Aurora Borealis

One of my coolest memories from living in Alaska. Although I didn't see it as much as others, seemed to always come out at 2AM, but it was awesome nonetheless.

Charlie
 
I have two things on my "bucket list" to do when I first retire. One is to fish the Amazon for peacock bass. The other is to see the Northern Lights. I can only imagine what that looks like in person.

SDS
 
We got 'em up here, but not very often. When I go bush is when I mostly see it because I'm away from the city lights then.

-20c here right now. Hypothermia time.

Pete
 
www.spaceweather.com has forecasts for AB.
I've seen this twice, once while fishing after dark on my boat on Lac Vieux Desert in Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin and once from Lemont, Illinois which is far enough away from Chicago to not have the big cities lights obscure the show. I consider myself very lucky to have witnessed this from the Midwest USA.
Two highlights of my life!
 
It is among some of the images from my youth in Alaska that I almost took advantage of then, but also mean so much more to me in memory now! Its been too long since I've been back, almost 13 years...
 
I've seen the Northern Lights several times from NE Nebraska. It never gets old. I will literally stop on the road and watch them for as long as I can--sometimes for a couple hours. One particular time they filled half the sky.
 
I can't count how many times I saw them dance, each time was like I never saw them before.

I grew up in central Alaska, no city lights, kinda forget it's cold outside when I looked at them.

Pictures and movies are like watching a 2.5 inch black and white TV compared to IMAX.
 
I've seen them once, and it was out camping in northern minnesota (home!) ....it was an unexpected but awesome surprise!!! I hope to see 'em again soon....
 
Thanks, E. Amazing.

I've been meaning for a long time to go see the Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis and photograph them.
 
I saw an unusual auroral display in the village of Ardsley, just north of New York City.
It was mostly red, but the curtains covered a lot of the sky.

One of the auroras in that C.W.McCall video was on Astronomy Picture of the Day:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070409.html

aurora1_wikipedia.jpg
 
Several years ago, I found myself on the shore of Murtle Lake, in Wells Gray Park, in the BC interior, at about 23:30. I was on a two week canoe trip with my father, and on this particular night, brilliant ethereal green northern lights spent a half hour rippling across the sky over the mountains and lake, coming in from the North. It was the most spectacular light show I have ever seen - really a once in a lifetime experience.

Thanks for giving me an excuse to reminisce, Esav!

All the best,

- Mike
 
I've seen them a bunch of times in the Yukon and AK, when on wilderness river trips in the Fall. One time there were a lot of wildfires burning and they put smoke/particulates into the atmosphere. The result was the wildest array or aurora colors I've ever experienced.

They have a couple aurora observation sites near Whitehorse and tourists come to see the phenomenon. Enough Japanese tourists were coming that a local fellow told me they had a sushi bar in Whitehorse. I never would have expected that. Up there, raw fish is usually referred to as "bait".

DancesWithknives
 
DWK2 said:
Enough Japanese tourists were coming that a local fellow told me they had a sushi bar in Whitehorse. I never would have expected that. Up there, raw fish is usually referred to as "bait".
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In this case, they used it as bait to catch Piscis touristicus. :)
 
I was in Delta Junction, Alaska, and someone came in and commented on the "light show" going on outside. We had only been there for a couple of weeks and stepped outside to watch. Well, we figured that we definitely were marking ourselves as newbies, when slowly the natives filtered out to watch also.
 
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