Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Northern Lights battled their beauty Tatarstan and Mari El – TVNZ

The last hours of “runaway” Tuesday were marked by the Northern Lights. Users in social networks with a minute intervals post pictures of beautiful phenomenon. Most often, the image flew from Karelia, Tver and Moscow region, St. Petersburg and Udmurtia. A few minutes ago, there were pictures of the northern lights and geo-tag “Tatarstan”, “Mari El».

For our band – a unique phenomenon, but not a single. Today scientists explain this northern lights in central Russia the strongest over the past year and a half solar storm. If you believe the agency Associated Press, its at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric phenomena was estimated at 4 points on a five-point scale geomagnetic effects. In the world have said that such measures can provoke displacement of the northern lights to the south. Here’s what happened – to the part, not terrible, but beautiful.

We add in Kazan social networking users are also rushing to explain the phenomenon of magnetic storms – even scheme amusing result. Indeed, today we are witnessing the peak performance.

REFERENCE “KP»

Polar or northern lights – the glow of the upper atmosphere of planets have magnetosphere, due to their interaction with the charged particles of the solar wind. In the Northern Hemisphere, it is also known as the Northern Lights, and in the high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere – South.

There are many colors of the aurora. Colouring depends on the particles of the solar wind interacts gas. This is determined by the layer of the atmosphere in which the interaction occurs. In the visible light spectrum we radiance occurs at an altitude of ~ 90 to 150 km above the earth’s surface. If less than 120 km – we see the violet-blue color, from 120 to 150 km – yellow-green, and above 150 km – pink and red.

BTW

Season polar (northern) radiance is the period between the fall and spring equinox: September 21 to 21 March.

To see the glow can be from 9 pm to midnight. It is clearly seen in the frosty, clear weather (cloudless sky should be).

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