APRIL 23, 2023
A date that I will not soon forget.
9:58:23 PM
Instead of some catchy title, I'm going with the time, down to the second, because this night was abso-freaking-lutely incredible.
I told my wife that I shouldn't be too long when I left around 9...I got home around 1:15 AM. 🙃
As I was driving up over the mountain pass to my destination I pulled off the road to take a test photo to see if they were visible and I could see some faint green even though the sky wasn't totally dark just yet. I checked a website to see how the KP (magnitude) was doing and it said it was dropping from a 7 to a 3, which is not good, and I almost thought about just going home. I sent a message to a friend and she said the app she was using didn't show a drop, so I decided to press on and give it a go, and a go I gave it.
I pulled up to the location and could see the aurora spiking with my bare eyes. I frantically grabbed my camera and tripod and set it up to shoot video on the side of the road while I grabbed a second camera to get photos of this barn. I didn't even have time or the mind to grab a headlamp so I could navigate the muddy, wet pasture.
I called my Dad to tell him to come join me but I'm pretty he thought I might need to be admitted because I was hooting and hollering like a crazy person...all alone...in a field...by myself. Haha. He was able to see them over the mountains from his house in North Ogden.
After posting some photos and videos to my instagram stories, a few friends showed up to take in this incredibly rare event.
10:10:59 PM
10:10:11 PM
11:08:16 PM - You can see my friends in the field
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this looks incredible. Nice shots. would not be surprising if you stayed till the morning.
Super incredible!!! What shades of colors more luxuries.
I hope to see this beauty one day, live, not just in photos. Great photos by the way.
Wow that is awesome. I didn't know that you could ever see the Aurora Borealis in Utah! Amazing!
It's pretty rare but it happens. It's actually happened twice this year already. We're going into a solar maximum, meaning aurora activity over the next couple years is going to increase, so it should happen more often.
Incredible shots man. I wish that I could have gone out and gotten some pictures of this, but I didn't want to make the drive up north. So glad to see another Utah photographer able to capture this.
People were getting shots of it from all over the state, even down south. I had friends in New Mexico and Texas getting photos of it.
That is so cool. The light pollution in Utah County is so bad and we didn’t get to see any of that.
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