Aurora Hunting – Part 2
A spectacular aurora borealis this far south is such a unique event that I think it deserves the extra coverage—yesterday's blip was shot at 23:45, and this one today is a little bit later, at 3 minutes past midnight!
Gabriel and I had found a tractor trail heading into a large rapeseed field which allowed us to get a better view. I set up my tripod, and we spent a happy half hour taking numerous shots of the vivid purple and green ripples across the sky – light produced by countless charged particles slamming into the upper atmosphere at 300 miles per second!
Later, I took a few shots of Gabriel out in the field so he could post them on his socials. The universe was not done with us, it seems. To top it all off, just as we were about to go indoors, we saw a vivid meteor trail shoot across the sky above our house.
