Northern Lights

[Sue_CT]

Outside my house tonight.

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[Sue_CT]

If you have a chance while it’s still dark go out and point your camera towards the northern sky.

[bower]

So pretty Sue!

[MissS]

That's just beautiful. I wish that I could have seen them but as usual we had a thunderstorm roll in. Darn. It's been about 40 years since we had the opportunity to see them here given the weather.

[slugworth]

the jan 1938 one predicted WWII
they later said some of the displays looked like atomic bomb mushroom clouds.

[Sue_CT]

I never realized before that it is not usually visible to the naked eye. You have to point your camera/phone at the northern sky. For some reason a camera will pick up what your eye can’t. They are supposed to be visible all weekend so if your weather clears up you might still be able to see it.

[Paulf]

Clouds covered the northern half of the sky....saw nothing.

[karstopography]

They were actually visible last night about 50 miles north of Houston. Saw tons of time lapse videos on the news of the purple glow of the Aurora over Lake Conroe. I tried to see them here, but there was too much light pollution from the cityto the north. I don’t ever remember the Aurora being this far south.

[pepperhead212]

I was asleep when they came through here overnight...I think they said 3:30 was about the time to see them here.

[CrazyAboutOrchids]

I went out a bit early and got some good shots but then it seemed clouds must have come in. Finally gave up and went to bed. I could see something in the sky, but then using my phone camera (non-filtered pics) I could really see stuff.

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[Sue_CT]

It was interesting. I was standing outside and couldn’t see anything, so I assumed it had already passed, but when I looked at my camera, it was still there. It is pretty unusual I guess to be able to see it with the naked eye, although apparently some report having been able to. Possibly not to extent you would through a camera lens. I didn’t know u til I turned on the 11pm news that you had look at it through a camera lens. Also, the best time estimates to see it are really only estimates of cloud cover, it is there all night. You can probably see in this pic, you can only see slight color through the clouds, but it is still there. As the cloud cover increased it disappeared.

[bower]

I will keep an eye tonight in case we get a break in the clouds.
Light pollution is not much of an issue here, for sure. But the cloud cover is another story.
Can't believe I'm still waiting to see aroras ever! My mom has seen them many times on the northern end of the island where she grew up. Not common on the Avalon at all, so it would be nice to get a clear peek!!

[worth1]

I thought this thread was about a tomato.

[karstopography]

Saw photos of the northern lights taken from Ft. Lauderdale, FLA. Hawaii evidently saw them also.

Tomorrow night, the lights might make another appearance.

[ddsack]

I went out to our dock last night around 11PM waiting for my son to come in from fishing. I did see the greenish glow in the north, but it was mostly a diffuse glow and not that spectacular. Just once it did kick in with a few brighter streamers, and it's true that it looks much brighter on camera than with the naked eye. My son offered to take me out on the lake for a better view, but I declined since he'd been out for a long time already, and there was no knowing how long you have to wait for the more photogenic brighter flares to show up. There were no purples or reds in the time I was watching. What I saw was not that different from northern lights that I've seen some winters.



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[worth1]

Could the northern lights possibly be what we call the spirits of all the good people that have lived and died on this planet combined together to put on a beautiful display of mankind and it's goodness.
Not likely but a nice thought anyway.

[AKgardener]

So beautiful

[bower]

Gorgeous sky @ddsack !

Heavy rain and clouds suddenly blew over here this evening, and currently blue skies and a brilliant sun. If the storm isn't over, then I could see them tonight... I'll be on watch for sure!

Mom tells me that up north on the island they were called the "Merry Dancers". Google says that's from Scotland or the Channel Islands (who knew they had northern lights?!)
She tells the tale of walking across the harbor ice in St. Anthony one night, when suddenly the lights came right down around them. She said she could feel and also hear them singing. IDK how geomagnetic waves can produce that kind of sensation but I don't doubt her. If you're walking on the ice, any kind of vibration they caused could produce sound or sensations.