Normally, as the name suggests, the Northern Lights are reserved for the northern regions. Unusually strong sunspots also caused this colorful natural spectacle above the skies of Lower Austria. But for an amateur astronomer from the Baden district, photos of the “Aurora Borealis” were not enough.
The Northern Lights provided unexpected light shows in the sky this weekend. While countless ‘Krone’ readers captured the colorful natural spectacle on camera, amateur astronomer Robert Grögler from Lindabrunn in the Baden district went looking for its origins.
Photo coup without special camera
Since the ‘aurora borealis’ is known to be caused by sunspots, he found what he was looking for on the surface of our star. He used the telescope to focus on the current eruption AR3664 – and took a souvenir photo. Not with special equipment, but simply with your mobile phone!
“The inconspicuous spot on the surface of the sun measures about 200,000 kilometers, more than fifteen times the size of our Earth,” says the “stargazer” with his eye for the big things.
Source: Krone
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