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July 2, 2017 Auroras

Grand Rapids, MN

Solar wind conditions became favorable for auroras (high speed solar wind stream).  I was not feeling particularly energetic after a ten mile run, so I decided to stay close to home. I hopped on my bicycle and rode into the Forest History Center.  It was early July, so the fireflies were out.  They added to a couple of my photos that I took from the trail.

I continued to the entrance road where I saw a nice bank of moon-illuminated fog in the bog.  I stopped to take a couple pictures of that.

Finally, I went to the dock that looks upstream a bit toward Cohasset.  There, I watched as the auroras intensified, and a nice little substorm took place right before the moon set.

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A firefly along with a northern horizon turning green with auroas.
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Moon-illuminated fog in the bog.
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A substorm of auroras over the Mississippi River (Blandin Reservoir).
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The dock.

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