Aurora, Fireball & Meteor Shower - March 26-27, 2025

Looking north from the Boulder Valley, Montana

Fast solar winds from a huge coronal hole on the sun reached our Earth in the past day, allowing us to view and capture video footage of aurora on the northern horizon. A fireball skips across the upper atmosphere, possibly part of the meteor shower? As the aurora show diminishes, the Gamma Normids meteor shower makes a quick appearance in the Northeast, low to the horizon and at the right hand side of the camera view.

4K timelapse footage captured with a GoPro Hero9 using the following settings before processing through Windows Moviemaker software:
Nightlapse mode
Resolution: 4K
Lens: Wide
Format: Video
Interval: Auto
Shutter: 30 seconds
Duration : No limit
Bit Rate: High
White Balance: 4000k
ISO Min: 200
ISO Max: 1600
Sharpness: Low
Color: Flat

Background audio track:
'Meanwhile' by Scott Buckley
released under CC-BY 4.0.
www.scottbuckley.com.au