Nice green and red sky lights - northern lights

[underseasurveyor]

Here in northwest Iowa. Cool:smoke:

[Eurobabe]

1. take a picture for us poor folk trapped in red states

below PA? purty please?

[Massacure]

2. I don't see them in Wisconsin.

:(

[TheMightyFavog]

4. Where are you?

I saw a nice green Aurora an my way back from JR Liquor in Stevens Point.

Damn, I miss my rural home, with soo little light pollution... :(

[goddess40]

8. We're in Wausau and we can see them from in town

Look straight up in the air. The streaks of light are all meeting!

Anyone ever read His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman? It's about the northern lights. In the US the first book is called The Golden Compass and in England it's Northern Lights. Great book and an outstanding book on tape.

[Diana52]

3. But, of course!

The ARE Northern Lights!

[Sallyrat]

6. North Carolina Northern Skys

Are a red glow.......thought Seymour Johnson AFB had been hit.....near Goldsboro and found out it was the Northern Lights...

[havocmom]

5. Here is a cool NOAA site for keeping an eye on when to go looking up

http://sec.noaa.gov/pmap/index.html

Just got my SpaceWeather.com email. Expect more lights for a few nights:

"Big sunspot 696 unleashed an X-class solar flare on Sunday, Nov. 7th, and probably hurled another coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. Solar wind conditions are favorable for a geomagnetic storm now (late Nov. 7th)and may become even more so when the CME arrives. Sky watchers: be alert for auroras on Nov. 7th, 8th and 9th. The best time to look is usually around local midnight."

[snacker]

7. I can see them here in NE Wisconsin

They are beautiful tonight.

[underseasurveyor]

9. Wow I've never seen the sky dance like that before.

That is awesome :bounce: What I've witnessed before was much more subdued, more like hanging clouds of green or red. Not the fingers and streaks of colored light flashing across the sky like tonight.

I am mesmerized and awed :wow: