Photos: See rare sight as solar storm brings northern lights to Southern California

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‘I never dreamt of seeing the aurora in Southern California,’ a photographer said of solar storm that turned the sky pink, purple and green.

The northern lights visible from Mountain High in Wrightwood lighting up the sky across Southern California Viewing the northern lights is a bucket-list life experience, a magical sight people travel to far, remote parts of the world to get a glimpse of — and even then, everything needs to line up just right.

The Space Weather Prediction Center, based in Boulder, Colorado, put out a Geomagnetic Storm Watch for May 11 throughout the United States and beyond, and by early morning, reports on social media were shared from across the country.“When they arrive at Earth, a geomagnetic storm can result,” it reads. “Watches at this level are very rare.”

Northern lights visible from Mountain High in Wrightwood, California, turning the sky pink over the skyline during the rare phenomenon. Hutain selected the location to try and document the rare sight, the photographers knowing they would need to be away from light pollution. But they said they couldn’t believe what they saw in the sky.

The photographers are no strangers to pulling all-nighters to document rare phenomena, putting in hundreds of hours seeking out bioluminence that make the ocean glow the past few years and other phenomena like the “fire falls” in Yosemite.

 

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