I saw the last one, about 20 years ago. But alas, nothing tonight. N hing ou t of the ordi##ry. Just my uck.
Southern Alberta here. Yep, they’re out there. Not the brightest or most colourful, but then, I’m in an area that was supposed to be Poor for watching.
Regardless, they’re there. And they’re dancing.
I saw it, here in York, UK, last night. Last time I saw it was 31 years ago.
The dishwasher started spontaneously for some reason, despite not showing any lights - and my daughter’s iPad made an unprompted announcement of some sort - I wonder if there was some local electromagnetic pulse thing going on there.
My nephew, who lives about an hour north-west of London, posted a photo of the lights. I don’t think they’ve ever been seen this far south, but come to think of it, we’re roughly on the same latitude as Calgary, so maybe I shouldn’t be surprised
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Took this picture just outside my house in Olympia, WA right now.
Protip: If you’re in an area with lots of light pollution, the aurora might appear to be clouds or just gray streaks in the sky. Get your phone out - it can detect light that the naked eye can’t.
Kicking myself for not taking a look when I woke up at midnight and at 3 am. Might have seen something, since most of Switzerland had a chance to see something. There are some spectacular photos out there. Thanks for sharing!
Yep, I was one of them. The solar prominences, at least, (two, in fact) have no idea if I saw a CME.
Was hoping for an aurora, which was already a long shot due to being south of Chicago and its light pollution (but not directly south, so had some hope…) but it’s cloudy with light rain here. >sigh<
A local San Antonio television weatherman posted on Twitter a photograph of aurora supposedly visible from Boerne, Texas which is just north of San Antonio (and also extremely far south - like 29 degrees latitude)! I walked outside in my neighborhood in northern San Antonio proper and the sky was hazy with some bright stars/planets (?) visible but no sign of aurora. Wasn’t clear from his tweet if the photo was his own or was from someone else.
That haze was likely the aurora. As I noted above, it’s more visible on camera than to the naked eye.
Clear sky here, a little suburban light pollution. It does not look colorful to the my naked eyes (such as they are) but is highly dynamic. Like fast-changing high ghost-clouds.
Yes, that is the most remarkable characteristic to my eyes. The curtains, bursts and rays of this phenomenon are tens, or hundreds, of kilometres across, but they change in seconds.
I was playing with my camera and found that one second (on a tripod) was the ideal exposure. I think the movement made going over that result in too much homogenization of the image.
Pretty nice views here in San Jose:
I wasn’t really expecting anything at all given how far south we are, and the various maps showing basically nothing happening in California, but it was colorful and streaky even to the naked eye.
I went up Mt. Hamilton, aiming to end up at Lick Observatory. I stopped at a trail partway up for this view and was glad I did. I ended up going all the way up to the observatory, but it was mostly a waste as there were huge crowds and the aurora had somewhat died down by then.
Quite nice here in western Wisconsin, even through suburban glow. It looked like Dr. Strangelove’s San Jose photo – soft, gently morphing, streaky “clouds” of pink, yellow, and a bit of green. Not shimmering, sharper-edged curtains like I saw once in Alaska, but a good experience for the family (I’m especially glad my kid got to see it).
I saw them from Cleveland (technically, just past the city limit, but still urban), even through the light pollution. What I saw, I wouldn’t have noticed if I didn’t know to be looking out for it, but a friend further out in the suburbs said that a whole section of the sky was pink. It was my… ninth, I think? time seeing them.
Every time I’ve seen them has been different, but the first time I saw them, the whole sky was a uniform color that gradually changed all over, like mood lighting, but then there were occasional “windshield wipers”, thin white lines that would pivot across the sky in a second or so.
The second time, it was a green amoeba that squirmed around in the sky, changing shape and growing and shrinking. A few times, it shrank away to nothing, and then reappeared in some other spot.
They have been seen as far south as Florida. But what’s relevant here isn’t the distance from the geographic pole, but from the magnetic pole, and the magnetic pole is in northern Canada, so we western hemisphere folks get somewhat of an advantage.
And cameras can catch more detail than the naked eye can, sometimes, but you really can see things like those curtains you see in photographs with the naked eye, at least under the right conditions.
I neglected to set my alarm and slept right into the dawn. 
I had looked around 11 pm and didn’t see anything but there is a huge woods to the north of my apt. complex and the entire place is lit up like the 4th of July, and was a bit wary of wandering around in the wee hours of the morning looking for a place with a clear shot to the north.
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It was, not all that long ago, but it appears that it is no longer even in the western hemisphere.
A family member near Seattle sent this shot to me. I was able to see them when I was in Norway, far north of the Arctic Circle. That’s great that they have moved this far south.
