![]() Like most photographers who shoot the lights, he was reluctant to share his viewing spot because hordes of cars mean headlights that can impede the show. "It started off faint and then it just absolutely exploded overhead and on the horizon." "You could even see it with the naked eye," he said, which isn't always possible. He never took his telescope out of the car, the lights from the aurora were so bright.ĭuluth photographer and gallery owner Ryan Tischer headed up the North Shore to capture the aurora, the best display he's seen in two decades shooting them. "Finally, I laid down on the ground and looked up," King said, and thought, "who am I, what is this? It was one of those moments. Rays stretched "taffy-like" and flashed in "hundreds" of variations, in the sort of display he's only seen a handful of times. "It evolved into a coronal display where all the rays gathered together to point upwards and meet in these crazy shapes: spiders, snakes and eagles," King said. The array filled the southern sky early on, covering the constellation of Orion, King said. He moved around to a couple of his favorite viewing spots north of Duluth, finally calling it quits at 2:30 a.m., though the lights were still strong. King had been monitoring auroral maps and predictions and knew it could be a big display, he said, and indeed it was, lasting into the wee hours of the morning. In Duluth, the show began at twilight, about 8:15 p.m., much earlier than typical. ![]() ![]() The lights were strongest in parts of the upper Midwest, such as northern Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, but could be seen as far south as Iowa, King said. The northern lights show could be seen across the northern tier of the United States, with photos from longtime aurora chasers and new ones overtaking social media feeds. "You couldn't take your eyes off of it," said Bob King, a Duluth resident and author of several astronomy books, including "Night Sky with the Naked Eye." "It was like an arsonist was going around with gasoline and setting things aflame." The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a Geomagnetic Storm Warning and expect North America to see the greatest effects on Thursday but warns impacts could linger for a couple of days.DULUTH - Northern Minnesota was at the epicenter of a rare aurora borealis display Thursday night that was so explosive it made one amateur astronomer weep. “It was just a spectacular night.” Geomagnetic stormĪ solar storm impacting Earth is expected to briefly interrupt some communications and put on a dazzling display of the northern lights from coast to coast through Friday. Odyssey Resorts Minnesota resident John Stain eagerly grabbed his cameras hoping to capture the solar storm. The northern lights and storms filled with lightening in Minnesota on Wednesday evening. He says he always waits for the opportunity to see the Northern Lights but said last night was what he has been waiting for. “It flared up pretty good before the moonlight came up and kind of washed it out,” Thain said. “It was still pretty cloudy, but then the clouds lifted, and it was lightning everywhere,” he said.Īfter about a half hour, the fog dissipated, and that’s when he started to see the colors of the Northern Lights dance across the sky. Thain then headed to White Pine Lake but was met with clouds and storms along the horizon. “It was pretty foggy everywhere on Lake Superior, so I went a little bit further inland,” Thain said. New USPS Forever stamps showcase marine wildlife and ecosystemsĪ solar storm impacting Earth and storms filled with lightning provided quite the site in northern Minnesota on Wednesday evening.Īfter hearing of the potential to see the northern lights, John Thain grabbed his cameras and headed out to capture it. Giant moth alert: ‘This is a ‘gee-whiz’ insect’
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