Northern Lights.

[SirDonB]

wonder if I might have a chance to see them out here in upstate NY, but with all the city light around, I am doubting it... I got to see the Northern lights when I was stationed in Norway a hundred miles south of the arctic circle back in 1999... it was an awesome experience and I have been kicking myself for not having a camera with me at the time to get pictures.

 

[Dave]

Nice. Is guardsman pass a decent option for north facing sky? I've never gone past silver lake in big cottonwood, so not sure views are up there along the road.

Darker skies will be better. You don't get much of that at Guardsman as there's a ton of Salt Lake light pollution. The other problem is your view to the north isn't very clear.

@ashergrey Never been to Fehr Lake. When you say short walk from the highway, how short are you talking?

Less than a mile. Look at it on a map... there's a trail that leaves just south of the turn-off for Mirror Lake.

 

[Nick]

12:33 and no sign of color here at pineview. I'll be doing the rest of my sky watching horizontally on the floor of the boat. Or in other words, I give up.

 

[DrNed]

12:33 and no sign of color here at pineview. I'll be doing the rest of my sky watching horizontally on the floor of the boat. Or in other words, I give up.

Disappointing to hear. As has become my habit I fell asleep in the early evening. Did anyone have better results?

 

[pixie1339]

Bummer that you didn't see any color Nick. I would also be curious to hear if anyone else had any luck.

 

[Dave]

Moonrise and cloud haze obscured my view so I didn't see jack.

 

[pixie1339]

Damn! I read an article this morning that said there's a decent chance of seeing it Saturday night, as well. It suggested that the best time would be between sunset and 10:00, when the moon gets really bright. I'm on my way up to Ibantik Lake for the night. If I see anything tonight I'll be posting about it tomorrow.

 

[DrNed]

It appears as though New England had some great light

 

[SirDonB]

I was on my way home from work last night and didn't see anything myself.

 

[andyjaggy]

I haven't heard of anyone from Utah being able to see them.

 

[pixie1339]

No luck at Ibantik Lake last night.

 

[Dave]

So aurora borealis was a bust, but I did come away with some interesting light painting shots.

Secret of the Ooze by ashergrey, on Flickr

Shorelands by ashergrey, on Flickr

 

[Duke]

I've been in Scandinavia and Alaska and never saw the aurora. However, one night while in graduate school at USU I drug myself home after an entire night of doing research in the lab or studying or whatever it was and did not even know what time it was. I saw the sun rising and decided to lay on the car windshield and watch for a bit. After a while I went inside and was too tired to connect that no sun should have been rising at 3:30 am. The next day there were reports that the aurora was visible as far south as TX or something like that. I wish I had clued in better and realized what I was watching but I never even considered that it might be anything other than the sunrise. I was a bit dazed at the time I guess. School punch-drunk. This was sometime around 90 or 92 ish.

 

[Duke]

@ashergrey it was worth it for you as those are great shots.

 

[Dave]

Thanks! It's always a crap shoot for me once the sun goes down.

 

[andyjaggy]

http://www.nj.com/weather/index.ssf...n_lights_in_nj_might_be_possible_tonight.html

There might be another chance to see the northern lights tonight. Probably a pretty slim chance but you might get lucky.

 

[Aldaron]

We're going to Iceland soon for vacation. This news makes me anxious because I want it to happen while we're there!

 

[Nick]

So jealous. I'll have my camera pointed to the sky this weekend. Hopefully it hangs on and creeps down toward Arizona. Yeah... I know...

 

[WasatchWill]

Beautiful pic of Fehr, @ashergrey. Just plain beautiful.