How to use your phone's night mode to capture the northern lights
The northern lights are expected to be visible again Friday night and night mode on your camera can help capture the colorful auroras. Here's how to turn it on and see them.
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The northern lights are expected to be visible again Friday night and night mode on your camera can help capture the colorful auroras. Here's how to turn it on and see them.
The colorful auroras of the northern lights were captured by KDKA First Alert Meteorologist Ray Petelin.
The northern lights were visible across the Pittsburgh area on Thursday.
People in the Pittsburgh area saw the northern lights on Thursday night.
The Northern Lights were seen throughout the Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania late Monday night and early Tuesday morning.
The northern lights and the Perseid meteor shower were spotted in the Pittsburgh area on Monday.
Photos of the auroras were captured in Washington County and in Butler.
The forecasted conditions come after a weekend of jaw-dropping northern lights seen as far south as Florida and as "magnetically complex" sunspots bigger than Earth continue to emit solar flares.
People from the United States and Canada to the United Kingdom, Poland, parts of China and Russia saw the northern lights this weekend.
The northern lights were on display in the Pittsburgh area on Friday.
The northern lights were visible in the Pittsburgh area on Friday.
The northern lights were visible in the Pittsburgh area on May 10, 2024.
The northern lights were visible throughout southwestern Pennsylvania on Friday.
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