Northern Lights visible for most of US right now!

[Johnny2X2X]

Go look outside. From South Carolina to Iowa. I am in Michigan.

[LunaSea]

1. Yep, red glow and banding visible in southern Alabama

Never heard of it being visible here. Just got pics from my sister currently in Florida.
Astonishing.


This from just north of Montgomery.

Another from a friend-

[FreeState]

2. Nothing here yet

About 15 miles north of the Mexican boarder.

[RainCaster]

3. Nothing here, west of Seattle

[Tree Lady]

4. I don't see anything in Oregon yet either

[usonian]

5. What's west of Seattle? A boat?

⛵️

[ZZenith]

7. The entirety of the Olympic Peninsula?

[usonian]

9. Sorry for the geography goof.

I got a great sunset in central CA and am waiting on any aurora. Been a busy evening. More to come.

There are some pics here.

https://democraticunderground.com/123210619

I'm getting anxious because I got an aurora here a couple of solar storms ago and would like another.

Hope you get some Northern Lights.

[ZZenith]

14. All good!

[2naSalit]

6. It's kind of faint...

Last time I checked, three minutes ago. Western Montana.

[electric_blue68]

8. Nothing here in NYC. Used my phone camera; either not happening, or is happening - my view isn't north enough :(

The phone camera is more sensitive than human eyes

I will be soooo jelli if other NYC'rs see them.
Excrpt my sis I told her to take pics. She might may able to get her smartphone to the right angle in the right direction. And she's west of me near the Hudson River in a darker part of NYC.

[LeftInTX]

10. Nada in South Texas. Even did the slow shutter speed

[Johnny2X2X]

11. Pretty amazing.

[Cha]

16. That's beautiful.. TY! Where is that?

[electric_blue68]

21. So lovely! Ty

[Attilatheblond]

12. Hung my hammock up now that it's dry and the 'skitters are gone.

If I could just get the scaredy cat neighbors* to douse the #@#)_$() searchlights they have on in their (and everybody around them) back yard, maybe I might see some pretties in the sky.

*Cannot, for the life of me, fathom how two people who are so sure that Jesus & his daddy are always protecting them can be so afraid of the dark. Oh, yeah, it started when that load car dropped off a couple brown people in our 'hood as the driver tried to avoid getting arrested for trafficking a year and a half ago.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

15. My mom had a blinding porchlight

She kept a million watt lightbulb in there and it was at near eye level right outside the door. I almost tripped on the porch stairs I dunno how many times from that light.

When she moved to stay at her place in Virginia that damn porch light was one of the first things to go. I got a gentle wattage stained glass colored lightbulb. I could see going outside and it looked pretty too.
Neighbors even complimented it. They had a million watt lighthouse level light on thier garage. However the sensitivity of the thing was not ridiculous so if a cat walked by it stayed off.

Both the garage and the blinding porch light it was a miracle I could see at all those lights left a flash camera like burn on my retina if I looked at them.

[Attilatheblond]

19. Yeah, bright outside lites just blind you. Neighbor's front lights must drive the people across the stree nuts

Bedrooms in the front of their house, and blinding light all the time.

I changed the fixtures on the front of our garage and porch to fixtures with solid shades on top, so the light goes DOWN not up and out. Works better, makes it easy to see the ground where the snakes and javelinas might be lurking. LOL

Where we live, the astronomers keep trying to fight light pollution. A losing battle, I fear. Used to love watching the auroras when I lived in the most remote town in Montana. Used to watch the sky for the NORAD flights WAY WAY up in the sky, flying a grid.

[ret5hd]

18. Not the Jesus they were promised!

[Talitha]

22. "scaredy cat neighbors"

This brings back childhood memories of the woman next door.
We called her "Our Lady of the Perpetual Porch Light".

[doc03]

13. It is clear in Ohio I see nothing. nt

[usonian]

17. Repost from Weather Watchers. Central CA, Sierra Foothills.

I couldn't see it with the unaided eye, but the camera seems to have gotten it.



20mm f/1.8 at 4 seconds, ISO 1000
Big Dipper at bottom left.
Image hosting and size reduction lose a bunch of image quality, Oh well.
Still a "catch" for this latitude, 37.5 degrees North.

The streaks are aircraft, no doubt. This is a busy air lane. I "healed" one out with its "flashenlights"
A house on the next ridge is a reference point.

[canetoad]

20. I've just checked the Southern Aurora service

visible here - I'm out to take pix. Will report back

[Johnny2X2X]

23. It was pretty dramatic

The only time I remember them more clearly was in about 1993 during the Winter where there were solar storms for 2 weeks in a row that were visible non stop as soon as it started to get dark. You could even see the well defined green waves with the naked eye when it wasn't even totally dark yet.

[Talitha]

24. Northcentral WI here....

It was visible just after twilight, despite the Moon. I went out again later and saw rose-tinted flickers travelling from the Northern horizon up to the Zenith - and a rosey tinted patch right next to the Moon. That was only the second time in my 25+ years of Aurora watching that I'd seen the Lights that far south. The dynamic action and visually detectable structure was rising up from the East and West, meeting at the Zenith. I went inside at about 10pm.

At 1:30 in the morning the Aurora was so bright it woke me up - I thought it was Dawn!! Through my south-facing window I saw bright rose tinted 'auroral sheets' flickering towards the South.

What a helluva storm!