Aurora seen East of Hartford, South Dakota on Feb. 18, 2014.
“Even with the moonlight, there was a nice arch of Aurora easily visible to the naked eye in rural Minnehaha County in Southeast South Dakota between midnight and 12:30am.” stated Christian Begeman, who took this photograph on Feb. 18, 2014 from East of Hartford, South Dakota.
This aurora display was a result of a fast solar wind stream and, possibly, the magnetic filament eruption from the sun’s western limb on Feb. 17.
Image Courtesy of Christian Begeman