance of seeing the aurora borealis from where you live than I do in south east NY
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wow... This is so wonderfull, it doesn't even look realistic... You know, like you pasted the sky in it with PS.
It's weird to see the plains and yourself bathing in golden sunlight, while the sky is looking like 3 AM "outdoor disco lights night"
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Thanks. And we can thank the back of a highway convenience store for the lighting. No sun required.
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that is absolutely BEAUTIFUL...great work...
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WOW!!! It's a dream of mine to see the northern lights one day!! This shot is beautiful!
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This is one of the best aurora borealis shots I have ever seen. Great capture!!
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just makes u feel about as big as a grain of sand when u see the scale of things like this. incredible shot man, you're a lucky guy to have witnessed and captured such a spectacle!
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15 sec exposure was enough to get this light? man i was trying with our northern lights once and my pics turned out horrible 
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15 seconds was actually the most my camera would allow at the time, but they were so bright that night that it didn't matter.
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just gorgeous.. i've only seen them twice with colours other than green and white.. i just love when the purply colour comes in 
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I really like the pic but it is super pixelated, so that is what ruins the pic for me, but it really is astounding to experience something like this, what a rarity!
Man, you been holding out on us for two years?!
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Yeah, it might be a bit pixellated in some spots due to the filtering process I used to remove all the noise. And I had this shot up on my old account at [link] , but I took most of the shots down from there to post better versions on here.
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Oh, ok, just wondering...
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Smart work including the good looking model.....he gives scale and a view point to the great natural spectacle
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That's on my list of things to do before I die.
Amazing capture.
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i wish i could see it face-to-face, but thank you for letting me have an experience of it (:
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Amazing sight. I would love to see one.
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Wow, a very beautiful capture. You were lucky to be able to see it!
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That's really stunning, must have been incredible too see first hand. I would have thought you'd need to go to arctic to see something as impressive as that. great photo.
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Thank you. And you can see the northern lights from as far south as California, it's just a matter of knowing when to look.
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I'm N 55 or so and I never see them, and regularly miss them when it's supposedley possible. Must be clearer in America or something like that.
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