Aurorae Archives - Astrodoc: Astrophotography by Ron Brecher https://astrodoc.ca/category/aurorae/ Astrodoc.ca - Images of the Universe Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:17:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 The Northern Lights https://astrodoc.ca/northern-lights/ https://astrodoc.ca/northern-lights/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:13:55 +0000 http://astrodoc.ca/?p=7688 The Northern Lights Click images for full size versions September 12, 2014  -- HAPPY ANNIVERSARY GAIL! The northern lights occur when charged particles from the sun collide with atoms of gas in Earth's atmosphere.  This display happened just after a solar maximum, in 2004.  You can see Orion rising above my house in the eastern sky.  The [...]

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