Aurora Color Palette Collage

Alaska Aurora Photography

Spanning 38 years of personal field observations and photography, this unique chart documents the shifting colors and intensities of auroral displays across multiple solar cycles. It is both a scientific record and a visual celebration of one of nature's most dynamic and ever-changing phenomena.

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Size 24x38

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☆ Museum-quality archival prints
☆ Vibrant, fade-resistant colors
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☆ Descriptive story card included

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About This Photograph

"Aurora Color Palette Collage"

This chart shows 38 years of auroral color variations per solar cycle with my physical observations/photography in the field. The intensities, colors & shapes of auroral displays are directly related to each Solar Cycle’s output. The comparison above shows the decline of Cycle #21, one of the largest on record, when on any clear to partly cloudy night aurora displays were vivid & powerful. Even when cloudy, the clouds were backlit with the colors of auroral displays above. Sadly I began photographing aurora during the waning years of that cycle. Cycles #22 & #23, (1989 & 2001 Solar Maximums) though not as large geomagnetically as Cycle #21, had several of the largest X-class solar flares & auroral displays on record. By comparison, Cycle #24 was exceptionally weak, though there were a handful of beautiful auroral displays across the world.

The coming solar-storm output of our massive star & subsequent auroral events above Earth for the remainder of Solar Cycle #25 are absolutely unpredictable. Solar Cycle #25 is presently entering the decline from Solar Maximum, estimated by those who know, to have already arrived mid-2025. Solar Minimum for Solar Cycle #25 is theorized to occur about December 2030.

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