Northern Lights

[olbriar]

I understand that some of the Northern part of Kansas is being treated to a visual exposure to the Northern Lights. Friends in the KC area shared some pictures they captured Friday night. I've always wanted to see the lights and they media spoke like it was possible that the lights would be visible using a long exposure camera capture in the Southern part of the state tonight. I went out and took a few shots of the sky... no luck. Maybe if I was North of Wichita instead of South I would have a darker sky and a better chance of a picture. I did see some very cool pictures posted on another forum and thought we should have a place to share some pics too. If you are lucky enough to get a few shots, pleas post them here. I really would love to see them. The lights fascinate me!

 

[AugieTN]

I saw the Northern Lights many years ago in Canada on a fishing trip. They almost seem kind of spooky when you first see them.

I'm currently in southern Tennessee and haven't seen then this far south.

 

[Clementine_3]

I'm in upstate NY and had a ton of clouds in my 'hood last night, when I checked I saw nothing but areas just a few miles away had great views. So maddening! I'm going to see if there is anything real early this morning before sunrise. Tomorrow may be semi-promising too.

I've been using My Aurora Forecast app for a long while, it's really good but I live just below 'OK, they're really coming' and squarely in 'you live in a cloud haven area so good luck!' region. Ugh.

A long lot of years ago there were some that I did see, totally awesome experience.

 

[olbriar]

I did stuff like the Northern Lights. It's sort of a bucket list thing for me. I had hopes of capturing something with a time exposure with my phone but nope. I hope someone gets a pic or two to share.

 

[Dannydet]

The city of South Haven, MI had some amazing views

 

[olbriar]

Just wow!

 

[ocnbrze]

we are supposed to see them here in LA. but at night a thick marine layer creeps in..... at least the last ccouple of days it has been this way. supposedly you can head out towards the desert and you should have a good shot at seeing it.

 

[The_Chief]

A friend of ours lives up on the mountain (we're at the foot of it) - her neighbor got these photos Friday night. Apparently it was such a geomagnetic tsunami from the sun that people as far south as Hawaii and Jamaica saw it!

 

[Milo Williamson]

Here is my aftermath of the Auora of about an hour afterwards, left the sky pink and blue, with the clouds having like a rolling effect..

 

[Hadron]

It was visible throughout the UK on Friday night, not so much the next couple of days. But it looked far more spectacular through a camera than by eye, so don't assume all of the pictures posted to the web represent what people actually experienced (it was still cool to see it, but it was best viewed through a phone or camera).

(The forum software is telling me that even a reduced-size image is too large to post, so can't show examples).

 

[Steven58]

What we saw

 

[PitCarver]

My daughter, that lives roughly 35 miles from us, got to see some pinks and purple colors on Friday night. Only thing that we got were 2 power outages in 12 hours from the solar flares.

 

[olbriar]

Your pictures are great @Steven58 Thanks for sharing!!

 

[Steven58]

It was awesome, brother.