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The light poles in Canada

Added	Wed, 01/04/2020
Источники	gismeteo.ru
Дата публикации	Wed, 01/04/2020
Версии	Light (solar) pole

Not everything that looks like the Aurora really is the Aurora. For example, on March 28 Jocelyn Blanchett photographed dozens of colorful light pillars, which are lined up in the sky over Fairmont in the canadian province of Quebec.

Light poles (eng. Light pillar) are formed in the air with ice crystals that refract the light from public lighting in vertical columns. Red-orange hues come from sodium high-pressure lamps and modern led lamps produce a blue-white color. Unlike Aurora, this phenomenon has nothing to do with solar activity. The only ingredients are ice and light pollution.

The higher located the ice crystals, the more light poles similar to polar lights. In this photo of just such a case.

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