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Very beautiful site for those of you who haven't witnessed the Northern Lights this past week.



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wow thats beutiful, id love to be able to see the northern lights one day

I witnessed the Northern Lights one rainy summers light just over a year ago. It was beautiful, purples and blues and greens and yellows. I stood in a big field watching for hours. Then the rainstorm hit, and it wasn't so pretty after that.

Awesome pictures.

I am sorry you haven't seen them before, would you like to----->Northern Lights just for you.
Just go to the channels, and click the one that says National News, then click more. There you will find the northern light for your likeing. Hope you like them as much as we do here in Minnesota.

I saw one yesterday, they were amazing, the sky was clear i could see the constellation of Orion, it was simply amazing, to see a starlite night on a metropolitan backround.

here's a pic i took, i was kinda off focus but the battery was low and it was cold.
I completely filed the horizon.!

That's still a good picture. Very nice.

The 'waves' in the Auora Boreallis are what i like the most. Gives the lights a short of shimmering effect, like fish swimming in a shallow reef.

WOW! that's a good picture. LIKES ALOT. LOL

Nice pics, guys. I have not seen an auora for ten years or more. I would like to see the lights again someday but I live too far south. So for now I rely on your pics. Keep them comming.

My neighbour called me outside to look at it, and apparently he was seeing blues and reds and such, but when I go outside I couldn't see anything, or very little of it. Do you know if I could still see it, and when (Cause I don't feel like standing in the cold for hours looking for it) or was it just a showing for this week?

It was supposed to be showing for a couple days.

How far north do you have to be before you can see the lights? my friend is taking me to toronto next spring, would i be able to see them from there and do they only come certain times of the year?

I saw them for the first time in my life early Monday morning (2:30am EST) Why it was amazing to me was I saw them in the city. I was awestuck.


***Firefemme I live in Toronto thats where I saw them. Usually there is too much light pollution to see them here.

ah, that's what I figured, with 5 million people and all. but if you go out of the city you can see them?

1 hour north and you can see them I've heard

I live in Ottawa, which is what Dot, 5 hours drive northeast of Toronto?

I've seen them twice in my 5 years here. Once in the city, a beautiful green right above. And one about 45 mins north of the city in the middle of the woods, which is what i explained above.

do they only come at certain times of the year?

My sister said that at about 11pm last night she saw the Southern Lights. We aren't acutally meant to get them so it's amazing. It was only in the South Island, not the North Island (she's at university down there).

I'm so jealous of her and all of you that you get to see such a brilliant thing. it's one of the things I want to see at least once in my life.



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We do get the Aurora Australis down here occasionally PH . Not often enough , I've only seen them once before but I'll be out tonight , If the cloud clears

I used to love to watch the northern lights...but since i live so close to the artic circle now i see them all the time. i think im the only one here who still stops to look at them.
the only problem, is its soooo cold you never get to stay out watching them very long.
definitely something every one must see.

Well i really dont know sorry!

Yes it is Burnside. I am envious you've seen them twice.

I heard on the news that they were visible as far south as Oklahoma and depending on weather conditions they will be frequently visible for 3 weeks.

I've been looking for them everynight since.

I seen um last week. Beautiful green colour

Whoa, Oklahoma? I live 2 hours south of OK and have family there and such, they've never seen them....which takes me back to my original question, can the lights only be seen at certain times of the year?

I don't recall ever seeing them farther south than wyoming.
lol but up in alaska you get to see them all winter. and since its dark most of the time well you see them alot.
they are by far the best here.

Up here in the north nothern lights are kinda easy to see. Still, I know people that live in Finland for 14 years and still haven't seen. On the other hand, I live here for 2 years and I have seen them in various occasions. The most spectacular one was last winter, when the sky was filled from one side to the other with mostly green flashes, but also pink and bluish..It was just amazing.

this one is from last week or so and was taken in North CAROLINA!!

That looks amazing! Where exactly in North Carolina is that?

Cool! The shooting star looks like a hole...

Well, I live in North Eastern Oregon, and we have had them here the last week. They come when there are alot of Solar activities... (flares and such) This last week the activity has been so great that the Northern Lights have been visible in Oregon! Way cool!

Those pictures are nothing compared to the one I saw in Thunder Bay when I was younger...

Seriously? I've visited Washington and Oregon 3 times a year for the last decade because my father lives there, and I've never seen them...I've been there like 3-4 weeks at a time in December and January too...

They're very rare, many people go their whole lives in my city and never see them. I've seen them twice in 6 years.

burnsey, you missed a good show, i live way out the east end of ottawa and was able to see them sunday the 7th, and the following monday and tuesday. it was one of the best show's i've ever seen and i have seen some good sessions of northern lights.
sunday was best, it seemed to right out of the sky above us and then stream down into the northern shy, aqua blue and green,
too bad you missed it.

Yeah i definately missed that.

Weird. I live in the east end too. You're in Orleans? I'm just off downtown. The light pollution this close to town doens't help viewing the lights.

yes, the end of the earth, no mans land, orleans.

My ex lives in Orleans. Goes to Gloucester HS. Crazy nuthead.