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RED AURORAS: Auroras are usually green, and sometimes purple, but RED!!!!!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 20675367:MV8yMDUzMjMwXzM0NTIzNTkwX0U0MzlENEFE] 10 years ago when I first moved to Maine there was a massive Solar storm that unleashed an incredible Aurora. The sky was completely red and at the zenith of the sky was a blue diamond shape Absolutely incredible and I've never seen anything as brilliant since [/quote]
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RED AURORAS: Auroras are usually green, and sometimes purple, but seldom do sky watchers see much red. The geomagnetic storm of Nov. 13/14 was different. It produced auroras with a distinctly rosy hue. David E. Cartier, Sr. photographed the phenomenon near Marsh Lake, about 40 km east of Whitehorse in Canada's Yukon Territory:
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