Northern lights caused by solar flare captured by astronomer

Northern lights caused by solar flare captured by astronomer, Western Europe and North America were treated to the beautiful Northern Lights or aurora borealis during the winter months. However, many may have been unaware of the flares that caused a solar storm which ignited a light show as a result of the flares erupting from the Sun.Northern lights caused by solar flare captured by astronomerWestern Europe and North America were treated to the beautiful Northern Lights or aurora borealis during the winter months. However, many may have been unaware of the flares that caused a solar storm which ignited a light show as a result of the flares erupting from the Sun.

During the eruption from sunspot AR3697, astronomer Andrew McCarthy was able to capture the event on video.

There is no doubt that the sun is one of the most fascinating celestial objects, not only because it changes shape from day to day, but also because it is filled with exciting events such as flares and coronal mass ejections. You will never run out of things to look at! There is always something interesting to see.

Due to the interaction between the sunspot’s emissions of charged particles and the Earth’s magnetic field, the sunspot generated northern lights in the Northern Hemisphere as a result of its emissions of charged particles. Also known as a solar storm, it was a solar storm that hit Earth with the intensity of a category 5 storm last month.

The sunspot has a history of being highly active, with the sunspot producing a number of flares, CMEs, and other solar events that will be exciting to capture and follow,” McCarthy said.

That’s awesome! Those auroras that occurred a few weeks back are the same ones that are occurring now. Now that it has completed its rotation around the back of the sun, it is all set to cause havoc once more! There are a lot of things that have happened since yesterday’s X-class flare.

As he explained in his explanation of the video, the view through my telescope is naturally red, however, due to the nature of the highly filtered light I had to use a monochrome camera in order to capture the image, so colour has been added later on in.

McCarthy is confident he can capture the footage with a timelapse camera in a few seconds. However, after years of experience, he has learned how to do it effectively, and that is where he credits his experience. 

As the solar activity reaches its maximum, also known as a solar maximum, in the coming days, we are likely to see a number of such storms and aurora borealis.

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