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PLACERVILLE, Calif. (KCRA) — A few dozen people made their way to the Placerville Observatory on Monday night, hoping to catch a rare glimpse of the Northern Lights, which were visible only through a camera lens.
“We came over here to see the aurora and see if we can try to see it like through our phones, and we’ve been seeing it like, through waves, and it’s been really pretty,” 11-year-old Evelyn Strange said. “It was just like reddish pinkish and it was really light.”
The observatory, located away from city lights and above the fog line, offered a prime location to attempt to view the Northern Lights.
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The aurora was spawned from a coronal mass ejection, known as a CME, which created a strong geomagnetic storm in Earth’s magnetic fields.
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