SPACE.com Image Gallery: Northern Lights Illuminate November Skies

Northern Lights llluminate November Skies

The Autumn Sky

Intense Solar Storms produced one of the most spectacular Northern Lights shows on November 7, 2004. Auroras could be seen as far south as Oklahoma and California in the United States. Here is a gallery with some great shots from the event. Dennis Mammana took the picture above in Borrego Springs, California, USA, on Nov. 7. He writes, “The rain ended and the clouds began breaking just before midnight and, though the aurora appeared to the eye only as a dim grayish haze, it showed up photographically as red.” The picture was taken with a Canon 10D with 24mm f/1.4L lens; ISO 400, f/1.4, 30 seconds. Click to enlarge.

Dennis Mammana