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Posted by: Wil 1 year, 7 months ago

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Aurora alert! If you live at a high latitude - Alaska, northern Canada, Scandinavia, and so on - tonight is a good night to look for the beautiful aurora, or northern lights.

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TimALoftis1 year, 7 months ago

I never have seen the Northern Lights...I hope to someday travel and see them. The pics are so beautiful.
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  ekklesiawarrior1 year, 7 months ago
  
  In the years past in the very north of Scotland, these Lights of the Auroa are breath taking.
  Awesome!
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fudgie1 year, 7 months ago

Cool post, Wil-
I'm totally fascinated with this kind of stuff. I live in Buffalo, NY and sometimes am lucky enough to see them. It's sweet how the website documents what kind of photo equip. these people used to capture the pics.
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Wil1 year, 7 months ago

I've only seen the aurora once, and it was from a plane while I flew overnight from Los Angeles to London.
I had planned to sleep, but this green gossamer curtain that danced out my window as far as I could see kept me up until dawn.
We never see it down here in Los Angeles, but if you live in a place where they may show up, grab a blanket and head out tonight.
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  Beau78901 year, 7 months ago
  
  That sounds very cool, especially from a plane. I was on a plane tonight from DC to Chicago and couldn't see them at all.
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  ekklesiawarrior1 year, 7 months ago
  
  That also happened with me as well on a flight overnight from JFK to London.
  To those on a flight this week, enjoy.
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  ciera-marie1 year, 7 months ago
  
  I live in MN and right now and its so cold it'd be a sleeping bag. IF that. I've been fortunate enough to see them. Each time is just as beautiful as the first.
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chucspe1 year, 7 months ago

I live in southern indiana, and about two years ago we actually got a vivid glimpse of the norhter lights. It wasn't like anything i've ever seen.
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jordan111 year, 7 months ago

I've never seen them. The green glow from the iceland pictures are so beautiful. Maybe one day I'll be in the right place to experience them too.
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  newsquew1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Jordan,
  That's a wonderful endeavor to pursue.
  I've seen them often & each viewing is, in its own way, spectacular.
  (Sometimes they are white & pencil thin, others as indicated in the colorful pictures we see so often.)
  Vacation Alaska In February!!!!!
  Who'da thought.
  
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TJK11 year, 7 months ago

One of the best places to view the northern lights is LABRADOR. They are an incredible site.
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chevydog1 year, 7 months ago

Years ago (mid-1970's), I had the good luck to see them from southern Wisconsin. A sight to behold.
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  PucciPat1 year, 7 months ago
  
  hahah, you mean decades ago. lol
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alaskalady1 year, 7 months ago

Heck I live in Alaska, and I have only seen them 2 times, the times that the aroras are active we have clouds!!!!!
I live 70 miles north of Anchorage....
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pagey1 year, 7 months ago

I was lucky enough to see them once, amazing to watch.
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EsaEngr1 year, 7 months ago

The Northern Lights is something that I trult hope to be able to see atleast one time in my life
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Sandmn1 year, 7 months ago

I was stationed in Iceland for a time, and part of my tour there, I experienced the 24 hour daylight periods, the 24 hour dusk period and several nights when the northern lightshow was in full bloom. Very fascinating to watch, and quick to change. It can be the entire skyline one minute, and what resembles lightening shooting across the sky the next. I wish I had filmed it while I had the chance, for my kids to witness. Other experiences there weren't quite so nice, like the whaling periods when caught whales were pulled onto docks for cutting up. Fills the air for miles and it is impossible to breath without wanting to barf. But it was always fun to catch a sonar on a fast moving sub thru the northern ice and tracking it to florida, only to find out we were tracking whales. We did drop a sonabouy once and hit a damn russian sub right on its deck, 20 feet under water. They rose and stole our sonabouy
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biggeorge2k1 year, 7 months ago

How can we blame Bsh for this, is this becasue of global warming?
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  cantfoolme1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Bush couldn't be responsible for something so beautiful.
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rickcb1 year, 7 months ago

I grew up on a farm in Northern Wisconsin, and I remember seeing them a few times...they are truly a sight. Being out in the country there were no "city lights" to detract from their beauty. Unfortunately I've been legally blind now for 17 years, and am only able to make out a dim glow, but my childhood memories remain perfectly vivid.
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cantfoolme1 year, 7 months ago

I have been fortunate enough to see them as far South as 50 degrees North. One of Mother Nature's most spectactular sights and one that even we can't screw up .... I hope.
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Neophile1 year, 7 months ago

So did anyone see them last night? Anyone snap any photos and put them online?
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  fudgie1 year, 7 months ago
  
  Overcast last nite where I live, Neo.
  Bummer.
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ladyjane691 year, 7 months ago

I live in NH, I have seem these lights from the most northern part of NH. They are absolutly beautiful !!!
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dragonballpr142 months, 2 weeks ago

i have newer seen them.how does it beatiful?
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dragonballzpr152 months, 2 weeks ago

anyone has an Aurora picture.
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