Northern Lights?
Sep 15th 2011, 6:41 pm
#31
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Re: Northern Lights?
you really need to be lucky with the conditions. i'm in Nunavut - been here for 3 weeks and it's been cloudy every night. really hoping we get some clear skies while i'm here! i've seen aurora plenty of times before in far northern Quebec and on the Hudson Bay shore of Ontario, but never seen any really good "curtains" with multiple colours.
Sep 18th 2011, 12:26 am
#32
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Re: Northern Lights?
We saw them spectacularly one time in Edmonton, it must have been hmm...1997-98, winter. Huge curtains and a vortex/swirl of pinks and reds right above our backyard. It was actually kinda eerie. We were standing there, in the snow, listening to this crackling noise and looking up at the circle moving right above us. I could totally understand in that moment why many of my Cree friends don't look on them as harbingers of good tidings...
I also saw them in summer once...2003. Late June, early July, out in the country west of Edmonton. Green curtains, spectacular. Obviously it was after midnight for it to be dark enough to see them, but it was the only time I recall seeing them in summertime.
I also saw them in summer once...2003. Late June, early July, out in the country west of Edmonton. Green curtains, spectacular. Obviously it was after midnight for it to be dark enough to see them, but it was the only time I recall seeing them in summertime.
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Sep 28th 2011, 5:54 am
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Re: Northern Lights?
Very active over Edmonton this evening!
Sep 28th 2011, 1:56 pm
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Re: Northern Lights?
Yep, OH half came into the bedroom at around 11:30pm (he was still doing stuff outside, quietly so as not to disturb neighbours) and said, those green things are in the sky again. We briefly discussed going somewhere dark and quickly realised we were to tired to do anything crazy like that, he said this morning that they were really bright last night.
Sep 30th 2011, 5:29 am
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We managed to get a few photo's, it wasn't as good as the light show the other week there, but still pretty fantastic.
Sep 30th 2011, 5:48 am
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Wow, those are fantastic! I miss seeing them. Apparently we're in an upswing of aurora australis activity here, peaking in 2013 so I hope I get to see something similar to what we'd usually have in Edmonton.
Oct 3rd 2011, 4:56 am
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Re: Northern Lights?
My younger son saw them that night. He was incredibly moved at how beautiful they were ... the next day he received not one but THREE job offers, having been hunting all summer with narry a nibble. He now feels that the Aurora has some deep significance for him personally, and confided that he'd like to call his first daughter by that name.
He is 20 years old has not even a girlfriend at present. Bless him
He is 20 years old has not even a girlfriend at present. Bless him
