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Woman disappointed after ‘Northern Lights’ turns out to be tomato factory (www.independent.co.uk)
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Ms Harrison spotted the reddish hue while driving to work through the village of Bramford, Suffolk, at around 5.15am on Wednesday.

The cleaner posted three photos of her discovery to social media with the caption “guess it is the aurora, not seen one before”.

After attracting hundreds of comments, Ms Harrison was told the “beautiful” glare actually came from Suffolk Sweet Tomatoes’ LED light units, which are used to encourage the growth of its stock.

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Ms Harrison is not the first to make an aurora faux pas. In May, two university students said they were “catfished” into mistaking the purple glow of a Premier Inn hotel for the aurora borealis.

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[–] rowrowrowyourboat 61 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That should be regulated. That's insane light pollution.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Also seems like wasted energy that could be reflected back inside the greenhouse.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So that's where all the tomatoes are manufactured.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, that’s just excess tomato venting off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Now I wanna try that AtomicHotSauce!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Looks like a long exposure, I'm sure it was much dimmer to the naked eye. Still a lot of light though.