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Harvest Aurora Panorama 2 (Oct 7, 2018).jpg

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A panorama of the Northern Lights along my northern horizon from home in southern Alberta, on October 7/8, 2018, Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. After much weather delay the harvest was in fact in progress this night, thus the lights from combines and trucks to the north at left. The canola field where I am standing was harvested just that afternoon.

The predictions were for a Kp5 to 6 display, but it seemed lower at Kp4 and never became more than a horizon arc with little activity from my location. Sites in far northern Alberta and the NWT saw a great display.

Capella and the Pleiades are rising at right. The Big Dipper is low in the northwest at left.

The oddity here is a blob of white that moved from east to west in the few minutes it was visible, at the end of what looks like a separate faint arc. It’s hard to say if this was anything related to the STEVE arc phenomenon.

This is a stitch of 6 segments, each with the 24mm Sigma Art lens at f/4, and Nikon D750 at ISO 1600, for 30 seconds each. Stitched with Adobe Camera Raw.
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A panorama of the Northern Lights along my northern horizon from home in southern Alberta, on October 7/8, 2018, Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. After much weather delay the harvest was in fact in progress this night, thus the lights from combines and trucks to the north at left. The canola field where I am standing was harvested just that afternoon. <br />
<br />
The predictions were for a Kp5 to 6 display, but it seemed lower at Kp4 and never became more than a horizon arc with little activity from my location. Sites in far northern Alberta and the NWT saw a great display.<br />
<br />
Capella and the Pleiades are rising at right. The Big Dipper is low in the northwest at left.<br />
<br />
The oddity here is a blob of white that moved from east to west in the few minutes it was visible, at the end of what looks like a separate faint arc. It’s hard to say if this was anything related to the STEVE arc phenomenon. <br />
<br />
This is a stitch of 6 segments, each with the 24mm Sigma Art lens at f/4, and Nikon D750 at ISO 1600, for 30 seconds each. Stitched with Adobe Camera Raw.