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Anyone else get to see the aurora borealis last night? (Original Post) Docreed2003 May 11 OP
No, but my cousin who lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia Glorfindel May 11 #1
I can't remember ever seeing them either! Docreed2003 May 11 #7
Nice. greatauntoftriplets May 11 #2
I feel like a dope! I forgot to look! 🦧 Tanuki May 11 #3
Show still on for Saturday night! Dear_Prudence May 11 #5
Tonight we may have another chance! Docreed2003 May 11 #9
I drove halfway to Duluth from Minneapolis Ocelot II May 11 #4
I looked but never saw anything. Weird. IrishAfricanAmerican May 11 #6
Try taking a photo brakester May 11 #10
Yeah, I saw that after the fact. IrishAfricanAmerican May 11 #15
Yes, in western NC, between 10:30 and 11 eastern. Greens and reds NewHendoLib May 11 #8
Very nice, indeed. usonian May 11 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author Thunderbeast May 11 #12
Talk about bad timing... Thunderbeast May 11 #13
Friends saw it here in San Diego's East County! Liberty Belle May 11 #14
Sometime about 1947-1948 I saw them, watrwefitinfor May 11 #16
What a beautiful memory! Docreed2003 May 11 #17
I saw them from ship when I was deployed as well. IrishAfricanAmerican May 11 #18
Totally bummed I missed it drmeow May 11 #19

Glorfindel

(9,756 posts)
1. No, but my cousin who lives in Stone Mountain, Georgia
Sat May 11, 2024, 02:37 PM
May 11

posted a photo on Facebook this morning that looks very much like your picture.
I can't ever remember the northern lights being seen this far south before. I'm glad you got to see it, and thanks for sharing your photo.

IrishAfricanAmerican

(3,832 posts)
15. Yeah, I saw that after the fact.
Sat May 11, 2024, 05:09 PM
May 11

I took my phone out after I saw someone post but I didn't realize you had to actually take a picture. I didn't see anything on the screen. Unfortunately, they're not forecasting it being this far south tonight

usonian

(10,091 posts)
11. Very nice, indeed.
Sat May 11, 2024, 04:10 PM
May 11

I kicked up the brightness of the photo I took Friday night, just to show detail.
The "original" is how it looked to the eyeball.
Very dim, but looking a tad brighter than the usual night sky.
Central CA, so I wasn't expecting any light show at all.

https://democraticunderground.com/100218940266

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Thunderbeast

(3,433 posts)
13. Talk about bad timing...
Sat May 11, 2024, 04:20 PM
May 11

We were visiting Arctic Norway (71° North) ten days ago with clear weather...

DAMN!

Liberty Belle

(9,543 posts)
14. Friends saw it here in San Diego's East County!
Sat May 11, 2024, 05:06 PM
May 11

On Mt. Laguna and nearby, where it's dark.

It was NOT forecast to get this far south in Califiornia -- but at least a dozen friends posted pics on FB, so it's real.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=749167860751441&set=pcb.749168057418088

watrwefitinfor

(1,401 posts)
16. Sometime about 1947-1948 I saw them,
Sat May 11, 2024, 06:58 PM
May 11

here in northeastern South Carolina. I was a very little girl about four or five when my grandfather took me out to the back yard and showed me and explained this most brilliant light show in the distance, across the fields and forests. It was mostly in reds, and didn't reach so high into the sky as your photo. But I remember watching it so full of first fear, then of awe.

Granddaddy sat beside me on the ground and told me about seeing them from the ship he was on either going to or coming home from France and WWI. And how much more brilliant and clear they were on out on the ocean.

I have read recently that the reds are more visible than the other colors the further away from them you get. Thus all the reds we get in the south, when we are fortunate enough to see them.

Hazy here last night. I'll try again tonight.

Wat

drmeow

(5,051 posts)
19. Totally bummed I missed it
Sat May 11, 2024, 10:48 PM
May 11

my neighbors saw it but by the time I got to somewhere without trees blocking my view it was gone

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