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Compared to many other spectacular pictures of the geomagnetic storm on 28 may, this picture may seem boring. But there is one curious fact: it was made in California.
"I saw the warning about the magnetic storm at 23:00, says photographer Dan McBride. — When the K-index reached 7, I left his house and went to the helipad to Big Hill Lookout, West of lake Tahoe. The glow was subtle, but after the first test picture I realized that I had caught the purple pillars of California at latitude 38.8 degrees."
Polar lights in California are rare and remarkable. They can be seen with the naked eye, usually only a few times per decade. Lights 28 may be special because solar activity is currently committed to minimum. Although sunspots are scarce, but the flash is weak, it does not hurt to break out a strong geomagnetic storm. The coronal mass ejection caused the Aurora over California this weekend, was thrown to the Ground, seemingly insignificant magnetic restructuring in the solar atmosphere.
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