Aurora Borealis

Has anyone seen the Aurora Borealis? I just heard about it this morning so didn't get a chance to look last night, but It's supposed to be on again tonight. Unfortunately it's very cloudy and hazy which may mean it will not be showing well. It's supposed to be visable in the North east states in the northern skies, brought on by the solar flare the other day.

I actually saw one in the 1970s but at that time I was living in an area where there was not much light dispersent . Even though technically i lived in the Bronx in NYC my window s overlooked the Hutchinson river with a park/bird sanctuary on the other side and the long island sound

Anyway the one I saw was gorgeous. I wish i had taken pictures at the time

No, I'm not only to far south, but too much
light pollution.

i need to go out and see if i can see anything between the trees. is it all night or just for part of the time? hmmmm....can't hurt to go up and look.
I THOUGHT i'd seen it as a kid but thought i had dreamed it! it came around when i was living in MI out in the country so there was no problem with too much light! i thought we might have been able to see it up there because we were so close to Canada!
eta...went out and looked but i think its too cloudy to see anything. just a few stars. there's a light coming from the other side of the garage (coming from the other side of town or the next town over)but i think that's town lights and not sky lights.

I hope you northerners can catch a glimpse. Seeing the aurora is one of the things on my "bucket list."

I caught a faint Aurora display one time just after I moved into my current home, which is almost 10 years ago now, and it was really neat. I'm going to try to catch it tonight, if I can stay up that late!

hm....i wonder if they have cruises to see this...i know you can see if up in Canada more often and there are cruises up there.

I think they do. The one who would know
would be Bobcat.

i was thinking of her but i don't think she'd want to go to a place where its cold;)

Yes, they do have cruises up the Canadian coast, and of course in Alaska, where the Auroras are often seen, but you are so right, JB. I've never been on a cold weather cruise. I get enough of that here in Chicagoland, pretty as it may be. I also did not stay up to try to see the lights last night. I heard that the better nights would have been the two nights prior, which were cloudy, so I went to bed.

Just a little aside, my home town is named Aurora, because it was one of the first towns to utilize electric street lights. It's also featured in the skit and movie Wayne's World. I always thought that someone from SNL must have been invited down to my folks' basement when my younger brother was in high school, because they certainly could have drawn inspriation from my brother and his friends.

Party on Wayne...Party on Garth...

I caught sight of the aurora twice but that was over 20 years ago. Not very bright but it was distinctly the aurora.

If I remember I'll have to take a look at the sky tonight, but not much hope since there's a ton of light pollution here too.

Susan A wrote:Party on Wayne...Party on Garth...

Party on... Excellent!

whenever i've written out your address I"ve always thought of Wayne Campbell! Of course, i'm living in Wayne's World in more ways that one:) (people who knew me back in the early 90s always get a laugh out of my address now).
hmmm...maybe one of these days i'll get an electric bass....