There are some striking videos of auroral activity on the recent big news item website YouTube.

Here's one of them that's really worth a look.

Dave Mitsky

That is my favorite one! Def. check it out.

Thanks for the link.  The video was great.

That's pretty wild.

I have a stupid question: why are some of the brighter stars moving and those  that appear to be in the background/ somewhat dimmer are not? 

Sandycane wrote:

That's pretty wild. I have a stupid question: why are some of the brighter stars moving and those  that appear to be in the background/ somewhat dimmer are not?

There aren't any stupid questions here! :) ... I thought that there must have been a meteor shower going on, or something along thoes sorts. They are probably just a few meteors passing by at the time the video was taken.

Hi Daniel, thanks for not calling me stupid.

I spotted the meteor shower in what I would call the foreground then there is the middle layer of moving stars/ constellations. Then there is the background layer of stars that are not moving.

Maybe I'm just seeing things.

Sandycane,

Those nonmoving "stars" may be hot pixels or some other sort of artifact.

Dave Mitsky 

 

Thanks for the explanation, Dave.