Caught some northern lights after deciding to quickly check out the Sedona Airport overlook after pizza and wine, and sure enough, we saw the solar flare.
May 11, 202434.8697°N 111.7610°W
Background
Sedona’s red rocks and high-desert dark skies make it a night-photography town. The May 2024 aurora that reached here was a rare one — an extreme geomagnetic storm strong enough to push the northern lights as far south as Arizona, which almost never happens.
The event
This was the May 10–11, 2024 geomagnetic storm — a once-in-a-couple-decades G5 event so strong it pushed the aurora as far south as Arizona, which basically never happens. The Sedona Airport Mesa overlook is a classic sunset and dark-sky perch, and stumbling onto the aurora from there on a whim is the kind of luck you can’t plan. Visit Sedona.
