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Aurora of 29th October, 2003

Although widely anticipated, this aurora resulted from an X class flare from the Sun which impacted Earth's magnetic field around 6.30am (daylight for me) so I just about wrote off the event as not being observable. However, around 7.00pm (some 12 hours later), activity started rising again and I took my chance to travel 35 miles to a dark site to capture these images of the aurora.  
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This is how the York Magnetometer (http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iono/aurorawatch/)displayed the impact of the X Class flare of 29th October, 2003

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Date/Location: Dengie Marshes, Essex   29th October, 2003  
Equipment: Zuiko 28mm lens on standard camera tripod  
Camera/Exposure: Olympus OM1 35mm camera / E200 slide film exposures between 25 and 45 seconds  
Processing: Scanned with Minolta D'Image Scan Duall II @ 2700dpi, post processed with Photoshop 7  
Notes: Very misty locally - lucky to find a clearing in the mist.  

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