Northern Lights – S. Pole Camera
November 13th, 2012 at 11:10 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather
UPDATE: No repeat tonight, the kp index is at 1. First picture of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) taken around 10:15 PM Tuesday night at Millennium Park on the SW side of G.R. by Pete Mumbower. Second picture is from Randy DeKilder in Hickory Corners. Click the pictures to enlarge. If you look here at spaceweather.com, you can scroll down on the left side and see the kp index. If that’s a 5 you might be able to see them faintly to the north with a naked eye away from city lights. It’s at a 6 as I write this at 11:20 PM. Check out the NOAA Aurora Page and also this page. Here’s another site to check out. Check out this picture of the Northern Lights from Monday in Lulea, Sweden. More images here. An interplanetary shock wave (probably the leading edge of a Coronal Mass Ejection) hit Earth’s magnetic field on Monday at approximately 7 PM EST.
Also, check out the live picture from the South Pole.
Very Nice ! !!!! Sweet !!!! Thanks Peter Mumbower !!!!!
Very cool. Thank you, President Obama!
LOL! You must be referring to El Presidente…….the one with “no Clothes”
Just came in from outside. Looks about like the picture above, nothing great but at least something. Hopefully they come further south yet tonight!
Thats a long way to come from the south pole man
Just picked up a few items at D&W this evening (1115pm) in Williamston and pulled into the drive way to notice the greenish glow to the north, with a few thiner grenish vertical streams of light. I was guessing it could be the Northern Lights, but it could have been ice crystals also.
Bryan Johnson
Activity has jumped quite a bit. Those Newaygo and north should be having a pretty good show right now.
Just got back home from Pere Marquette in Muskegon. After waiting about 30 minutes it finally put on a show. Had some very nice color, and streaking to it. Was my first time seeing the Northern lights, It was well worth staying up, and going out in the freezing cold!!
When can i see it i am in howell, mi. And kp will be 7.33 in 40 minutes.really would be cool
What direction to look for northern lights is best.just north or north west.or in sky more. It was 7.33 now. A 7 and didnt see nothing. Maybe next time.i am a avid checker
Darn…..wish I would have known. Any chance of seeing them tonight?
Will we see them tonight?
When they mentioned seeing the Northern Lights on the 11 PM news – I looked out my window, but had a bank of clouds to the NW and nothing more exciting than that
I ALWAYS look up when letting the dogs out, (just in case) – must have had poor timing last night.
Here are a couple of images I captured over Cranberry Lake in Ottawa County – http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Stacy-Niedzwiecki-IMG_9207_16x8_web_1352928101.jpg
Thanks, Stacy N. Beautiful Pictures… God Bless You !
Thank you Jack – my pleasure. Always fun to chase the aurora!
Very nice work, Stacy!
Great work Stacy. Framing and foreground is excellent.
Never saw the lights in my life, I always keep looking. Very impressive photos.
Thanks, everyone!
Starting to hear buzz about the arrival of winter right around the beginning of December. Bring it on!
We can only hope, however I will only believe it when I actually see it and when the pattern actually changes to winter pattern!
Models keep jumping back and forth but thats usually a sign somethings going to change but to what who knows.
Hey Bill, Long time no post. Timelapse here: This one ran partly overnight while I was sleeping and just got around to posting it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRCVtU1KeMI
Thanks For Sharing !! Michael G. Great Stufff ,!, I live G.R There was Toooo Much Light Pollution Here !,, Peace..
Somebody had a busy night!
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HA! Funny! But this is funnier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZMafGzDJdo
The man could deliver a line, that’s for sure!
No northern lights tonight I presume?
Good Presumtion..Travis..Read UPDATE,,,,,,!!! Top of THREAD…..
He just updated that, thank you =P I read there may be more tomorrow night or early December.
Thanks for the heads up on Tuesday’s 11 o’clock news. I drove north up 131 to a little north of Big Rapids and experienced a great show. Got home about 5:00am but it was well worth it.
And thanks to Pete for the pic. and the heads-up.