Northern lights

[Heo]

Thursday night when we came home the sky was on fire

[WConley]

Super cool Heo!  That is really beautiful 

[1964Fastback]

Wow, that's impressive!  To the rest of us that only see that maybe once or twice in our lives, it looks like you are at ground zero for some alien invasion like War of the Worlds.

Pat

[cjshaker]

Lucky duck!
I'm just far south enough that I will probably never see them. I'll be watching tonight though, as there's a slim chance they will reach this far south from the current solar burst reaching Earth.

[jayb]

We get them in Minnesota fairly frequently, but looking at them with the naked eye is not usually that impressive here.  However, if you take a picture of them with your phone, the colors really come to life.  I don't know why that is, but if you suspect some are there, try taking a cell phone picture and see what you get.

[Heo]

We get them in Minnesota fairly frequently, but looking at them with the naked eye is not usually that impressive here.  However, if you take a picture of them with your phone, the colors really come to life.  I don't know why that is, but if you suspect some are there, try taking a cell phone picture and see what you get.

Looks like wifes phone boost the green color and filtrated the purple out. There was some purple lights thats not visibel on the pic.
First i had the flash on and it resulted only in some gray hase in the sky

[Heo]

Lucky duck!
I'm just far south enough that I will probably never see them. I'll be watching tonight though, as there's a slim chance they will reach this far south from the current solar burst reaching Earth.

I watched saturday when the solarburst was suposed to hit the eart, but nothing. I Saw a map and aparently it missed us
But western Sweden and Norway had a lot of it

[Heo]

Wow, that's impressive!  To the rest of us that only see that maybe once or twice in our lives, it looks like you are at ground zero for some alien invasion like War of the Worlds.

Pat

Well, i have seen a couple of strange things in the sky..... No they dont abducted me and probed my b**t im not that crazy.
But i saw two JA37s chase a gloving sphere, that was hovering realy far away and high to the east. Before it took of with so high speed it just
left a gloving line in the sky, and poof, gone . The fighters passed close to me at treetop height with full afterburner.
Thats why i looked up in the sky and saw the sphere. Told my dad look whats that! and we studied it atleast 3-4 minutes before it was gone
Maybe 10-20 sec after the sphere vanished they put out the afterburners and returned toward the airforcebase.
What i saw i dont know but it was faaaaast ...warpspeed+ nitrous atleast

[gregaba]

Ford trimotor.
Greg

[shady]

This was last night. Only second time that I saw it in central PA. Last time was mid 80s and wasn't near as nice.

[badcatt]

I was out last night taking pictures of it too. Here are a couple I shot using my Nikon. Note the airplane flying through in the first one. I live on Camano Island WA. Some 65 miles north of Seattle. Not a lot of light pollution, but still some. This was one of the most active displays I have seen.(not that I have seen a lot) Back in the mid 70's I was working in Anchorage Alaska, I got to see, and photograph the Northern Lights a few times, they were brighter than this one was, but not as active.
https://flic.kr/p/2qn5TJg
https://flitoo.c.kr/p/2qn3A58

[badcatt]

I was out last night taking pictures of it too. Here are a couple I shot using my Nikon. Note the airplane flying through in the first one. I live on Camano Island WA. Some 65 miles north of Seattle. Not a lot of light pollution, but still some. This was one of the most active displays I have seen.(not that I have seen a lot) Back in the mid 70's I was working in Anchorage Alaska, I got to see, and photograph the Northern Lights a few times, they were brighter than this one was, but not as active.

[badcatt]

Trying to fix this thread. I broke it. sorry.