Dear friends;
I’ve been in Brittish Columbia for a coupla years now. I was up at 3:00 this morning, went to my deck and saw the MOST AWESOME THING! Glowing waves were washing over half the sky1 Not much color to them (faintly pink and green). I spent at least an hour looking at this sight. Just an amzing thing for a boy from Santa Monica to see. Made me kinda nostalgic for my old home town. You can be sure I’ll be up again tonight at 3:00 again.
Cool! Try and get some pics up…
When I lived in the NWT, I was awestruck by the colourful displays we’d get nightly from November through March. I miss them.
I envy you - down here in Connecticut, we rarely get to see the aurora. The last time we had a really good display was in 1989, on the night my daughter was born. Huge, shimmering sheets of green light with pale pink streaks running through them; it made for a cool cosmic welcome for the new life in our family.
Of course, it wasn’t quite as cool for Quebec, where the EM radiation was a lot stronger and knocked out power to half the province…
The first time I ever saw them was from my sleeping bag camped out at Denali. It’s quite the sensation to drift from sleep to the Aurora and I layed there for a minute trying to figure out which I was enjoying.
Have seen them numerous times since, the most spectacular being at Soldatna when at first I thought some store was having a grand opening complete with a large spotlight.
A good friend gave up a promising career as a geologist and built a cabin in Willow so he could photograph them year round. He doesn’t make a lot of money but he’s about as carefree and happy as they come.
Good on ya, Todd.
I spent years in South Dakota and never saw them. I’ve dreamed of them ever since I was a kid, reading Jack London. Maybe I’ll see them before I cash in.
About two years ago I saw some northern lights here. It was the first time I had ever seen them as to see them this far south (43°N) is rare. It appeared as a big sheet of pink in the northeastern sky. I wish I had gotten a picture of it.
You must be talking about Todd Salat, who’s doing some nice photography.
Even though living here, one never grows tired of the aurora, or of Denali, or of any of the other natural wonders. My office looks out at the Chugach Range and I spend 5-10 minutes every morning watching the sunrise and weather patterns.
We don’t see the lights here in Anchorage as much as we used to. City lights tend to wash out all but the most brilliant displays. Luckily, one doesn’t have to go far to get away from the glare.
Yep, Todd and I were cow-orkers at ARCO Alaska. Good fella.
Cool! I definitely want to see the aurora sometime in this life.
And welcome to a fellow Firesign fan. The few, the proud, the bozos. 
When I flew to Armenia (boy, were my arms tired!), there was this faint haze in the northern sky. I summoned the steward and asked him to inquire with the pilot. Sure enough, what I saw could not possibly have been (as I conjectured) any high peaks in Greenland. Instead, it was the Northern Lights, and the steward was surprised, seeing as how I was the only person on the entire plane who noticed.
My first glimpse of the aurora borealis, no less!
I’ve never seen the aurora borealis, and it’s on my list of Musts for my life. Papa Tiger grew up on far northern Minnesota and has seen it many times, lucky him.
Gorgeous photographs – Todd is a lucky man!
Seeing the northern lights is one of the few things i want to do before I die. Just hope i don’t keep putting it off. I suppose i got a few years left though.
Scotcho
I always love seeing the aurora borealis… I don’t see it too often mainly because I am facing the wrong direction on my balcony and the city lights stop that…
I remember one time I saw them, years ago (probably about 8/9 years) we were camping out at Drumheller. Down for a weekend to visit the museum and see the sights. Well it was late one night and I had gone to the showers with the mother of the other family with us. We were coming back to our tents when I looked up and noticed this beautiful green haze across the sky right above the badlands. It was beautiful…
I’ve seen it a couple of times since, usually while out camping but sometimes as a very faint haze in the sky above the city. It’s harder to see it from the city of course but whenever I catch a glimpse of it I just gotta smile.