LATEST: The northern lights were visible near Fort Collins last night. And it’s possible there will be a repeat show tonight.
Knowing a pair of solar storms over the weekend created a good chance of seeing the northern lights on Sunday night, Michael Charnick positioned himself 15 miles north of Fort Collins in hopes of a great show. He was rewarded with what he calls the best northern lights show in northern Colorado since 2021.
“It has to be a strong event for it to be visible this far south,” said Charnick, a freelance photographer from Fort Collins who also works for the National Weather Service. “The best time to look is around what you could call solar midnight, 11 p.m. to midnight, then sometimes as late as 1 a.m. You definitely need to be far away from city lights. Even on the north end of Fort Collins, you wouldn’t have been able to see that with your naked eye.
“Naked eye, I was able to see it for maybe half an hour as a milky, greenish-whitish glow on the horizon,” Charnick said. “Those red pillars, you could see kind of faintly above that milky green glow with your eye as well. Red is a very difficult color to pick up at night with the naked eye. It slowly dawns on you what you’re looking at. A camera is going to pick up the reds much better than what your eye would.
This aurora borealis was caused by coronal mass ejections from the surface of the sun that occurred Saturday and Sunday. They were detected by instruments monitored by the Space Weather Prediction Center, an office within the National Weather Service in Boulder, which issued a geomagnetic storm alert. CMEs are ejections of electrical particles with magnetic fields which interact with the earth’s magnetic field when they arrive.
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