March 2008
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Summary: A solar wind stream hit Earth on March 26th, sparking bright auroras as far south as Oregon, Michigan and Wisconsin in the United States. See also February 2008.

 
  Photographer, Location Images Comments


Shawn Malone,
Marquette, MI USA
Mar. 27, 2008
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Nice burst of aurora activity right after dusk. I haven't seen the aurora in almost two years, it was a beautiful sight. Foreground thawing snowbanks, not the most scenic but I had to act quick to catch the aurora.


Tony Wilder,
Chippewa Falls, WI
Mar. 27, 2008
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Photo details: Canon 30D on bulb for 27 seconds at f2.8 ISO 1000 using Sigma f2.8 17mm lens on tripod at 9:30pm CST.


LeRoy Zimmerman,
Cleary Summit, about 20 miles north of Fairbanks, Alaska
Mar. 26, 2008
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This was near the midnight hour March 26th. One view is looking south towards Fairbanks, with the city light spilling up to the overhead clouds, and Orion standing near the center of the shot. That is not a sunset glow. The other view of the green aurora is facing magnetic north. Angle of view, about 150 degrees horizontal, 36 degrees vertical.

Photo details: ISO 800, 8 seconds, f/2.8. Canon 5D.


Calvin Hall,
Denali State Park, Alaska
Mar. 27, 2008
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great aurora, nice weather, owls calling, Mt. McKinley and the Alaska Range backlit by the sunset! Life is good.


Frank S. Andreassen,
Harstad, Norway
Mar. 26, 2008
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High activity starting around 21:30 local time.

Photo details: Canon EOS 1D Mark II, Canon 24mm f/1.4, 200 ASA.

Sylvain Serre,
Salluit, Nunavik, Quebec, Canada
Mar. 26, 2008
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Tonight, it was absolutely faboulous. A clear sky, a lot of friends, and a lot of northern lights.

Photo details: Canon EOS 30D, 10mm, 6-15 sec., 800 ISO, f3,5


Calvin Hall,
Knik River Valley near Palmer, Alaska.
Mar. 26, 2008
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A nice unique auroral display. For much of the display, there was a whitish looking band streaming across the sky from E to W, and I could see a hint of red fringing, and as usual, the camera could "see" it better. It flowed much more like a cloud then typical "rippleing/banding aurora, and off and on odd shaped patches of green would appear. I've never seen a display quite like it before.


Petter Hamnes,
Mo i Rana, Norway
Mar. 26, 2008
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Finally some weather fit for nighttime photography! A couple of very powerful and fast moving displays and then it went quiet an hour before midnight.

Photo details: Nikon D80, Sigma 20mm lens, 8-13s exposure at f/2.2, iso 640.


Lance Parrish,
Skiland, 20 miles NE of Fairbanks, Alaska
Mar. 26, 2008
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Nice active display for about 30 minutes. Especially quick moving directly overhead.

Photo details: Nikon D3 14-24mm f2.8-16mm f2.8 Fisheye-ISO 1600&3200 2.5-6 seconds.


Geir Øye,
Ørsta, Norway
Mar. 26, 2008
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Very nice auroras! They came as advertised on Spaceweather. Best display of the year (from this location). The entire northern sky was at times green. Various arcs and waves danced across the sky. Here are a few images.

Photo details: Canon Digital Rebel XT, 18-55 lens, RC-5, and tripod. Iso:800, exp: 20-35 sec.


Steven Elliot,
East of Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Mar. 27, 2008
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Sony A100, 18-70mm, 400 ISO.

March 27, 2008: "Over dinner a friend outside Roseburg, Oregon, called to alert me to the auroras she was seeing," reports Casey Burns. "I am down here in Coos Bay with a friend from the California Academy of Sciences doing fieldwork for our paleo research and we headed down to Cape Arago to get a dark sky. Sure enough, we could see them easily, even through the overcast. Spikey shapes that moved slowly, typical for western OR and Washington. It was poignant as my friend is from Toronto originally, now living in the San Francisco Bay area and he rarely gets to see these, except when up there visiting family."