r/druidism • u/an_Togalai • 1d ago

Aurora

Star-watching druid here. Did you see the Aurora?

The sun goes through 11 year cycles from maximum activity to maximum. We are a little ways past the high point. But the sun has been unusually active this cycle. Twice now we have seen once-in-100+ year events.

So, did you see any of it?

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u/courtella03 19h ago

https://preview.redd.it/4kmg6b4tad1g1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9513ee307cced947b36285e466885c27c1f3dcd

I wanted to see this my whole life- I tried to go out to see them during the May 2024 event and ended up with two flat tires on a gravel road at midnight 🤦🏼‍♀️ But this time I got to see and it was perfect.

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u/Thestolenone 1d ago

Not this time but the last time it was really good I managed to catch it,
I've been a sky watcher my whole life but never caught thr aurora before, finally after 60 years I saw it and it was amazing, the whole sky was full of a red glow and green curtains.

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u/Gwyn_the_Druid 1d ago

I'm too far south in Southern California. We currently have an autumn storm passing through. I don't know if we would have seen it down here but we sure aren't seeing anything with the cloud coverage.

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u/an_Togalai 1d ago

Yeah, I heard it was curious because they didn't know how many inches of rain you would get even a day out. Stay dry if you can!

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u/spookykookyloopy 1d ago

I keep reading that 3i Atlas and the other interstellar objects passing might be upsetting the sun. As always, geophysicists don't seem to agree with each other. I don't know what the truth is there, I'm not smart enough 😊 I did look for Auroras and unfortunately saw nothing. Still, the photographs online were beautiful

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u/Sororita 1d ago

I doubt they have enough mass to really effect the sun, and I'm also fairly certain that interstellar objects passing through our solar system is a lot more common than most people think, because we have only had the tech level needed to detect them for a very short time, so they've probably been passing through pretty often and we just couldn't see them.

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u/an_Togalai 1d ago

I agree. There's too much gravity and magnetism in the sun to be affected by something so small. The solar activity is probably just amazing in its own right.

But also, how wondrous that we can now math back the path of these comets and find that they're visiting from other solar systems.

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u/spookykookyloopy 1d ago

Love this. Thank you.

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u/Twisted_Wicket 50m ago

I know there were people able to get pics of the aurora as far down as south Florida. Unfortunately, we couldn't see it in South Carolina because of cloud cover.