# Northern Lights

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-lights/273596>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 8, 2004, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-lights/273596 "2004-11-08T05:04:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-lights/273596/41 "2004-11-11T03:56:39Z")

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I’ve never seen any northern lights.

I’m too close to the city to really be able to see anything, I guess. Oh well.

I’ll just have to go work up in NWT for a while to get a good look.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-lights/273596/42 "2004-11-11T04:55:46Z")

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> [@Antigen](#):
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> Location: Maury Al

The northern lights do [occasionally get down that far](http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast25apr_1m.htm):

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> Keith Cooley captured this photo of the planets against a backdrop of reddish-colored Northern Lights from his backyard in Athens Alabama on April 6, 2000.  
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> Reports poured in from as far south as Florida and as far west as Utah.

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**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-lights/273596/43 "2004-11-11T06:27:49Z")

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You can get alerts about astronomical stuff at [http://spaceweather.com/](http://spaceweather.com/) by email. Very cool, even if we were socked in by fog the night they were supposed to be great.

I remember the northern lights in Alaska and northern BC and they were _awesome._

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**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-lights/273596/44 "2004-11-11T21:54:07Z")

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> [@Squink](#):
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> The northern lights do [occasionally get down that far](http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast25apr_1m.htm):

Actually, I’m up just a _teensy_ bit further north than that. “Maury Al” is my own little twist on “Montreal.” Sorry about the confusion!

But, even being as near to the polar latitudes as I am, I haven’t ever seen the Aurora Borealis.

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**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/northern-lights/273596/45 "2004-11-12T04:48:23Z")

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**There’s got to be some advantages to living up north.** 😉

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