Northern Lights

I grew up in northern Alberta so regularly got to see vivid northern lights with the naked eye (lived on acreage spent a lot of time outside late at night with friends in total darkness enjoying the wonder) They are such a magical thing to see, and I don’t mean with a camera enhanced, I mean the full vivid dancing streaks of greens and pinks and blues and oranges seen with just your eyes, magical. And I swear we could hear them crackle and hiss.

Anyway I miss seeing them because I now live in southern BC. I am so hoping tonight will be the night in about 20 years of not seeing the northern lights.

I’m sooooo excited. I’ve literally wanted to see them my whole life and never have. It’s totally clear here tonight and would be a perfect night for viewing them. All my fingers and toes are crossed (and I reallllly wish I would have heard about this before I only got four hours of sleep last night 😂🫠)

Hoping you get to see them. Even a little bit, they a magical every time.

People all over texas have seen them, but we haven’t. We drove around for a bit and didn’t see anything, then I sat out front in our driveway for almost an hour and still didn’t see anything. I will probably try again in a little bit, but even though the clouds have dissipated quite a bit, I’m not holding my breath. So sad.

Guess we’ll have to keep our plans to go to Iceland in a couple years!

We drove to Nebraska for my niece's high school graduation from Minnesota today. Everyone back home was posting pictures. As luck would have it, we saw them in Nebraska too. It was a fun time with my whole family.

Well that was a spectacular display! So happy we drove up to our local mountain Observatory. Stunning. 

We’re are in Oregon. We drove out to one of my son’s favorite hunting spots, on a hill away from all lights and people. You could see the lights and colors and streaks and dancing movements with just your eyes. But when you took pictures with the phone camera, it was amazing the different vibrant colors it picked up. So much more than we could see. I, too, haven’t edited my photos in any way, the colors are already so intense.

I’m not set up to share any of my photos, but I’m sure enjoying everyone else’s.

Our Rural TN family was able to see them. A former pea in AZ was able to see them aided by a camera. We go to bed too early, so we didnt see them, but people we know saw them- I dont know if they were at home or if they were out of town though.and it's going to be cloudy here tonight!

Same here. My friend in Liberty Hill (outside of Austin but in the country) was able to catch a little bit, though!

We had beautiful pictures too, in the south west of the UK. We got to bed at 2am! Another thing off my bucket list.

I'm so happy many of you saw them. 11:15pm I could still see some colour from the sunset. I saw a faint (to the naked eye) pink glow across the southern sky. And white streaks. The pink glow was beautiful but she didn't dance like I've seen before. By 1:30 am the wind mist have shifted and the wildfire smoke is so thick it's like a dense fog.

Wow! So many of you had gorgeous displays! I'm so pleased for all of you.

It was very cloudy here, so we saw something that might have been something at one moment, but mostly we saw nothing. People as close as 20 min. from me did see some of it, though, so it was very localized cloud cover.

However, I live far enough north that I do at least remember seeing them once as a child.

"Strong possibility" per the weather people.