Quite a display tonight
The northern sky has turned all green and tendrily here, as the northern lights come out to play. Here in the middle of town, they’re the brightest I’ve seen them in several years. There’s a good chance for more over the next few days.
PRETTY ! 
Hey, thanks for posting this. I wouldn’t have gone outside to look if you hadn’t. How cool…streaks of blue and pink covering half the sky. Much more impressive than the display I saw last fall (which was the first time I saw it).
If you’re seeing them farther south, they’d probably be good up here, but it’s snowing. 
I wonder if it’s worth getting up early tomorrow to see the Jupiter-Venus-moon thing.
Wait, so was I actually not imagining that it was the northern lights I saw out my car window tonight (in central Ohio)? If this is the case, that’s super-cool! I’ve never seen the northern lights before. It didn’t look like much, though… just some dim bluish steaks.
Saw them here in NWOhio, quite the thing! My first viewing! I am only seeing the “striations”-- no actual animation and color-changing. Is the strippling-undulation animated Aurora Borealis typical? Are the films/videos I’ve seen more accurate and a clearer representation, or are those time lapse films?
Hey, justwannano did you start a thread titled “northern lights”?
I started one on them, and now my post is #2 in this thread.
Are the mods playing tricksy games tonight, or is the vB software doing odd things?
Oooh, clear skies and I’m pretty far north. They haven’t been this beautiful since about '95.
They certainly weren’t time-lapsed here tonight! Very fast undulations and streaking across the sky. Amazing
My oh my! I thought I was seeing things till I read this thread. I’ve never before seen them this low in the hemisphere (can you tell I confuse lat and long, and try to find ways around it?).
The mods can combine two (or more, perhaps) threads if they’re so inclined. The two very similar OPs were posted within two minutes of each other, so I would guess that’s what happened. It’s two, two, two threads in one!
So, to either of your OPs, I say: I missed 'em. I’ll be sure to keep an eye out during the week though.
My sky is burning.
There are streaks of flame, pulsing rivers of cold fire. There are ghost dancers in green and blue. There are sheets of shimmering glory.
The moon and stars hide behind walls of celestial magnificence. The night sky is a spectral canvas and light itself forms the palette.
The heavens are dancing.
(Seriously, I have never seen anything like this in my life, and I’ve lived in Montana for five years now. I’ve seen Northern Lights like sheets and pale colors, but I’ve never seen them as intense or as defined as they are tonight. I’ve never seen them hide large numbers of stars.)
Here in northern New York it was pretty crazy a few hours ago.
Havn’t seen it like that in a couple years.
We could see them very faintly outside of NYC.
Saw them here in Ottawa as well - kind of weak and watery but there nonetheless! A friend of mine nearly drove off the road because she thought she was hallucinating!
One of the most spectacular displays that I ever saw was in Haileybury (ON). Clear, COLD night, the aurora at its most spectacular - just like a curtain of coloured light and the whole display being reflected off Lake Temiskaming (which had not yet frozen and was just like a sheet of glass).
I saw them, but unfortunately did not see them at thier prime.
Here’s some pix taken ~40 miles north of me:
http://www.previewgallery.com/reprints.php?pid=abc123photography&eid=northern_lights_&cid=northern_lights_over_lake_marinuka
Brian
When you live in the North, you see things like this all the time. I really miss it.
This photo was taken by Ron Rose, a photographer from the NWT. It looks enhanced, but I can assure you, that’s the sort of lights I used to see very often. The usual colours around Yellowknife are green, pale blue, pink, and white. I’ve only ever seen red once, living in northern (to most of you) Canada for 31 years until relocating to Maryland.
Oh, I’m jealous.
Did anyone see Lord Asriel?
No, but I looked
Another Northerner checking in. Yup, they were gorgeous last night, and they were up early enough that even my Mom got to see them.
We also woke up to about 1/2 inch of snow this morning.
It’s winter. That was quick!
Mr. S said it was the best display he’d seen in his entire 49 years. You should have heard him oohing and ahhing. The only other time I’ve heard him make noises like that was when his privates were being attended to.
We saw them on the way home from grocery shopping last night, around 6 pm CST. We pulled over immediately to gawk, and I tried to call a friend who wants us to call her when we see them, but my phone was dead, so we rushed home. After calling her, we stood out in the field across the road freezing and taking it all in. Pink, green, huge shimmering curtains, across the whole northern sky, including directly overhead. Around 9:30 we went out again and the show had started up again. This time we lay on the ground in our own yard and watched the show directly overhead. It even stretched well into the southern sky.
This is why we live out in the sticks. 