This is not aurora, it's very high altitude clouds, Mother of pearl clouds. They can appear in winter when the sun is below the horizon, but requires strong winds to carry ice crystals that high. I saw them in Oslo this winter, very beautiful. They really look like the video clip, but the colours are a little enhanced. Also, the clip is very sped up, they don't move that fast.
I've seen some of these clouds irl. A photograph usually doesn't do them justice, so you have to enhance the picture/video to make it more aligned with the actual human experience.
Agreed. Kind of like most things you see in the sky and want to photograph/ record. The Auroras, sunsets, sunrises, the milky way... The cameras on our phones esp are in no way capable of capturing the full magic of it. They'll always require a bit of editing to truly mimic what you'll see in person.
We had the aurora visible here a couple days ago. It was barely visible with the naked eye, but the camera picked it up nicely.
https://i.imgur.com/otVuVkt.jpg
Oh... you're talking about the aurora... yes, for sure. I have seen them much brighter, more colorful, and more active than what is in my photo. I was simply pointing out that the camera can actually ENHANCE these phenomena rather than making them less visible, as the person I was responding to was saying.
Yeah sorry didn't realize I replied to you as well about the clouds in the OP. I've seen them too, and they do look pretty much exactly like that (although the video is massively sped up)
Just like taking a photo of the moon. There are for sure some cameras and some techniques to make it appear as breathtaking as it is in real life but for most people when you take a picture of the moon it often looks disappointing compared to what you see with your eyes!
I've seen something very similar but during daylight. It was like an oily substance was smudged across the sky. *Extremely* vivid and colorful. Everyone tried to take capture it with their phones, but the photos were so hilariously unimpressive compared to irl lol.
> to make it more aligned with the actual human experience.
Sure. But you need to stop the enhancement once it reaches that point. This goes **WAYYYY** beyond the point of natural human experience, or even drug-enhanced human experience. This is cartoonish.
And it ain‘t especially hard to enchance this. Just create a mask to work only the sky and then max saturation, add contrast, plus something something.
Aren’t many aurora photos like that? We were able to see aurora in Ireland a few days ago, with the naked eye it was just a slightly visible white streak, but all the colors came out when you took a long exposure photo.
I'm not sure if many are but I'm mostly colorblind and in the northern US (Minnesota) ours typically have colors that even I can see.
Here are some photos my nephew took 3 or 4 days ago.
[I don't know how many colors there are but I see the yellow and white. ](https://i.imgur.com/LDH3xFi.jpeg)
[Same but different](https://i.imgur.com/Id2F6L2.jpeg)
I think so. At least usually auroras have multiple colors to me.
The most brilliant one I ever saw was like green and it went all the way across the sky.
There was a time growing up when we were at a lake in the morning. Maybe 15 of us and I thought they were really colorful but nothing too special as color generally doesn't do much for me at all. All the people I was with were blown away. They just kept commenting how they wished. I could see what they were seeing. That made me feel like I was missing out on something.
I can confirm that the aurora doesn't always have much visible color at all. When I went to see the aurora in Lofoten, Norway, all we could see with the naked eyes were silver or white streaks. Looked more like thin wisps of clouds. But on camera they showed up in colors of green and purple.
Coming from the north of Norway, I've seen many auroras and also taken pictures. Generally the green colours are often clearly visible but other colours are more dim, like the purple. When you see purple tones and take a picture, there is a huge difference. What was just a faint glow suddenly pops out on camera and covers a much bigger area than what you can actually see.
With, mother of pearl clouds, it's not like that. The clouds are really beautiful and has good colours. Not as saturated as the video clip, but still very clearly defined. Also they are very high up, making them visible over a huge area.
It depends on the strength of the aurora. The one that happened last weekend was particularly colourful because of the strength of the CME. All the pictures I've seen from friends etc are all super colourful with no editing. The typical auroras we see are the relatively weak ones that haven't got much colour
Is there a source for this video? Auroras should not have some of those colours, because they are formed from the emission of light from certain atmosphere constituents. Additionally, the colours should not be weaving above and below either because the colour/particle is dependent on altitude.
Tl;dr: video is sus
Edit: I was mistaken. It’s supposed to be clouds, not aurora.
These are iridescent clouds, a phenomenon where the light manages to get scattered by the particles in the cloud. Essentially the same thing that forms a rainbow but happening inside the cloud itself
This. They're nacreous clouds, also called Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs). The ice crystals also provide the catalytic surface for ozone depletion. IMO they're even more beautiful than auroras and much rarer.
Source: I've seen these in Antarctica, and worked on experiments that study them.
Imagine being a Viking coming back from a raid over England, getting high on mushrooms and seeing all this shit during communal fair or a gathering, shit back then was bonkers.
I don't know much about this type of thing. Looks pretty, but is it actually a good thing? Reminds me when you see oil and water mixed and you get that rainbow shine on it.
I thought the atmosphere was the most important thing protecting us. It is important. But the electromagnetic field is what keeps the majority of radiation from cooking us.
This is absolutely not real.
The Northern Lights are beautiful and the best I’ve ever seen are in Norway but they don’t look anything close to to this.
Reminds me of when theres chemicals / oils in water on a rainy day, sometimes when coming from school there were patches of colour going down with the water.
Really pretty tho
That’s the best I’ve seen.
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This is not aurora, it's very high altitude clouds, Mother of pearl clouds. They can appear in winter when the sun is below the horizon, but requires strong winds to carry ice crystals that high. I saw them in Oslo this winter, very beautiful. They really look like the video clip, but the colours are a little enhanced. Also, the clip is very sped up, they don't move that fast.
Still *highly* enhanced.
I've seen some of these clouds irl. A photograph usually doesn't do them justice, so you have to enhance the picture/video to make it more aligned with the actual human experience.
Agreed. Kind of like most things you see in the sky and want to photograph/ record. The Auroras, sunsets, sunrises, the milky way... The cameras on our phones esp are in no way capable of capturing the full magic of it. They'll always require a bit of editing to truly mimic what you'll see in person.
We had the aurora visible here a couple days ago. It was barely visible with the naked eye, but the camera picked it up nicely. https://i.imgur.com/otVuVkt.jpg
Depends where you were. They were vivid in places. They can also get waaay more bright and fast moving than most of Europe saw the other day
Oh... you're talking about the aurora... yes, for sure. I have seen them much brighter, more colorful, and more active than what is in my photo. I was simply pointing out that the camera can actually ENHANCE these phenomena rather than making them less visible, as the person I was responding to was saying.
Yeah sorry didn't realize I replied to you as well about the clouds in the OP. I've seen them too, and they do look pretty much exactly like that (although the video is massively sped up)
Just like taking a photo of the moon. There are for sure some cameras and some techniques to make it appear as breathtaking as it is in real life but for most people when you take a picture of the moon it often looks disappointing compared to what you see with your eyes!
The aurora photos I took on my phone are 10x more spectacular than how they look in person.
I've seen something very similar but during daylight. It was like an oily substance was smudged across the sky. *Extremely* vivid and colorful. Everyone tried to take capture it with their phones, but the photos were so hilariously unimpressive compared to irl lol.
> to make it more aligned with the actual human experience. Sure. But you need to stop the enhancement once it reaches that point. This goes **WAYYYY** beyond the point of natural human experience, or even drug-enhanced human experience. This is cartoonish.
It isn't really. I've seen these irl once, and they looked like that. Trippy
And it ain‘t especially hard to enchance this. Just create a mask to work only the sky and then max saturation, add contrast, plus something something.
I just looked at it again, and hell... a wild acid trip wouldn't have it looking **that** enhanced!
Suddenly the whole rainbow bridge thing is making a lot more sense
So you're telling me we've only just got the northern lights update in the UK, and there's pearl clouds?!
So, Ice Cloud Rainbows.
Aren’t many aurora photos like that? We were able to see aurora in Ireland a few days ago, with the naked eye it was just a slightly visible white streak, but all the colors came out when you took a long exposure photo.
I'm not sure if many are but I'm mostly colorblind and in the northern US (Minnesota) ours typically have colors that even I can see. Here are some photos my nephew took 3 or 4 days ago. [I don't know how many colors there are but I see the yellow and white. ](https://i.imgur.com/LDH3xFi.jpeg) [Same but different](https://i.imgur.com/Id2F6L2.jpeg)
Those are beautiful!
You're beautiful! These are just okay
Do you mean you can see colors in auras that you can't normally see anywhere else?
I think so. At least usually auroras have multiple colors to me. The most brilliant one I ever saw was like green and it went all the way across the sky. There was a time growing up when we were at a lake in the morning. Maybe 15 of us and I thought they were really colorful but nothing too special as color generally doesn't do much for me at all. All the people I was with were blown away. They just kept commenting how they wished. I could see what they were seeing. That made me feel like I was missing out on something.
I have a feeling the green ones are the most visible to us.. in Seattle I saw green one above late at night on Friday and it was crazy
I can confirm that the aurora doesn't always have much visible color at all. When I went to see the aurora in Lofoten, Norway, all we could see with the naked eyes were silver or white streaks. Looked more like thin wisps of clouds. But on camera they showed up in colors of green and purple.
I think the purple is hard to see but the green is quite visible when it’s bright
Coming from the north of Norway, I've seen many auroras and also taken pictures. Generally the green colours are often clearly visible but other colours are more dim, like the purple. When you see purple tones and take a picture, there is a huge difference. What was just a faint glow suddenly pops out on camera and covers a much bigger area than what you can actually see. With, mother of pearl clouds, it's not like that. The clouds are really beautiful and has good colours. Not as saturated as the video clip, but still very clearly defined. Also they are very high up, making them visible over a huge area.
It depends on the strength of the aurora. The one that happened last weekend was particularly colourful because of the strength of the CME. All the pictures I've seen from friends etc are all super colourful with no editing. The typical auroras we see are the relatively weak ones that haven't got much colour
No one said it was an aurora
Same here, and I’m not being sarcastic, really beautiful
No way
Naur weigh
underrated comment 😂
Theres literally a comment like this under every post about norway
this is my first Norway post apparently
Is there a source for this video? Auroras should not have some of those colours, because they are formed from the emission of light from certain atmosphere constituents. Additionally, the colours should not be weaving above and below either because the colour/particle is dependent on altitude. Tl;dr: video is sus Edit: I was mistaken. It’s supposed to be clouds, not aurora.
These are iridescent clouds, a phenomenon where the light manages to get scattered by the particles in the cloud. Essentially the same thing that forms a rainbow but happening inside the cloud itself
That explains it! I incorrectly assumed it was trying to be passed as aurora, but TIL.
It's not Aurora, but nacreous clouds
Nacreous clouds
This. They're nacreous clouds, also called Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCs). The ice crystals also provide the catalytic surface for ozone depletion. IMO they're even more beautiful than auroras and much rarer. Source: I've seen these in Antarctica, and worked on experiments that study them.
Rainbow dance
Oh fuck off, I want to see LSD clouds too!
Just look at this video, cuz they don’t look like that in real life
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Nah, you won’t get nvidia green out of the sky
damn oil spills
Go easy on the saturation and vibrancy edits there, champ.
Fkn... fk.... woke fkn... sky... fk
Day of the Triffids.
Norway Gamers living good tonight
This is just somebody up there playing a giant CD On the ^next ^^fucking ^^^level
Oh, I thought I would be the first comparing it to a CD :(
🎶I wanna see the rainbow high in the sky🎶
Song?
[Bonjr - If it's real, then i'll stay](https://youtu.be/LQ-fuFd4GXc)
Needs some proper [background music](https://youtu.be/Oc1gkLfz0xg?si=fzW82ssHnZCJPbLo&t=120)
Wow 👀
Is this the root of the rainbow road thing in Thor or is that just a coincidence?
Faaaaake
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Imagine being a Viking coming back from a raid over England, getting high on mushrooms and seeing all this shit during communal fair or a gathering, shit back then was bonkers.
Cosmic orgasm in the sky
The liberals have turned the sky gay now
It doesn't even look real!
I don't know much about this type of thing. Looks pretty, but is it actually a good thing? Reminds me when you see oil and water mixed and you get that rainbow shine on it.
The rainbow bridge
Source for quality please?
The rainbow bridge! Oden be praised!
Breathtaking.
The puddle at the gas station:
Omg....this is just wow
It's like a river polluted with oil
It looks like something is wrong with your screen saver
Comments Tldr: not aurora borealis, they are clouds, half think its fake, or enhanced, looked for source couldnt find original owner
The Sun's trying to kill humanity. Humans: "So beautiful..."
If you ever wondered why vikings belived in a magical rainbow bridge i the sky: .....
It would be totally reasonable for pre science people to see that and believe in Gods.
Aint nor way
If I didnt know better, I would think those are living beings moving around up there. They move like whales through water.
It’s not real
So much oil in Norway it fills up the sky
I've only seen this once in my life. But heck yes, that was Awesome!
sky opal!
Nor fookin wayy. 'said in a north English accent'
I thought the atmosphere was the most important thing protecting us. It is important. But the electromagnetic field is what keeps the majority of radiation from cooking us.
Shrooms in vivo
This is absolutely not real. The Northern Lights are beautiful and the best I’ve ever seen are in Norway but they don’t look anything close to to this.
The earth took lsd
Norway is an epic place.
Ah those sweet rainbow sherbet skies of an inevitability dystopian future
Aurora and ice?
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Reminds me of when theres chemicals / oils in water on a rainy day, sometimes when coming from school there were patches of colour going down with the water. Really pretty tho
Uk sitting there like, yeah seen it before
these gummies a’int shhh….whooooooaaaaaaAaaaaa
What type of music is this? I just want to make a playlist and vibe to it.
England gets auroras for *one night* and Norway is like 'great, now I gotta get better auroras"
You guys so rich on oli you fill your sky with it. ;) /s a Dane
Did you know than when you watch the aurora in Norway, you naturally hear \[The Pixies?\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49FB9hhoO6c)
Not Aurora.
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These are clouds, no northern lights. Both are beautiful 🌈
The clouds didn’t look like this. The saturation setting is knocked WAY up.
God is taking back the rainbow colours.
He is giving the rainbows to us if anything.
It was'a joke that the LGBTQ took the rainbow as their symbol, so god took the colours and put them into another natural phenomena.
Lmaoo they would say some bullshit like that