The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day • APOD: Green Aurora over Sweden (2024 May 22)

Okay, Color Commentator speaks.


And you, Göran Strand, my fellow Swede, that's another great picture from you. You have taken so many. Of all the pictures you have taken, this is my favorite:


The gibbous moon picture is from 2018, and it was the Astronomy Picture of the Day on November 19, 2018.

As for the shape of the aurora you have captured in today's APOD, it is so impressive, like a magnificent celestial portal or the most amazing set of draperies gracing the sky, like the curtains in an old theater house and the audience just waiting for the spectacle to come.

Of course, here the curtain is the spectacle. And... it's so green. About this color, ███.

So, yeah. This is a green-green aurora. The whole picture is like, █████████████████████. Except the green stuff is an arc and not a straight line.

So, yeah, this is why I rarely get excited by aurora images. They tend to be soooo gren, or soooo red, ███. Or soooo green and red, ██████. Yes, because when red and green auroras are seen together, the green aurora tends to be a yellower shade of green.

For this very reason, I have really, really liked some of the aurora pictures that have been posted recently, because they have been multicolored! Some of them have displayed hues of magenta, purple and even blue!!!


And just look at this amazing color bomb from Matthew Browne, can you believe it?


So, yeah. Today's APOD is a beautiful picture, Göran Strand, because you are indeed a great photographer.

And now I'll go and look at something else.

Ann

Statistics: Posted by Ann — Wed May 22, 2024 4:56 am — Replies 1 — Views 43

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