Posted on Feb 13, 2022
APOD: 2022 February 12 - Aurora by Moonlight
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Good afternoon, Rallypoint, and welcome to an Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) two-fer. The first is February 12th's "Aurora by Moonlight." Captured north of Stockholm, Sweden this past Thursday night (Feb. 10th), a waxing gibbous Moon casts shadows on a frozen lake as the aurora shine overhead. Bundle up and enjoy.
APOD: 2022 February 12 - Aurora by Moonlight
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Thank you my space-exploration advocate friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the February 12th Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD): ‘Aurora by Moonlight.’
Image: Aurora by Moonlight.
Explanation: The ice was singing as light from a bright gibbous Moon cast shadows across this frozen lake, about 20 kilometers north of Stockholm, Sweden, planet Earth. In the alluring night skyscape captured on February 10, shimmering auroral curtains of light dance in the evening sky. On that northern night nature's performance included the auroral displays fostered by a minor geomagnetic storm. Stormy space weather was the result of a coronal mass ejection, erupting from a solar prominence days earlier and brushing our fair planet's magnetosphere.
Image: Aurora by Moonlight.
Explanation: The ice was singing as light from a bright gibbous Moon cast shadows across this frozen lake, about 20 kilometers north of Stockholm, Sweden, planet Earth. In the alluring night skyscape captured on February 10, shimmering auroral curtains of light dance in the evening sky. On that northern night nature's performance included the auroral displays fostered by a minor geomagnetic storm. Stormy space weather was the result of a coronal mass ejection, erupting from a solar prominence days earlier and brushing our fair planet's magnetosphere.
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