APRIL 23, 2023
A date that I will not soon forget.
9:58:23 PM
Instead of some catchy title, I'm going with the time, down to the second, because this night was abso-freaking-lutely incredible.
I told my wife that I shouldn't be too long when I left around 9...I got home around 1:15 AM. 🙃
As I was driving up over the mountain pass to my destination I pulled off the road to take a test photo to see if they were visible and I could see some faint green even though the sky wasn't totally dark just yet. I checked a website to see how the KP (magnitude) was doing and it said it was dropping from a 7 to a 3, which is not good, and I almost thought about just going home. I sent a message to a friend and she said the app she was using didn't show a drop, so I decided to press on and give it a go, and a go I gave it.
I pulled up to the location and could see the aurora spiking with my bare eyes. I frantically grabbed my camera and tripod and set it up to shoot video on the side of the road while I grabbed a second camera to get photos of this barn. I didn't even have time or the mind to grab a headlamp so I could navigate the muddy, wet pasture. I called my Dad to tell him to come join me but I'm pretty he thought I might need to be admitted because I was hooting and hollering like a crazy person...all alone...in a field...by myself. Haha. He was able to see them over the mountains from his house in North Ogden.
After posting some photos and videos to my instagram stories, a few friends showed up to take in this incredibly rare event.
10:10:59 PM
10:10:11 PM
11:08:16 PM - You can see my friends in the field
| https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/caseygrimley/23vhPurefNyTUDHyDYYmXyW47p9yAyTY8mFQUd5k4ijLRQkxFmsqJ78Mi9evXbCLZaT8s.jpg | https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/caseygrimley/242XuPs5zeDTu1v29pkiqYEWt4fMHb51pePZ4qiH2WbSNyCDYXbSVf5ZVb347pj8QSDbQ.jpg | https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/caseygrimley/23x9zAtrrafcigY4ZdDLnwnU9sQdFzPc7XYBr7GkQePccyJ1atwTCaEZxGQtUGVS6D3bN.jpg |
|---|---|---|
| Click to view large! |
| https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/caseygrimley/23wM51vfX7d7bnFvigT6bmAEUPNHsSNh2X5ETmi9APW8Ai4ANcpE4R3nmfFb9PKFdCWbt.jpg | https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/caseygrimley/23uEyyyqmXaLyT5PTdAiwXU8kzLwh7WZTKuACYU8WcRChTQcAYADdykMVKBS78y1vPKf3.jpg | https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/caseygrimley/23tm76yp9CQRn8jTSs51YjDtF71kNiRBWXqQHXJSeeaHHiG7YFA8KcKMkY5ECkZCS8gMj.jpg |
|---|---|---|
| Click to view large! |
Thanks for reading my post! Upvote, leave a comment, and follow me. Let's connect!
