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- Last night being 11/5. About 9:30PM I was on my way home (a half-hour eastward) from St Louis and heard a radio DJ mention it, so I drove another half-hour until I was away from the big towns and could see it. It looked like salmon-colored clouds around the north pole that appeared and disappeared in the space of a few minutes. You had to get well away from city lights, because one common type of streetlight is almost exactly the same color (only brighter).
I started watching about 10:00PM, and it was gone by about 11:00PM.
This ain’t the first time it’s happened, but it isn’t often. - MC
- Last night being 11/5. About 9:30PM I was on my way home (a half-hour eastward) from St Louis and heard a radio DJ mention it, so I drove another half-hour until I was away from the big towns and could see it. It looked like salmon-colored clouds around the north pole that appeared and disappeared in the space of a few minutes. You had to get well away from city lights, because one common type of streetlight is almost exactly the same color (only brighter).
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Goshdarnit, I missed it AGAIN? I wonder if you could see them from Columbia? You could the weekend before Halloween; the pictures in the paper were beautiful. Of course, I missed them then, too, but t he pictures were lovely… 
They kicked ass from my home, about 20 miles west of Chi.
Mrs. D is in an astronomy club, and one of her fellow members called us up at 8:30 to tell us there was a big one going on. It was awesome and was still going strong when I went inside around 9:30.
Evidently they were visible from DC too. Problem is my condo faces the wrong direction and the idiots at the news pulled the old “we know something you don’t know and we’re not gonna tell until we’re ready” stunt.
Come on up north where on a clear evening you can see them dancing across the sky. It’s an incredible sight!
I remember the first time I really saw them, at our cottage in east-central Ontario. Very impressive. Owning the top half of the continent has its attributes sometimes 