Oct. 25th, 2011 - Geomagnetic Storm - Seabeck, WA

Oct. 25th, 2011 - Geomagnetic Storm - Seabeck, WA

The timelapse was create by taking forty-eight 30 second exposures. I threw them in Adobe After Effects CS5.5 as a Jpeg sequence. Then used pixel blending and Twixtor to slow the 1.17 second timelapse to 10% speed and through frame interpolation digitally synthesize the missing frames. This is how much action the auroras displayed in a span of 24 minutes. It was shot around 1:30am, towards the tale end of the solar storm from Seabeck, Washington.

A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth on Oct. 24th at approximately 1800 UT (2:00 pm EDT). The impact strongly compressed Earth's magnetic field, directly exposing geosynchronous satellites to solar wind plasma, and sparked an intense geomagnetic storm. As night fell over North America, auroras spilled across the Canadian border into the contiguous United States.

Shot with a Canon 550D

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[ima69beast]

what is the song?? please!! x

[schollemedia]

@ima69beast "While the Trees Sleep" - David Nevue

[franklyre]

Great job, I posted this link to the Seabeckwa Facebook page....Thank you for sharing. We sure live in a wonderful neck of the woods.

[schollemedia]

@franklyre Thank you so much! I'm a local professional Real Estate Photographer in the area and do a lot of work in Seabeck. Washington state certainly is an amazing place. I definitely prefer capturing stuff like this over real estate, but something has to pay for the toys. :)

[pattysis1st]

kinda like this video but more red and yeah

[gilib168able]

amazing