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Wow! Check out the view from the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland! https://www.jungfrau.ch/en-gb/live/webcams/#webcam-jungfraujoch-top-of-europe https://www.jungf

Wow! Check out the view from the Jungfraujoch in Switzerland! https://www.jungfrau.ch/en-gb/live/webcams/#webcam-jungfraujoch-top-of-europe https://www.jungfrau.ch/en-gb/live/webcams/#webcam-jungfrauj...

AngelSeth 2y ago
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chgs 2y ago
Doesn’t look like that in reality. If I take a photo on my phone here in the UK midlands I get pink and green in all directions with a 3 second exposure. However with just the naked eye it’s like super high level clouds
- amatecha 2y ago
  Yeah, camera sensors (depending on filtering) are far more sensitive to the dim light of the aurora than our eyes. Still means you can get utterly amazing photography there already! :)
  - ShakataGaNai 2y ago
    I was in Northern MN a couple years back when there was some decent aurora https://imgur.com/a/nBjdhZ9 https://imgur.com/a/nBjdhZ9 What the camera caught was really impressive! Even with just a couple seconds exposure on a phone. But what the human eye saw was.... effectively a portion of the sky that was unusually bright and seemed to have some sort of movement. Like you stared at it and knew something was amiss, but nothing "impressive" to look at.
    - erikbye 2y ago
      Come to the arctic circle during polar night, then you will see impressive.
  - codetrotter 2y ago
    A couple of years ago in the middle of Norway (not south, not north, in-between) me and a friend saw in the news that there would be aurora borealis, which is not common in that part of Norway. We were outside at like 2AM in the night that day trying to spot it but could see any hint of it for the life of us. Finally we used his phone and long exposure to see what it would pick up and on the captured photo we saw shades of green like aurora borealis. Quite fascinating, it was.
    - Filligree 2y ago
      For what it's worth... growing up in Tromsø, we have auroras a few dozen times per winter usually. They were always strong enough to be easily seen, often quite dramatic. It really does look like that if you're far enough north.
      - codetrotter 2y ago
        For sure. As mentioned though we were in the middle of Norway, not north. Well, actually the proper term for where we were at is East Norway. And I guess by official standards the middle of Norway is further north than where I consider the middle of Norway to be. To be very specific, we were in Gjøvik.
        erikbye 2y ago
        Here's a few crappy phone pics from near Oslo on a night (evening, around 19 I think) it was very visible with the naked eye. 0.5 seconds exposure. https://www.flickr.com/search/?sort=date-taken-desc&safe_search=1&tags=auroraborealis&user_id=198742796%40N02&view_all=1 https://www.flickr.com/search/?sort=date-taken-desc&safe_sea...
        codetrotter 2y ago
        That’s awesome! Wish I get to see it that visible too.
      - dotancohen 2y ago
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  - porphyra 2y ago
    Human eyes are basically black and white in low light since rod cells can't detect color.
- mrcus 2y ago
  Yeah, none of these other stories and photos are from reality
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- deadbabe 2y ago
  Ok why is it that some people say northern lights look EXACTLY like these spectacular photos, and others say in real life they are actually barely visible and you need a camera and very dark skies? Is there some kind of running joke I’m missing? I saw some northern lights in Iceland but they were very dim and underwhelming, I didn’t even know what I was looking at until I photographed them and saw the vivid green streaks in the photo, which definitely weren’t super visible in real life. The tour guide even said they aren’t actually like the photos at all! Are northern lights bullshit or what? What is possible to see with just a bare naked eye?
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  - nerdenough 2y ago
    They'll never look exactly like the long exposure, ultra vibrant photos. However, when they are really strong you can see both greens and purples very distinctly with the naked eye. One experience you can get in person when they're really strong is how fast they can dance around above you as well. I've found the dancing lights to the naked eye are much more astounding than in timelapses or videos, 1) because that's when they're most vibrant in person, and 2) because you can see just how fast and jittery and energetic they are, unlike in a video which is usually captured at much less than 30fps for low light and denoised and frames mashed together to create those soupy smooth videos and timelapses. Nice in their own way, but nowhere near the same experience. And when they're very low energy they will just look like green grey clouds to the naked eye. Source: live in the arctic
  - Geee 2y ago
    Yeah, typically northern lights look like faint white clouds with a little bit of green tint to naked eye. The photos are like those time-exposure photos of the milky way, which is not what the eye sees.
    - matsemann 2y ago
      While they "typically" look like that, because most often they're quite weak, I wouldn't compare it to milky way photos. If it's strong, especially if you're up north and somewhere with little light pollution, what you see is comparable to lots of pictures.
dylan604 2y ago
Any place with that much snow in mid-May is just make believe to me at this point in time.
hackernewds 2y ago
what am I expecting to see?
- rahkiin 2y ago
  These are live webcams. At the time it was sent it was probably showing the aurora
  - amatecha 2y ago
    Yeah, the entire sky and mountainside was bright pink, since the snow was reflecting the pink aurora. Very cool. Oh, here, I figured out there's an "archive" that can be browsed through. Here's the scene at the time I posted the original comment: https://www.jungfrau.ch/webcams/top-of-europe-jungfraujoch/#/?imgId=141532745 https://www.jungfrau.ch/webcams/top-of-europe-jungfraujoch/#... Ah, I managed to find the direct image URL in the network requests, as well: (warning, 20428px wide) https://storage.roundshot.com/5e568a0aaea5b0.54147912/2024-05-11/00-00-00/2024-05-11-00-00-00_full3.jpg https://storage.roundshot.com/5e568a0aaea5b0.54147912/2024-0...

AngelSeth 2y ago

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chgs 2y ago

Doesn’t look like that in reality. If I take a photo on my phone here in the UK midlands I get pink and green in all directions with a 3 second exposure. However with just the naked eye it’s like super high level clouds

amatecha 2y ago
Yeah, camera sensors (depending on filtering) are far more sensitive to the dim light of the aurora than our eyes. Still means you can get utterly amazing photography there already! :)
- ShakataGaNai 2y ago
  I was in Northern MN a couple years back when there was some decent aurora https://imgur.com/a/nBjdhZ9 https://imgur.com/a/nBjdhZ9 What the camera caught was really impressive! Even with just a couple seconds exposure on a phone. But what the human eye saw was.... effectively a portion of the sky that was unusually bright and seemed to have some sort of movement. Like you stared at it and knew something was amiss, but nothing "impressive" to look at.
  - erikbye 2y ago
    Come to the arctic circle during polar night, then you will see impressive.
- codetrotter 2y ago
  A couple of years ago in the middle of Norway (not south, not north, in-between) me and a friend saw in the news that there would be aurora borealis, which is not common in that part of Norway. We were outside at like 2AM in the night that day trying to spot it but could see any hint of it for the life of us. Finally we used his phone and long exposure to see what it would pick up and on the captured photo we saw shades of green like aurora borealis. Quite fascinating, it was.
  - Filligree 2y ago
    For what it's worth... growing up in Tromsø, we have auroras a few dozen times per winter usually. They were always strong enough to be easily seen, often quite dramatic. It really does look like that if you're far enough north.
    - codetrotter 2y ago
      For sure. As mentioned though we were in the middle of Norway, not north. Well, actually the proper term for where we were at is East Norway. And I guess by official standards the middle of Norway is further north than where I consider the middle of Norway to be. To be very specific, we were in Gjøvik.
      - erikbye 2y ago
        Here's a few crappy phone pics from near Oslo on a night (evening, around 19 I think) it was very visible with the naked eye. 0.5 seconds exposure. https://www.flickr.com/search/?sort=date-taken-desc&safe_search=1&tags=auroraborealis&user_id=198742796%40N02&view_all=1 https://www.flickr.com/search/?sort=date-taken-desc&safe_sea...
        codetrotter 2y ago
        That’s awesome! Wish I get to see it that visible too.
    - dotancohen 2y ago
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- porphyra 2y ago
  Human eyes are basically black and white in low light since rod cells can't detect color.
mrcus 2y ago
Yeah, none of these other stories and photos are from reality
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deadbabe 2y ago
Ok why is it that some people say northern lights look EXACTLY like these spectacular photos, and others say in real life they are actually barely visible and you need a camera and very dark skies? Is there some kind of running joke I’m missing? I saw some northern lights in Iceland but they were very dim and underwhelming, I didn’t even know what I was looking at until I photographed them and saw the vivid green streaks in the photo, which definitely weren’t super visible in real life. The tour guide even said they aren’t actually like the photos at all! Are northern lights bullshit or what? What is possible to see with just a bare naked eye?
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- nerdenough 2y ago
  They'll never look exactly like the long exposure, ultra vibrant photos. However, when they are really strong you can see both greens and purples very distinctly with the naked eye. One experience you can get in person when they're really strong is how fast they can dance around above you as well. I've found the dancing lights to the naked eye are much more astounding than in timelapses or videos, 1) because that's when they're most vibrant in person, and 2) because you can see just how fast and jittery and energetic they are, unlike in a video which is usually captured at much less than 30fps for low light and denoised and frames mashed together to create those soupy smooth videos and timelapses. Nice in their own way, but nowhere near the same experience. And when they're very low energy they will just look like green grey clouds to the naked eye. Source: live in the arctic
- Geee 2y ago
  Yeah, typically northern lights look like faint white clouds with a little bit of green tint to naked eye. The photos are like those time-exposure photos of the milky way, which is not what the eye sees.
  - matsemann 2y ago
    While they "typically" look like that, because most often they're quite weak, I wouldn't compare it to milky way photos. If it's strong, especially if you're up north and somewhere with little light pollution, what you see is comparable to lots of pictures.

dylan604 2y ago

Any place with that much snow in mid-May is just make believe to me at this point in time.

hackernewds 2y ago

what am I expecting to see?

rahkiin 2y ago
These are live webcams. At the time it was sent it was probably showing the aurora
- amatecha 2y ago
  Yeah, the entire sky and mountainside was bright pink, since the snow was reflecting the pink aurora. Very cool. Oh, here, I figured out there's an "archive" that can be browsed through. Here's the scene at the time I posted the original comment: https://www.jungfrau.ch/webcams/top-of-europe-jungfraujoch/#/?imgId=141532745 https://www.jungfrau.ch/webcams/top-of-europe-jungfraujoch/#... Ah, I managed to find the direct image URL in the network requests, as well: (warning, 20428px wide) https://storage.roundshot.com/5e568a0aaea5b0.54147912/2024-05-11/00-00-00/2024-05-11-00-00-00_full3.jpg https://storage.roundshot.com/5e568a0aaea5b0.54147912/2024-0...