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Multicolored aurora borealis pillar over Brastad
2024-08-12
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Multicolored aurora borealis, northern lights over Brastad, Lysekil Municipality, Sweden. Photo taken from Tuntorp. Sometimes you are lucky enough to get these tall pillars stabbing down from the sky. They usually don’t last more than a minute or two, and you need to keep your head on a swivel on such nights because they pop up in random sections of the sky, almost like they are taunting you. These pillars that are hundreds of kilometers high (reaching the altitudes where satellites are ), are easier to see down at my latitude than up at the Polar circle, since we see them from the side and people further up north get a worm’s eye view of them from below. I don’t think this is a STEVE, since those tend to be even longer. There might be a couple of proto-STEVEs in the pillar since the white-ish light lingered longer than the pillar, but they are very insignificant.
