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April 5, 2012 Auroras

Grand Rapids, MN

I started out in the evening looking to do a time lapse of the moonlit bottom of Pokegama Lake, but then the auroras came out at Bz tipped south.

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The auroras start to come out on Pokegama Lake, but it's late, and I need to get home.
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I start to head home, but on County Road 17, they brighten up.
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Back at home in town (with the city lights), the show continues. Compare this shot to one taken a week later in 2013.
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This is looking north across the Mississippi River at Blandin Reservoir.

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