Northern Lights & Starlink (Molly Wakeling)

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Northern Lights & Starlink

Can you believe we had the Northern Lights over Albuquerque??
When I saw my friends in Europe, and then the northern US, posting photos of the aurora, I was disappointed because I knew the chances were very slim I'd be able to see it from here. But I set up my all-sky cam to run, just in case. It started catching an odd pinkish glow, which I initially thought might just be leftover from sunset, but I snapped a photo with my DSLR to check, and BAM, there it was!!

I expected that if I ever saw aurora in Albuquerque, it would be off to the north. But this geomagnetic storm was so strong that it was overhead!! I even got some shapes! Simply incredible. I could see this one naked-eye, including the detail.

And wouldn't you believe it, while I was gawking at the aurora, the string of fast-moving lights indicative of a newly-launched Starlink train pass directly overhead! They looked very blue like they do in this picture, which was interesting.

Also, if you look closely toward the center of the image (a bit above it), there's another, dimmer satellite streak -- combing through Heavens Above, this appears to be the Russian rocket body Cosmos 2219, launched in 1992 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It was magnitude 2.3 according to the app.

What a night!!

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