Check out this photo taken by Peter Cook atop Hoot Hill at the Ashokan Center.
We were treated to a heavenly display of color Thursday, Oct 10. Thursday’s Aurora Borealis was especially brilliant thanks to clear skies making for near-perfect viewing conditions, and was caused by a severe solar storm.
The northern lights, also known as aurora borealis, are a natural phenomenon that occurs when charged particles from the sun’s atmosphere collide with Earth’s upper atmosphere. The collisions produce tiny flashes of light that fill the sky with color, and billions of these flashes in sequence make the lights appear to move and dance. The lights can appear in many forms, including rippling curtains, pulsating globs, traveling pulses, or steady glows, and can be pale green, pink, red, yellow, blue, or violet.
