Northern Lights in Door County Wisconsin, August 3rd 2010

August 3rd created a rare opportunity to see the northern lights bathe the sky in their eerie glow of pale green. The lights are normally only visible in far northern latitudes, but a surge of activity from the sun pushed them far enough south that they were visible in Door County Wisconsin, just south of Egg Harbor.

Aurora Borealis, also known as northern lights are a rare visible manifestation of space weather, the currents of matter and energy that roil above the earth's lower atmosphere. Natural light displays in the sky usually observed at night, particularly in the polar religions. These lights are caused by solar wind which can gust at speeds up to thousands of kilometers per second. When these winds push against the earth's magnetic field, the result is a geomagnetic storm that appears to us as an aurora — arcs, sheets, or rippled filaments of light. The recent storm was created by an enormous blast from the sun called a coronal mass ejection. This is what made for the beautiful displays you see in the video.

For the camera techno geeks I was using a Nikon D90 with a 18-105mm lens at f4.5. Shutter speed was 30 seconds and ISO was 400.

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• august 3
• 2010

[Phosphorus16]

That's awesome man, this should have a lot more views! And the song is nice too.

[brian60093]

@Phosphorus16 Thank you. YouTube is strange about the number of views. I would have thought by now I would have had more hits..... I did have a video up for two years and in the last six months, it became very popular.

[lexxman1]

can i borrow some sugar?

[pfoe4215]

Just saw them last weekend on the night of the 4th of july, out of Gills Rock, and Washington island. It was pretty cool to see.

[silverestor]

The pics are nice, but I love the piano piece. Who is it?

[amyntazoe]

This was not a good thing. You don't want to see this in more then 1 place on the earth.

[waapshke]

That is alot of gas you see in the sky we up north don't get no more northern lights ...that's what your seeing Northern lights lighting up a gas filled atmosphere with northern lights going through. them that is why u see green ...Where is the yellow red blue and purple skies ...hmmm maybe the electric car would of made the difference...