STEVE may be just the strangest natural phenomenon you can see in the sky.
STEVE, first described in 2016 by skywatchers in Canada, can occur farther away from the poles than an aurora and is far less common. For Isaac Diener, an atmospheric photographer based on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Upper Michigan, the STEVE on Monday , was only the second he has seen so clearly in the seven years since he started observing auroras.
"You can't predict when it's gonna happen," Diener told Space.com in an email."It appears out of nowhere." Diener, who took up photography to help distract him from a chronic pain condition, had a prolific night on Monday when conventional auroras also showed up above Eagle Harbor on the Keweenaw Peninsula in what was theDiener said he uses the same equipment and settings for his shots of STEVE as he uses to take his aurora images.
"I use a Fujifilm XT-3. And the lens I use is a 16mm lens," Diener wrote."Settings I used on those STEVE pics are Aperture 1.4, 12 seconds, ISO 800." Aurora sightings on previous nights came from several regions in Canada and the northern U.S. including Yellowstone National Park, according to
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